Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-07-18
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H'ishes.
Sc Sell. sEe wants pony
70 ride adown the lane
And Ned, gallant vessel
To sail across the main.
Now Grandpapa has neither,
But Offers each knee:
And one snail be an Arab steed,
And one a ship at sea.
---" Time flies over us, but leave.
its shades behind"
The porr mans gold Is the suns
set ; bu, it's never alta premium.
-" Happiness is measured by csFt-
urc not by POSITION
One Goes not with impunl,v live
in company with little, or mean
soul.
---" God asks no man whether he
will accept hfe. That is not the
choice. You must take il. Tho only
choice is ho,c."
-" Men trust rather to their eyes
than 10 their ears tho effect Of pre-.
ccpts is therefore slow and tedious,
whilst that of examples is summary
aud eifeetual." Seneca.
Two lives the mranest Of ia live
One which the world hcholds. snd one
Whose hidden history uone may give
But ne who lives IL.
-" Men often appear 10 lie When
most truthful, and often seem to tell
Tho truth when most false the most
terrible of lies is not that which is ut-
tered, but that which is lived" W.
T. Clark.
---" Love is secondary passion in
tl'osc who love most a PRIMARY, in
those who love least, he who is III.
spired by i, in the strongest degree,
is inspired IN greater" Lander.
Generosity during life is a very
different thing from generosity in tbs
hour OF death ; one proceeds from
genuine libcrality and beneyeInce,
the other from pride or fear. Horass
Mann.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again
The eternal years OF God are hers.
But Error, wounded, writhcs with pain
And die. among lis worshpers. - Bryant
Subtract from great man all
that he owes TO opportunity aud all
tha, ae owes TO chance, all that he
has gained by the wisdom OF his
friends and the fclly of his enemies,
and the giant will be oflon left pig.
my Bnfoao
--"Christlan faith is a grand catlics
dral, with divinely pictured windows.
Standing without, you see no glory,
nor can possibly imagine any stand.
ing within, every ray ofIlght reveuls
harmony OF anspeakablc splonlor."
Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot Boy, with check Of tan
With thy turned rp padiAluons;
And thy nrtry #tlNled tunca
with thy rod 'ipl reddcr ,,ill
Kissed the sltHwbetpics on the hill
With the Sunshine On thy face,
Through thy torn bruins j,unty grace
From my heart give the. jpY,-
waa once barefoot boy - jYhiasr
If the divine earnestness within
us only shifts and does not die, il mat,
ters little what becomes Of our mere
theology and deep hearted, practi.
cal iaithtulness Is not rated long from
true.thoughsed, practical faith. - MGI
dreun.
Strive not to walk in others' foot
steps, but rather 10 carve out for thy.
self path in the rough rock Of dIscoy.
cry, There are greater heights aud
depths than humanity has et reached
or .oundedj
Weep not for the dead, The early
. allcd' Better weep for those whose
weary footsteps hnger upon Trnes
thorny prth /; cheer and coipfor, tIer
aching Hearts; but ever rem miief
that friends, loving and true. are wei.
coming the deputtd, just on the other
side.
All in the May tines merries weather
Rode two travellers, blide aud groom
Breast and breast went their mules togetbc,.
fetlock deep through the d.i.y bloom.
Roses pecped at them out Of the hedges.
White flowers leaned to them down rom
the thorn,
And mp from The furrows with suniit ,ages
Crowded the children that .owed Ia The