Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-01-22

God bless them for their swarthy hands
Have wrought the glory of all lands,
TorR GooD HABITS. There are four
/ habits a wise man recommends to be es-
pntially necessary for the management of
qmporal concerns and these were pune.
naily, accuracy, steadiness and dispatch.
Without the first of these time is wasted
7ithout the second, mistakes most hurt
al to our own credit and inter
st, and that of others, may be CONS
nitled without the third, nothing can
be well doEe; and without the fourth, OPP
portunites of great advantages are lost,
which il is impossible 10 recall.
There are some who seem to think that
The golden age Of literature is past that
nothing modern is worthy of notice, and
that it is one of The vices Of the age that
gediscard so much the teachings of the
literary fathers. But the world of thought
Bexhaustless, ard we have only to pro-
duce a finer civilization than the world
haS ever secn,to secure, as its consummate
lower, literature of corresponding ex-
ceiIence.
Ifyou have great talents, industry will
improve them if moderate abilities, in.
dustry will supply their Deficiencies
NOthing is denied to we'll directed labor
pohiug is ever to be attained without it.
A man might frame and let loose star
10 roll in its orbit, and yet not have done
so memorable thing before God as lie
who let's 90 a golden orbed thought to
roll through the generations Of time.
Boldness is blind whereof it is still in
counsel, but good iE execution. For in
counsel it is good to see dangers in exe'
cution not to see them, except they be
very great
Religion is not thing which spend,
itself. 1t is like a river which wldens
continually, and is never SO broad or sc
deep as at its mouth, where it rolls into
The ocean Of eternity.
God has not taken so much pains in
naming, and furnishing, and adorninG
this world that they who were made by
hip to live in it should despise it.
The mind of man of genius is focus
which concentrates into one burning
beam the languid lights and fires of tel
thousand surrounding minds.
Time is like creditor who allows an
pie space to make up accounts, but is in
eSplorable at last.
81 have ore request to make Of you, my
dear Mr.. Grant" my dear widow,
will grant anything you say" "Well, sir
want 10 be Granted myself"
Lady Yarmouth asked Garrick one day
why Love was always represented as
child? He replied: Because Love nev
er reaches the age of wisdom and expert
ence."
The famous William Penn had a scape
grace relation. whom his punning con
lemporarios described as a pen that haC
BEEN "oiten cut, never mended."
None are so seldom found alone, anC
are so soon tired of their own company, "a
those coxcombs who are on the best term
with themselves.
To give moral subjects their true reliet
you require, as in the stereoscope, t
look through two glasses-that Of the in
telect and that of the heart.
III am afraid, sir, you are in a settle
Melancholy" "No madam, my melan
choly won't settle; it has too mucI
grounds"
A lie always needs q truth for a handl
10 1t. The worst lies are those whose han
die is true and whose blade is false,
He who is false to present duty breaks
thread in the loom, and will find the Aav
when he may have forgotten its cause.
The right thing in the wrong place is
love>letter written on mourning shee
Ofpaper.
An Irish stationer, after advertising
variety of articles, gives the followin,
Hoia bne: "To regular customers sci
Naiers gratis"
Does your dog take to the water |?
9ld gentleman to a rustic, who had
water spaniel following him. "Why, yes
MHthey put meal in it, was the reply
A reserved man is in continual confC
WIN the social part of his natue, an
even grudges himself the laugh int
winch he is sometimes betrayed.
An migrant to Port Natal, writin
nome to one of his friends, says: 1--WE ar
seIting along finely here, and have a
rsGy laid the foundation of q large
old maids are cross to the world il
,s9neral' because they have no husband
"eApend their i'll temper on.
oN now sadly true it is in these times, tha
n.t. sVt every man that dive. into the sea o
Naiimony brings up pearl"