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Collectanea.
eager desires seize them one after another , as they are alive with ardour , ancl athirst for knowledge ancl experience of the great scene of existence into which they are thrown—it is they who can guide , warm , inspire with the upward or the downward tendency , and cast through them on the future ages the blessings or the curses of good or evil . They are the gods and prophets of childhood . It is in them that confiding children hear the divinity speak ; it is on them that they depend in fullest faitli ;
ancl the maternal nature , engrafted on the original , grows in them stronger than all other powers of life . The mother in the child lives and acts anew : and numberless generations feel unconsciously the pressure of her hand . Happy are they who make that enduring pressure a beneficient one ; and , though themselves unknown to the world , send forth from the heaven of their hearts , poets and benefactors to all future time . "— W . Howitt .
' THE WORLD produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall ; for every drachm of pleasure a pound of pain ; for every inch of mirth an ell of moan ; and as the ivy twines round the oak , so does misery ancl misfortune encompass the heart of man . Felicity , pure and unalloyed felicity , is not a plant of earthly growth ; her gardens are the skies . "
Too FREQUENT REWARD OP PUBLIC BENEFACTORS . — " The man who becomes the servant of the public is often made to feel that he serves a fickle ancl an ungrateful master . He has often to prosecute his plans amidst the hesitancies of the timid , the coldness of the selfish , the neutralities of the indolent , and amidst the petty censoriousness to which the necessities of self-defence are always prompting such people . Over a large surface , moreover , he will be regarded as the invader of great interestsreal or imaginaryand will be misunderstood , calumniated
, , , wronged . If he would be stedfast to his purpose , he must not seem to see half the childishness , nor half the ingratitude , which will be betrayed in quarters whence better things might have been expected . It will be well if some of his worst enemies are not found in such connexions . In this necessity of forbearance , in this endurance of gross injustice , we see a part of the mulct which the man must be content to pay who would clo some great thing . "—Carlyle .
THE MORNING AND EVENING STAR OP LIFE . — " Nothing calls to mind the close of life to a noble-hearted young man so much as precisely the happiest-and fairest hours which he passes . Gottreich , in the midst of the united fragrance ancl beauty of the flowers of joy , even with the morning star of life above him , could not but think on the time when the same should appear to him as the evening star , warning him of sleep . Then said he to himself , * ' All is now so certain and so clear before me—the beauty and the holiness of lifethe splendour of
, the universe , the Creator , the dignity and the greatness of man ' s heart , the bright images of eternal truth , the whole starry firmament of ideas , which enlightens , instructs , ancl upholds man ! But when I am grown old , and in the obstruction of death , will not all that now rustles so bloomingly ancl livingly about me appear grey and dull ? Just when man is approaching that heaven which he has so long contemplated , Death holds the telescope inverted before his dim eye , ancl lets him see
only what is empty , distant , shadowy . But is this indeed true ? Shall I be more likely to be right when I only feel , and think , ancl hope with half a life , incapable of a keen glance or an intense sensation , or am 1 VOL . IV . R R
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Collectanea.
eager desires seize them one after another , as they are alive with ardour , ancl athirst for knowledge ancl experience of the great scene of existence into which they are thrown—it is they who can guide , warm , inspire with the upward or the downward tendency , and cast through them on the future ages the blessings or the curses of good or evil . They are the gods and prophets of childhood . It is in them that confiding children hear the divinity speak ; it is on them that they depend in fullest faitli ;
ancl the maternal nature , engrafted on the original , grows in them stronger than all other powers of life . The mother in the child lives and acts anew : and numberless generations feel unconsciously the pressure of her hand . Happy are they who make that enduring pressure a beneficient one ; and , though themselves unknown to the world , send forth from the heaven of their hearts , poets and benefactors to all future time . "— W . Howitt .
' THE WORLD produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall ; for every drachm of pleasure a pound of pain ; for every inch of mirth an ell of moan ; and as the ivy twines round the oak , so does misery ancl misfortune encompass the heart of man . Felicity , pure and unalloyed felicity , is not a plant of earthly growth ; her gardens are the skies . "
Too FREQUENT REWARD OP PUBLIC BENEFACTORS . — " The man who becomes the servant of the public is often made to feel that he serves a fickle ancl an ungrateful master . He has often to prosecute his plans amidst the hesitancies of the timid , the coldness of the selfish , the neutralities of the indolent , and amidst the petty censoriousness to which the necessities of self-defence are always prompting such people . Over a large surface , moreover , he will be regarded as the invader of great interestsreal or imaginaryand will be misunderstood , calumniated
, , , wronged . If he would be stedfast to his purpose , he must not seem to see half the childishness , nor half the ingratitude , which will be betrayed in quarters whence better things might have been expected . It will be well if some of his worst enemies are not found in such connexions . In this necessity of forbearance , in this endurance of gross injustice , we see a part of the mulct which the man must be content to pay who would clo some great thing . "—Carlyle .
THE MORNING AND EVENING STAR OP LIFE . — " Nothing calls to mind the close of life to a noble-hearted young man so much as precisely the happiest-and fairest hours which he passes . Gottreich , in the midst of the united fragrance ancl beauty of the flowers of joy , even with the morning star of life above him , could not but think on the time when the same should appear to him as the evening star , warning him of sleep . Then said he to himself , * ' All is now so certain and so clear before me—the beauty and the holiness of lifethe splendour of
, the universe , the Creator , the dignity and the greatness of man ' s heart , the bright images of eternal truth , the whole starry firmament of ideas , which enlightens , instructs , ancl upholds man ! But when I am grown old , and in the obstruction of death , will not all that now rustles so bloomingly ancl livingly about me appear grey and dull ? Just when man is approaching that heaven which he has so long contemplated , Death holds the telescope inverted before his dim eye , ancl lets him see
only what is empty , distant , shadowy . But is this indeed true ? Shall I be more likely to be right when I only feel , and think , ancl hope with half a life , incapable of a keen glance or an intense sensation , or am 1 VOL . IV . R R