The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-11-08
PLAIN DEALER,

are our slurs.-l Kichter.
A.gre at man is always willing to b.
little. Emerson.
Take things always by their smootl
hanale.-IJsffcrson.
a free people must be a thoughtf.
lpeople.-[Dr. Dewey.
| Very near together are the hearts
that have no guile.--[Confucius..
! \ talent is perfect in solitude; ;
character in the stream Of the world
l--[Gcethe.
II The hand Of charity open not tn.
mouth let the finger Of silence rest upol
thy lip.
| We know God easily, provided w
do not constrain ourselves to define
Him. Joubert.
| lie who receives good turn should
never forget it; he who does one should
never remember it.
| The defects Of understanding, like
those of the face. grow worse as We
grow old.-[ Rochefoucault.
One may live as a conqueror, king
or magistrate, but he must die as a
mani Daniel Webster.
In the best books great men talk to
us, give us their most precious thoughts,
and pour their souls into ours.
Prayer and religion are ore and in
sporadic; as much as there is of one,
SO much Of the other.--Hedge.
Every man, however good he may
be, has yet better man dwelling with
him, which is properly himself, but to
whom, nevertheless he is often unfaith-
full. 1t is to the interior and less
mutable being that we should attach
ourselves. not to the changeable every
day man.--Von Humboldt.
MoLammed once said: "When a man
dies men inquire what he has left be-
hind him; angels inquire what he has
sent before him."
The editor who was such fool as to
publ:2h = newspaper that made nobody
angry at him, was obliged to abandon
business. He is now engaged in the
more congenial labor Of peddling skim
med milk.
An exchange announces on the death |
of a lady that she ''lived fifty years
with her husband, and died in confident
hope of better life
Carlyle compares the metaphysician
to the Irish saint who swan across the
channel, carrying his head in his teeth.
Originally the term of human life |
was thousand years; but that was
before there were doctors.
1t is the man who determines the
dignity Of the occupation, not the oc-
cupation which measure the dignity of
the man.
Since the recent developments rcs-
pecting the treatment of the insane in
lunatic asylums, no person charged
with crime has put in a plea of insanity.
They prefer the penitentiary to the
asylum.
The young fellow who engaged him.
self to half dozen young women is I'M
doubtedly beau of promise.
A crusty old bachelor says that Ad-
ans wife was called Eve because when
she appeared mans day Of happiness
was drawing to close.
"Home is the place for boys" said
Spinks to his eldest pride and joy. Eyes,
- said the youngster, dutifully. Il like
to stay at home all the time, but ma
sends NE to school"
care you not afraid that wlisky'll
get into your hcad?' asked a stranger
Of a man he saw drinking at bar. "No,
" said the topper, "this liquors to week
to climb"
God is never in hurry. 1t comes of
our unbelief in Him that we arc 50 apt |
to be in hurry. He that believeth
should not make haste. If we look at
the history of the material world, or
the intellectual world, or the social
world, nothing is clearer than that God
never was in hurry, and that he can
afford to wait.
One Of the vices of our literary class
is the superficial refinement which
vents itself on words and phrases. l
have seen expressions of both bye and
grief which were too elegant for pass
ion. The strong thought always finds
the best speech, but as its total form
it does not pause to prink itself by the
way, Or to study its face in the glass;
Echo Club.
Labor is exercise continued to fati-
que; exercise is labor used only while
it produces pleasarc.-[Johnso
Not because I raise myself above
something, but because I raise myself
to something, do / approve myself.
|-[Jacobi.
What is fame but famous element
recognizing itself; the ordinary man
pays homage to himself full-grown.
John Weiss.