The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-01-27
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

cENoE AMI NONSENSE.
It is not at all meritorious in the
cork to float, nor blameworthy in the
lead to sink. When you see the lead
swimming, perhaps you have reason
as well as cause to praise it.
Nothing is more charming than
cheerful old age. Time holds mort
gage upon life. The best way to
avoid foreclosure is to keep up the in
terest.
1t is worth while to have been fool
isll with pounds, if we learn thereby
to become wise with pennies.
misunderstanding and misfortune
are the rails that keep the train of
truth on the track of success.
There is no such thing as absolute
evil-no place in all the universe
where through some chink, be it ever
s,s small the lioht of rioht does not
twinkle in.
l had all of it; l gave it to my
friend; he took it all and kept it
yet I lost none. He had it, and l
had it, and yet there were not two,
but one, which, though doubled, was
not increased. Mathematically this
is impossible but logically it is inev-
liable, for the thing is knowledge.
I gave it; she returned it there
there was one only; yet each had all
and the whole, though divided, was
not diminished. 1t was love.
There was only one, yet to me sew
en-, and in reality three. There was
only one, yet every one had it, and
for each it was a different one. 1t
had no existence, yet it was wholly
unsubstantial, yet certain wholly
beautiful, yet only mathematical an
illusion, yet no delusion. 1t was the
rainbow.
Learn this lesson, ye practical peo-
p1e,-that there is region of Truth
beyond the frontiers of gross facts,
across the boundaries of the physical
and the sensuous. Call it spiritual,
psychical, or the fourth dimension of
space; it is region of reality, with
out knowledge of which the physi-
cal is inexplicable.
If 1 were not philosopher, it
would make me angry that some writ
ers could sell my nonsense for twen-
ty times what it is WORTH mean
what I get for it. Roses with other
names.
No one can make old mutton spring
lamb by serving it with mint sauce
but plenty try.
Wit is the lively youth of humor,
but pun is the idiocy of it.
It takes blind feol for luck the
timid are often the bravest the sus
picious are the foolable. What top
sy-turvy world, where the images are
inverted on the retina, and stay SO in
the mind. Who knows how to take
things, when even blackberries are
red YhsR Yhstth theyEs a5e tsf RFesn lbs BACK upon
mortals; but, as the civil citizen said
to another, Excuse my back" he is
agreeable all the way through"
They who consider system, order,
regularity, and discipline as tyranical
might as we'll grumble at the constan-
cy of the attraction of gravitation.
Gods gospel is like the attraction
of gravitation. No one knows wbat,
it is only that it keeps them upright.
Where it is easier to have the real
than the imitation, it is the worthless
that is valuable, the spurious curious.
People with good understanding
and poor application, with little learn
ing, are like fne mill with no grist.
The truth may be beyond our un-
derstanding, but it cannot be contrary
to it.
The religion of creed and custom
may be beautiful, and even satisfying,
but there is always doubt as to the
sure title to its possession. 1t is like
"a fair house built upon another
mans ground. l."
For man to act like woman fire.
quently requires a vast amount of
manliness.
Truth is the body Of all things
motive the soul of everything.
In a country house at which | Wis
it, the old, tall clock, which is sup
posed to regulate time for the estab-
lishment, is always some ten minutes
slow. l make no attempt to correct
it, for thereby I get that much extra
sleep in the morning, and the family
are punctual and early risers. 1t is
not only in country houses, nor with
time.pieces, that we fail to correct in
frmities that profit us.
l am not a believer in Mrs. Eddy's
christian Science" because l have
read her book ; but l know there is a
great deal in mind cure. For in
stance, before he failed in business a
friend of mine used to pay his doctor,
on the average, five hundred dollars
a year. Now that he can no longer
afford it, his wife and daughter-nrver
call in physician, and are the health
lest women I know.
1t is by means of discredited be-
liefs in the incredible that faith grows
sure of the infallible.
The pleasure which the contempla-
ton of one flower gives child would
food hell with joy.
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