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Show Aphorisms. Truth is the sum of intelligence. - Vanvenarques Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. --Lamartine. The world is satisfied with words; few care to dive beneath the surface, --Pascal, There are passages in Shakespeare that burst upon the mind like splendor from Heaven, --Carlyle. If we should leave out of conversation scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity - what silence! Mme. Baoni[?]. Music and flowers are evangels of purity and faith, redolent of God, if we but unlock our hearts to their ministry. The misanthropist is to be pitied when his despair proceeds from an ardent love for the good, the beautiful and the true, --George Sand. Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its effort in a maze of inconsistencies. Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, which is the pride of utmost age to recover.-John Ruskin. The speculative observer of life wonders why these low classes should be called the "lower," which have furnished the world with its examples and teachers, with a Socrates, & Luther, a Burns, a Garrison. |
