Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-06-03
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Kennels of impuri;y.
Bigotry murders religion, TO brighten
fools with her ghosts.
Words are the daughters of the mind,
but actions are the sons of the soul.
Discovery often becomes crime, aud
doubt of established error, treason.
Don't rely too much on the torches Of
others; light one of your own.
Imputalions, however unjust, sully, if
they do not stain character.
Fine sense and exhalted sense, are not
half so valuable as common sense.
There are fe,c women whose merits
do not las, longer than their beauty.
Never scott at religion; it is not only
the proof of wicked heart, but low
breeding.
Be not nigardly of what costs thee
nothing-as courtesy, counsel and coun-
tenance.
Men and action, like objects Of sight,
have their points of perspective; some
mnst be seen at great distance.
To all men, and at all times, the bes,
friend is virtue. and the best companions
are high endeavors and honorable senti.
NETS.
Study to be more consistent in princi-
pie and more uniform in practice, and
your peace will be more unbroken.
Inviolable fidelity, good humor, and
complacency of temper, out live all the
charms of a fine face, and make the de
Gays of il invisible.
The faults of tie world can only be
learned bv long acquaintance with it,
and by suffering from that acquaintance.
Ore of the many penalties we pay for
longevity is the loss of those who have
been dear to us in our pilgrimage.
There is something charming in nature
and rural life. Ii is SO eternal, SO pure,
SO unalloyed by the maneuveriug, The
hypocrisy. the turmoil of soclalexistance.
Amidst the most adverse circumstances
there are still reasons for cheeriulness.-
So long as there are motives of gratitude,
there is cause for cheeriulness.
Somebody says there are two kinds of
family jars; into one you pu, your sweet.
meats, aud into the osher you pul-your
! foot.
All men need truth as they need water;
if wise men are as high ground where the
springs rise. ordinary men are the lower
grounds which their waters nourish.
A large share of wrong doing and
speaking of life, comes of the minds
| listlessness. That we should be listless,
however, about what is righ! shows how
degenerated we are.
Busy no, myself in searching into 9th
er mems lives, the errors of thine own
are more than thou canst answer for. II
| more concerns thee to mend one fault in
Thy self, than TO find out a thousand in
others.
Timidity is generally the frui! of sell
fshness; some men are so circumspect,
so sensitive of danger, of things that may
harm them, they know not how, that they
never can give, or say generous word
for another, without trembling.
When the immortal Sidney was told
,iila: he might save his life by telling a
falshood-by denying his hand writing
he said, '.When God hath brought ME
into dilemma. in which must assert a
lie or loose my life. he gives me clear
indication of my duty, which is TO pre-
fer death TO falsehood. -
Order in affairs is one Of the things on
which mans success in life most espe-
cially depends. The rules of the order
are mostly summed up in these Two pre-
cepis:
l. A place for every thing, and every
thing in its place.
Q. time for everything, and every
thing in its time.