The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-26
PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
Negative virtue is a positive vice, If the
means exist OF Improving il. 2e ah

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Negative virtue is positive vice, If the
means exist OF improving It.. 'e
Truly to love ourselves we must love God
To love Go we must all hs creatures love.
To love his creatures, both ourselves and him !.
5. The authority of experience seems but a
vain nction' formed for the credulity of age.
IS the last enjoyment Of It's selr-love. -'
You must have noticed hat there are some
sorts of people for whom everybody turns
out as they would for railroad car. with
out asking Why shw atsW 9o Sex Sc
There are dark shadows on the earth. but it's
lights are stronger in the CO trast Some
men, like bats or owls. have better eyes for
the darkness than the light.
7 Real sorrow Is almost as difficult to dis
cover as real poverty. An instructive deli
cacy hides the ways OF the one and the
wounds of the other.
Busy not thyseIf in searching into Other
mems lives !; the errors OF thine own are
more than thou can answer for 1t more con.
Germs thee to mend one fault in myself than
TO fud out Thousand in others. "
Every 5'ade of grass is representative of
nature and every little spot large enough
to kneel down upon is ali altar at which we
NAV worship the majesty Of the Omnipotent
Life Is a beautiful and endless mystery.
The last best fruit which comes to late per.
lection, even in the kind Hest soul, is tender
ness toward the hard, foroearance toward
the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward
the cold, philauthropic toward the nissan
thropc.
There is not boy on all the hills Of New
England, not q girl born in the fiIthiest
cellar which dlsgraces a capital in Europe.
and cries to Sod against the barbarism of
modern civilization. not boy or girl in all
Christendom through. but their lot is made
better by that great Book. ~.
Life after all Is but bundle of hints, each
suggesting actual and positive development,
but rarely reaching it, And as recall these
hints, and in fancy, trace them TO their is
sues, am as truly dealing with life, as if my
life had dealt them all tome
know there are very good people. who if
they cannot lay their fingers on so much
doctrine set down in old fashioned phrase.
will never get 40 linking of 1t at all With
srch people. goodness is thing of under
standing. more than of feeling and all their
morality has it's action in the brain.
Great thoughts belong only and truly, to
him VIII ose mind can hold them. No matter
who first put them in words if they come
to soul and fill it, they belong to it =.
whether they foated on the voice of Others,
or on the wings of silence, and the night.
Let science, literature. music. flowers, all
things that tend to cultivate the intellect, or
and Harry - and thus, in process of time
they will become Mr.. Thomas, Richard and
Henry. In all these things, the refined should
think of what they can inapart. not of what
they can receive.
He who sets up for forgiving all injuries
will have nothing else to do; he who APP
pears to be weak VIII be often imposed on !;
and he who pretends to extraordinary
upon him. Therefore little spirit, as wei;
as much sagacty, is necessary, to be upon
even terms with the world
People talk Of originality. What do they
mean? AS soon as we are born the sur
rounding world begins to operate upon US,
and so to the end and after all, what can
we truly call our own but energy power and
will? Could point out all owe to my
forerunners and contemporaries, truly there
would remain but little over.