The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-07-26
PLAIN DEALER,
Misery requires action; happiness re-

have failed on earth.
No chains so unworthy to hold you as
those of vain regret.
Not one false man but does unac-
countable mischief .-[Carlyle
Means are always in cnr power; ends
are seldom so.-[Fielding.
You will find poetry nowhere unless
you bring some with you.-(Joubert.
We let our blessings grow moldy and
then call them curses. Beecher.
The way of the world is to make laws;
but to follow customs.-[ Montague.
Our actions are our own;thei oonse-
quences belong to heaven.-[P. Francis.
Every production Of geuius must be
the production of enthusisam.-T Dis
raeli.
Men, like peaches and pears, grow
sweet little while before they decay
Holmes.
The health of a community is an al
most unfailing index Of its morals
Martinear.
Flowers are the sweetest things God
ever made and forgot to put soul
with.-[ Beecher.
1t is only great souls that know how
match glory there is in being good
[Sophocles.
think it best not to dispute where
there is no probability of CONVINCING
lWhitefeld.
The most dangerous Of oil aattery is
the inferiority Of those about U.S.
Mad. Swetchine.
The best thing which we derive from
history is the enthusiasm that it raises in
us.-[Goetho.
Life is like wine; he who would drink
it pure must not drain it to the dregs.
IF Sir W. Temple.
He who does evil that good may come
paws a toll TO the devil to let him into
heaven.-[ Hare.
False heads not only disagree with
truths, bnt usually quarrel among them
selves Daniel Webster.
1t is impossible to speak against
Christianity without anger, nor to speak
for it without love.-[Joubert.
There never was any heart truly
great and gracious that was not also
tender and compassionate.-[Southey.
Prayer is the peace Of our spirits,
the stiffness of our thoughts, the rest of
our cares, the calm Of our transports.
It is one thing to wish to have truth
on our side and another to wish to be
on the side Of truth.-[Whately.
I know myself how incomprehensible
God is, seeing can not comprehend
the parts If my own being. -[St. Ber-
nard.
The Gully vice that can not be forgiv-
en- is hypocrisy. The repentance of a
hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.-.[ Hazlitt.
God has so made the mind of man
that peculiar righteousness resides in
the fruits Of personal industry.-Wil-
berforce.
The root Of sanctity is sanity. A
man must be healthy before he can be
holy. We battle first and then per-
fume. Mad. swetchine.
CoIimon-sonsc is only a modification
Of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it;
the difference is, therefore, in the de-
gree, not nature.-[ Bulwer.
Man is an animal that can not long
be left in safety without occupation
the growth of his fallow nature is ant
to run into weeds.-[ billiard.
1t should seem that incidence itself
would incline person 10 b. honest, as
It requires infinitely greater pains and
,ontrivapces to be a knaye.-TShen-
stonn
Let the day have blessed baptism
by giving your first waking throughs in
to the bosom of God. The first hour
Of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Il Beecher.
Curses always rocoil on the head of
hin! who ilnprecates them. # you put
} chain around the neck Of slave, the
other end festens itself around your
own Emerson.
Nothing more impairs authority than
too frequent or indiscreot use Of it.
Ii thunder itself was to be continual,
It would excite no moro terror than the
noise Of mill.