SCINTILLATIONS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XVII, Issue 76, 1 April 1882, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Bb brief; for It, is with \yorda as with sun. beams; the more they are condensed the deeper they barn."— Southby. : ' Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth not discover vice,' but adversity doth best destroy virtue.— Bacon. Heaven me such a usage send, Not to bad from bad, but by bad mend. ■ Shakespeare. The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. Half the failures of life arise from pullingin one's horse as he is leaping. Friendship, when onoe determined, never swerves ; Weighs ere it trusts, but weighs not'ere it serves. ■ Hannah Moore. ' Things printed can never be stopped —they are like babies baptised ; they have a soul from that moment, and go on for ever.— George Meredith, j - He who >■. never know s pain knows but the half of pleasure.— Lord LytOne hath a.headache.one a cold/ < One 'has her neck m flannel tolled ; Aak the complaint and you are told, ! •: • -, -.- ■.. aiS t ;Next week'aj exa^iinatioii. One frets and. scolds, and laughs and ones, Another hotfe's, despairs, and sighs, ( | r ■ \ Next .week's examination, ' 'One leaves her boots," theri 1 grasps tliem tight.,. ;/ , ... ;. And studies morning, noon, and night, As though she took some strange delight .-'■ . In these examinations. : The books are marked, defaced, and . thumbed, The brain with midnight tasks benumbed ; Stil' all m that account is summed i Next week's examination. The most venomous animals are reptiles j ' the most spiteful among human beings rise no higher. — Hare.