Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — MAN. [ARTICLE]

MAN.

F—tie Thoughts Concerning Itan passes away; his name perishea from record and recollection; his hia> tory is as a tale that is told; and his very monument becomes a ruin. Washington Irving. To understand man, however, w* must look beyond the individual maQ| and his actions or interests, and view him in combination with his fellows.— Carlyle. Man is his own star, and that soul that can be honest is the only perfect man.— Beaumont and Fletcher. The scientific study of man is th< most difficult of all branches of knowl edge.— Oliver Wendell Hornes. The man of wisdom is the man of years.— Young. Man whose Heaven-erected faoe The smiles of love adorn, Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. --Burns. Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to bo. *» Goethe. A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, (Arecce, Home, Gaul, Britain, America lie folded already in the first man.—Emerson. Stteh is man! iq great affliction, he is •levated by the first minute; in great happiness, the most distant, sad one, oven while yet beneath the horizon, easts him down.— Richter. What a piece of work is man 1 How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty ! in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, a godl the beauty of the world 1 the paragon of animals 1 And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Shak • speare. When faith is lost, when honor dies, Then man is dead. — Whittier. Reading maketh a full man, confer* once a ready man, and writing an exact nun. — Bacon. A man that is temperate, generous, valiant, chaste, faithful, and honest, may, at the same time, have wit, humor, good-breeding, mirth, and gallantry; While he exerts these latter qualities twenty occasions might be invented to show ho is master of the other roble* virtues.— Steele. God, when heaven and earth He did create, Formed man, who should of both participate •i Sir J . Denham. Ven are hut children of a lanrer growth; Our appetite* are apt to change as theirs* And full as craving, too, and full as vaic -Dry den. Consider, msn; Weigh well thy frame; The king, the beggar, arc the same. Dust formed us ail. Each breathes his day. Then sinks into bis native clay -Go y. Nobler birth Of creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed np hr man. — Milton. The proverbial wisdom of the populace at gates, ,on roads, and in markets, hatructe the attentive ear of him who Mudiee flan more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.— Lavater. Man, though individually confined to h narrow spot on this globe, and limited, in his existence, to a few courses of the sun, has nevertheless an imagination which no despotism can control, and which unceasingly seeks for the author of his destiny through the isaaaensity of space aud the ever-csJMhf Assent of ages.— Colto*