Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-01
Saint Narg's Beacon.
Thoughts for the Thoughtful.

charity.
Its way of suffering is the witness
which soul bears to itself.
1t is not so much the infinite as
the beautiful that we yearn for.
Without faith man can do noth-N
ing. But faith can stife allsciecne.
BY despising himself too much a
man comes to be worthy of his own
contempt.
Austerity in woman is sometimes
the accompaniment of rare power
of loving.
The philosopher is like man
fasting in the midst of universal
intoxication.
1t is vulgar to be angry on ones
own account; we ought only to be
angry for great causes.
We read satirical books, but we
only love and cling to the books in
which there is heart.
Sorrow, il should be remem bered,
is within US, and not in the things
about us, so is it with JOY.
Humble, constant, voluntary self
sacrifice, this is what constitutes
the true dignity of man.
II is not being or the limits Of
being which weighs upon us it is
evil in US and without us.
If we begin by overrating the be-
ing we love, we shall end by treat
ing it with wholesale injustice.
Christianity does not consist in a
melancholy and morose life, but in
being good and smiable to every
body.
The mind must have for ballast
the clear conception Of duty, if it
is not to auctuate between levity
and despair.
In every loving woman there is a
priestess of the pasta pious guar
dian Of some affection, Of which the
object has disappeared.
Mems wills are always in advance
of their intelligence, their desires
ahead Of their will, and accident
the source Of their desires.
There is only one way of not hat
ing those who do us wrong, and
that is by doing them good anger
is best conquered by kindness.
A philosophic truth does not be-
come popular until some eloquent
soul has humanized it or some gifted
personality has translated and EN-.
bodied it.
Intellectuaism may be described
as an intoxication conscious Of itself;
the moral energy which replaces it,
on the other hand represents a state
Of fast, a famine and a sleepless
thirst.
There is no real elevation of mind
in a contempt of little things. 1t
is, on the contrary, from too mar
row views that we consider those
things of little importance which
have, in fact, serious consequences.
1t is the habitual thought that
frames itself into our life. 1t af-
fects US even more than our init
mate social relations do. Our con-
fidential friends have not so much
to DIN shaping our lives as thoughts
have which we harbor.
Duty is what upholds everything;
so that those who humbly and I'M
obtrusively fulfill it, and set good
example thereby, are the salvation
and the sustenance of this brilliant
world, which knows nothing about
them.
For woman love is the supreme
authority-that which judges the
rest and decides what is good or
evil. For a man love is subordi-
nate to right. 1t is a great pas
sion, but it is not the source of or
der, the synonym of reason, the
criterion of excellence.
Life is so full of interests, so sa-
lent in its records Of the past, so
vital in its problems for the future,
so rich in its privileges, so warm n
its affections, that no one who lives
it wisely and well will ever be con-
tinuouslY weary of it, except per-
haps, in few cases of permanent
intense physical suffering.
The most careful searcher after