The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17

sense and Sentiin e nj. I.

I
Habit is ten times nature.-[Gay
There is no real life but cheerful life
|-[Addison.
He conquers grief who takes firm
resolution.-Goethc.
For practical life genius is as useful
as telescope at the thcater
If God did not exist, it would be
necessary to invent one Voltairc.
No one breaches better than the ant,
and she says nothing.-[ Franklin.
There never was a great man unless
throug ii divine inspiration.-[Cicero.
The coolest bodies warm with oppo-
sition, the hardest sparkle in collision.
-[James.
We know God easily, provided we do
not constrain ourselves to define him.
[Joubert.
The superiority of some men is merely
local. They are great because their as
sociates are little - johnson.
[ never knew any man in my life who
could not bear another's misfortunes
perfectly like Christian.-[Pope.
Books that you may carry to the fire
and hold readily in your hand, are the
most useful after all.-[Sam john
son.
'ris best to pray,
Eut praying ever best succeeds
When seconded b. manly deeds SAKE.
Men trust rather to their eyes than
to their ears; the effect of precepts is
therefore slow and tedious, whilst that
of examples is summary and effec tual.
[-Seneca.
Men often appear to lie when most
truthful, and often seem to tell the
truth when most false; the most terrible
of lies is not that which is uttered, but
that which is lived.-[W. r..
Clark.
Generosity during life is very diff
ferent thing from generosity in the hour
OF death; one proceeds from gem
uine liberality and benevolcnce, the
other from pride or fear.-[ Horace
Mann.
Subtract from great mnn all that
he owes to opportunity and all that he
owes to chance. all that he has gained
by the wisdom of his friends and by the
folly of his enemies, and the giant will
often be left a pigmy.-[ Barlow.
To judge for ones self is the privilege
of but few; authority and example lead
the rest. They see with others eyes
and hear with others ears. Hence, it
is very easy to think as all the world is
now thinking; but to think as all the
world will thirty years hence is not
everybody's business.-CSchapen-
hauer,
1t is the granduer of all truth which
can occupy very high place in human
interests, that it is never absolutely
novel to the mcanest Of minds; it exists
externally by way Of germ or latent
principle in the lowest as well as the
highest, needing to be developed but
never to he planted.-[De Quincy.
e To be of no church is dangerous. Re-
ligion, Of which the rewards are distant
and which is animated only by faith
and hope, will glide by degrees out of
the mind, unless it be inyigorated and
re-impressed by external ordinances, by
stated calls to worship, and the salutary
influence Of example.-[sam john
son.
How foolish it is to imagine that the
earnest study Of means cripples the
genius? 1t is only from master of
them that free creative power can ema-
nate; it is only when familiar with all
the paths which have already been
trodden, and moving with ease in them,
that the mind may discover new ones.
&c. NJ. Won Weber.
There is a fatality, feeling, 50 Tres.
istable and inevitable that it has the
force of doom, which almost invariably
compels human beings to linger around
and haunt host-like the spot where some
great and marked event has given the
color to the lifetime; and still the more
irresistibly darker the tinge that sad
dens it Hawthorne.
I am quite sure it is most solemn
duty to cultivate our understanding to
the uttermost, for have seen the evil
moral consequences of fanaticism to a
greater degree than l ever expected to
see them realized; andI am satisfied
that neglected intellect is far oftener
the cause Of mischief to man than n