Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1899-04-20
Saint Harg's Beacon.
THOUGHTS.


work withal, for those who will |;
and blessed are the horny hands Of
toil.-LowelI.
The web of our life 10 o mingled
yarn, good and i'll together on,
virtues would be proud il our faults
whipped them not orr crimes
would despair IL they we're not cher
ished BY our virtues. -"All's Well
That Ends WELL"
The artist must aim to produce
beauty and truth. Every genuine
work Of art has as much reason for
being a. the earth and sun.
The essential mission Of fiction
10 to sharpen our perceptions Of the
beauties OF nature and every-da,
human nature.
There 10 no greater unbelief thar
dependency.
10 she flower OF the field withou'
spirit? Does il appear in Q divin.
will, in Q creative thought which
preserves it aud gives it life and
existence? That 10 its soul, onls
il 10 silent in the flower while il
manifests itself in man By words.
Man wanders on earth like th.
stars in heaven. story Of Ger
man love.
Acquire government over your
ideas that they may come when
they are called, and depart when
they are hidden. DIR. Watts
Earnest men never think in vain.
though their thoughts may be err
rors. -Bulwer Lytton.
lEFINITY. Still, small voice OF
the level twilight behind purpl,
hills, or the scarlet arch of dawn
over the dark, troubl"usedged sea.
the emotion caused by ell open
ground or lines Of any spacious
kind against the sky behind which
there might be conceived the sea.
UN1TY.-Unity of spirits 10 part
ly in their sy mpathy and partly in
their giving and taking, and always
il their love. their inseperable de-
tendency on each Others being and
their essential and perfect depeD-
dency on their Creator.
REPosE-Repose is the special
and separate characteristic of the
eternal mind and power 1t is th.
81 am" Of the Creator to the 81
become" Of all creatures. Select
ed.
Frou the cnttsger's hearth or the
workshop Of the the artisan to the
palace or the arsenal, the first mer-
it, that which admits neither sub
stitute nor equivalent, is that every
thing is in it's place. Where this
charm is wanting, every other mer-
lt either loses it's name, or becomes
an additional ground of accusation
and regret. Coleridge.
The past and the future have q
certain conservation which the pres
emit has not. The mists Of memo
~ enchant the one. the glories Of
hope transfieure the other.
1t is easy enough to be good when
you are happy.
What q strange thing chance is ?
What wonderful things are born OF
pure accident? How near we get
to happiness -to fortune--to death
without knowing it. Had we hap
pened to have met such or such
persons-had we spoken q word
that was on our lips or in our
hearts, what a change it might have
made in our lives, how different all
might have heenl All I the might
have beens! How sad they are -
Having the trump 10 q matter of
chance. but being trump 10 al
ways in our power.
Pet WEAKNESSES I've all have
them.
Humor ana nonsense often cover
really deep enthusiastically W
Story. Conversations in s udio.
No man 10 lord of ANYTHING,
Though in and of him there be
much consisting,
Till he communicate bis parts to
otneTs
Nor doth he IN himself know them
for aUght
Till he behold them formed in the
appliance,
Where they re extended-which
like ar arch reverberates
The voice again, or like q gate OF
steel
Fronting the sun, receives and rem
ders back
His figure and his heat.
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