Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-19

sible.
Never speak to deceive, or listen
TO betray.
We possess only that which We
comprehend.
Marriage, with peace, is this world 5
paradise.
Riches cannot purchase mental en-
dOwments.
Years are carried off on the wings
of moments.
: Confidence may not be reciprocal,
but kindness should be.
Friendship is the wine of exist
ence, love, the dram drinking.
Merit is mostly discovered by ac-
cident, and rewarded by destiny.
-Great places are great burdens,
distinguished conditions in life exact
great servitude.
He who cheerfully commits the
universe to God has nothing in the uni
verse to fear.''
-"Whatever God gives men as step
ping-stones, they often make into
stumbling blocks
Every witticism is an inexact
thought; that which is perfectly true
is imperfectly Witty.
Clear writer's. like clear fountains,
do not seem SO deep as they are; the
turbid look the most profound.
The envious man is made gloomy
not only by his own cloud, but by am
other mans sunshine.
1t is apparent to parent that a
great many children get an the wrong
track because the switch is misplace
ed.
1--WE see," said Swift, in one Of
his most caustic moods what God
thinks of riches by the people he Civ
es them to-"
"A man can do without his own ap
probation in much society, but ht
must make great exertions to gain il
when he lives alone.
1.-THE pictures and sketches of the
late Sir Edwin Landseer are to be sold
in the spring They are expected to
realize from S250,00O to $500, 200"
Thoughts come into our minds by
avenues which we never left open, and
thoughts 90 odt of our minds through
avenues which we never voluntarily
open.
HAS anyone wronged you? Be
bravely revenged f; slight it, and the
work is begun forgive it, tbs finished.
He is below himself who is not above
an injury.
---Suspicion is not less an enemy to
virtue than to happiness {; he that is
always corrupt is naturally suspicious,
and he that becomes suspicious, will
quickly be corrupt.
IF I were a writer of books, I
would compile a register with the com
ments of the men: for who should
teach them to die, would at the same
time teach them to live.
-"God's image sltmbcrs in our
sotils till sharp-edged grief cuts here
and there, then, 10 ! the semblance Of
His form appears sculptured by the
woes of time.
The more and the greater are life s
difficulties, the more honorable it is to
carry off the victory. Man may be
disappointed in his greatest hopes in
life, without, on that account, becom-
ing unhappy.
Time IS like a fashionable host,
that slightly shakes his parting guest
by the hand, and with his arms out
stretched, as though he would fly,
grasps the new conner: welcome ever
smiles, and farewell goes out signing
-ssWhat thou gi7est to the poor,
thou securest from the thief, but what
thou Withholde8t from his necessity, a
thief possesses. Gods exchequer is
the poor mans box: when thou
strikest a tally, he becomes thy debt
orr
Where the lawyers flourish, there
is certain sign that the laws do not
for this fourishing can only arise from
the perplexity or the violation of them.
IF an English lawyer Is in danger of
starving in a market town or village,
he invites another, and both thrive.