The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-09-20
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self.-[Publius Syrus.
Whosoever is unchaste can not rev.
erence himself Bacon.
Ifear God, and next to God, I chiefly
l fear him who fears Him mott Saadi.
We can do NOR, good by being
good thanin any other way Rowland
Hill.
We do not count mans years until
he has nothing else to COUNT Emerson
1t was fruitful saying Of Thorcau, Be
not simply good be good for something.
The French have a very significant
saying: 1t is always the unexpected
which happens.
DR.. johnson used to say: He who
waits to do great deal Of good at once,
will never do any.
The man who can do nothing but
serious, or nothing but merry, is but
half mani Leig Hunt.
The passionate are like men standing
on their heads; they see all things the
wrong way.-[Plato.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest.
We are not fitted to bear long the
burden Of great joys.-[Boode.
How is it possible that mankind will
take advice when they will not so much
as take warning?-[Swift
To tell falsehood is like the cut of
a saber; for, though the wound may
b cal, the scar will remain Saadi.
Sir Thomas Brown said: Sleep il Deaths
Younger brother, and so like him that
never dare trust him without my
prayers. as
Take away from mankind their van
ity and their ambition, and there would
be but few claimants to be heroes or
patriots.--[Seneca.
The dispotism of custom
IS on the wane; we are not con-
tent to know that things are; we ask
whether they ought to be.-[John Stuart
Mill.
The putting in order is delightful
and it is at least analogous
20 virtue. Virtue is the love of moral
,rder. Henry Crabbe Robinson.
1t is one the beautiful compensation
If this life that no one can sincerely
,ry to help another without helping
himself. - C.D. Warner.
The husks Of emptiness rustic in every
Wind; the full corn in the ear holds up
is golden fruit noisclcs sly to the Lord
# the harvests.-[Whittier.
There are emotions that one could
never put into words without the dan-
ger of being ridiculous. Analysis is
he death of scntiment.-[C.D. Warn
aer.
1t will be generally found that those
Who whet their appetites by vigorously
from one enjoyment, are the
most voracious in the qualification of
'thers.
The man who never stumbles knows
,othing of the world of sorrow beneath
lin, the wealth of sympathy around
md the heaven of forgiying love over
lis heaa.-[W. L. Clarke.
On earth we have nothing to do with
uccess or with its results, but only
icing true to God; aud for Cor for it
5 sincerity and not success which is the
weet SAVIOR before Cod Robertson.
The blossom can net tell what be-
ones Of it's odor, and no man can tell
What becomes of his influence and ex-
mple, that roll away from him and 60
'eyond his ken on their pcrilous mission.
It is much easier to think right with
ut doing right, than to do right with
ut thinking right. just thoughts
nay, and often do, fail Of producing
ust deeds; but just deeds are sure to
eget just thoughts.
If we think OF religion only as a
means of escaping what we call the
1rath to come, we shall not escape it;
7e are already under it, we are under
he burden of death, for we care only
Or ourselvei.-[ Froule.
In science, read. by preference, the
newest books; in literature, the oldest.
The classic literature is always modern.
Sew books revive and decorate old
IDEAS; old books suggest and invigorate
lew ideas.-[ Bulwer.
The art Of conversation consists in
he exercise Of two fine qualities. You
must originate and you must sympathise;
7ou must possess, at the same time, the
labits of communicating and listening.
The union is rare but irresistible.
Froudc
There is that in every animals eye
. dim image and CLEAN Of humanity.
fash of strange light through wLicl,
heir life looks out and up to our great
mystery Of control over them, and claims
he fellowship Of the creature, if not of
he soul.-[Ruskiu.
They wrong man greatly who say
'e is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty,
lbncgation, martyrdom, death, arc