The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-02-02
BITS OF WISDOM.
Passion never laughs

Passion never laughs.
Respect is the truest homage Of the
heart
If all the world S stage. and men
and women merely players, where are
the audience and orchestra to come
from p
Greatness of mind, consists no less
in capacity for making good use Of
small things than in ability to master
vast ones.
It is q character which constitutes
man. 1t is. character which directs rev.
olutions, influences assemblies and gov
ems crowds. Intellect (espa,it is moth
ing IN mparison with it.
VI hat . glorious world this would be if
all It's inhabitants could say. with Shak-
speare's shepard: 'sSir, I am a true
laborer; [ earn what I wear !; owe no
man hate; envy no mans happiness,
glad Of other mems good content with
my flock.
There IS something nobler IN life than
the heaping up of much money, the
building of many fine houses, the cloth
ing Of much fine purple, but there is
nothing nobler than the self abnegation
OF the man who voluntarily accepts life
time OF privation in the discharge of
what he conceives to be duty"
THE man who curves the channel of
laborious life, taps the springs Of tribu-
tary joys through every mile. Labor
brings men into sympathy with the
worthy men Of the world. TEN pfation
HES from the earnest laborer, and preys
upon the heart and brain of the idler.
To man out of employment there is
nothing 50 terrible as the impenetrabiI
itg of the close ranks of society around
him. Every business mans seems to have
found his place; each locks steps with
his Ieighbor, and the vast procession
moves on-the procession in whose SER
cIee ranks he can find no place.
| make it point Of morality never to
ind fault With another for his manners.
They may be awkward or graceful, blunt
or polite, polished or rustic, [ care not
what they are, if the man means. well
and acts from honest intentions, without
eecentrlclty or affection All men have
not the advantages of good society,"
as 1t IS Sc called, to school themselves in
all its fantastic rules and ceremonies. it
IS SO founded IN reason and good sense.
and not upon these artificial regulations.
Manners, ike conversation, should be
extemporaneous and not studied. T al
ways suspect man who meets me with
the same perpetual smile on his face,
the same congeqing of the body, and the
same premediated shake of the hand
Give me the hearty-it may be rough
grip Of the hand. the careless nod of
recognition, and when occasions requires.
the homely but welcome salution How
arc you, my old friend ?'
There IS but a breath of air and a beat
of the heart between this world and the
next. An IN the brief interval of pain
full and awful suspense while we feel that
death is with us, that we are powerless.
and lie all powerful, and the last pulsa
tons here is but the preludt of endless
life hereafter, we fall in the midst of
stunning calamity about to befall US, that
earth has no compromising good to the
severity of our loss. But there is no grief
without some beneicient provisions to
soften its intensities. When the good
and the lonely die, the memory of their
good deeds, ike the moonbeams on the
stormy sea. lights up your darkened
hearts. and lends to the surrounding
gloom beauty SO sal, so sweet, that we
would not, If we could, dispel the dark
ness that envirious US.
The following little paragraph contains
q whole volume of truth and suggestions.
and if We well studied and acted upon,
would prevent much unhappiness in this
world, and prove 4 most effectual remedy
for much that now exists: 1T is the
earliest thing in the world to be happy,
if men and women would only think SO.
Happiness is only another name for love;
for where love exists in a household
there happiness must also exist, even
though it has poverty for close COM
panion. Where love exists not, even
though it be palace, happiness can new
er come He was cold and selfish be-
ing who originated the saying, that,
when poverty comes in at the door. love
flies out at the window and his asser-
ton proves conclusively that he had no
knowledge Of love, for unquestionably,
the reverse Of the axiom quoted is nearer
the truth. When poverty comes in at
the door, love, true love, is more than
ever inclined to tarry and do battle with
the enemy. Let those who imagine
themselves miserable. before they find
fault with their surroundings, search in
their own hearts for the cause. A few
kind words or little forbearance. will
often open the way to food of sunshine
in house darkened by the clouds of dis
ord and unamiabiiitr. =