Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-13
Random Gems.

Wind up your conduct, like watch, ev-
cry day, examining minutely whether you
are ''fast," or 'slow"
A man had better have all the aff1ictions
of all the afflicted, than be given up TO a
repining, grumbling heart.
Keep your store ofsmiles and your kind
est thoughts for home, give to the world
only those which are to spare.
Ignorance and conceit are two of the
worst qualities to combat. II is easier to
dispute with statesman than with block
head.
Evry man has known mothers tender
ness; but all have not, in after life, watched
it descending upon children like blessing
from on high.
EQUAL is the government of heaven in
allotting pleasures among men, and just is
the everlasting law that hath welded hap
piness to virtue.
There is a limit to enjoyment, though
the sources of wealth be boundless, and the
choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring
of moderation.
Law hath dominion over all things, over
universal mind and matter, for there are
reciprocinies of right and justice which no
creature can gainsay.
A good conscience Is better than two
witnesses; it will consume your grief as the
sun dissolves ice. 1t is spring when you
are thirsty-a staff when you are weary
screen when the sun burns pillow
in death.
A French writer has said that to dream
gloriously, you must act gloriously when
awake and to bring angels down to hold
converse with you in your sleep, you must
labor in the cause of virtue during the day.
1t is not what we earn, but what we
save, that makes us rich. 1t is not what
we, eat, but what we digest, that makes us
fat. 1t is not what we read, but what we
remember, that makes US learn. All this
is very simple, but it is worth remember
ing.
Many of our greatest men have sprung
from the humblest origin, as the lark whose
nest is nearest the ground scars nearest to
heaven. Narrow circumstances are the
most powerful stimulants to mental expan-
sion, and the early frowns of fortune are
the best securities for her final smiles.
Men may learn from example how mis-
taken is the idea that the possession of
power leads to independence, or enables
them to pursue their own will. If there is
any station in life in which we can do as
we please, it will be found much neares the
extreme of the beggar than that of the king
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Nothing casts denser cloud over the
mind than discomfort, rendering it more
occupied about the evil that disquiets it
than the means of removing it.
There is no such thing as forgetfulness
in its true sense. A thousand incidents
may, and will, interpose veil between our
present consciousness and the secret inscrip-
ton on the mind; but alike, whether veil
ed OF unveiled, the inscription remains for
evermore.
Didn't you guarantee, sir, that the horse
wouldn't shy before the the fire of an en-
emy?" "No more he won't. Tisn't till
after the fire that he shies."
Visitors at Niagara Falls will remember
staircase on the west side of Gotta Island
called '.Biddle Staircase" Some one asked
a friend why it was called that name
Because it acoamd up tie bank" was the
answer.
Some time ago, one of the churches in
Salem had misbehaving brother, up for
discipline, and was about to excommuni
cate him, him, whereupon the worlds peo-
pie held meeting outside, and voted not
to receive him, unless he should be return
ed in as good condition as when delivered
to the church!