Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-10-08

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Friendship, Ike iron; is fragile is
hammered too thin.--4ristotle.
THE tenderest heart loves best the
boldest and most courageous one.
THE christians crosses arc ladder,
that lead to heaven"
We are so accustomed To masquerade
ourselves before others that we end BY
deceiving ourselves. s.-Rochefomcauld.
The more sand has escaped throu-
gh the hour glass of our life, the clearer
we should see through lt.-Rickter.
We hear the rain fall. but not the
snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief
Is silent. .-4uerbdch.
1t is not till the storm comes that We
find out the real building and timber of
yessel.--Uiss Nu!och.
There cannot live more unhappy
creature that an ill-natured old man,
who is neither capable of receiving
pleasures nor sensible of doing them to
Others
There are many who talk on from ig-
norance rather than from knowledge,
and who find the former an mex
baustible fund of conversation. HdzLiu
When noble life has prepared old
age, it IS not the decline that it reveales.
but the first days Of Immortality
MADAME de Stale.
1t is easy to deceive ones self with
our perceiving it as it is difficult to de-
ceive others without their finding it
out.-Rochefoucauld. out
Applause waits on success the fck-
ie multitude, like the straw that floats
along the stream, glide with the curr-
ent still and follow fortune Franklin.
There is nothing more disgraceful
than that an old man should have
nothing to produce, as a proof that he
has lived long, except his years.
Seneca
TO be silent is sometimes an art.
yet not as great a one as certain people
would have us to believe who are wisest
when most silent. - WeildnI.
Vegetation turns to coal and gives
light centuries afterwards. Alas, that
we seldom have so honorable destiny.
Geo. w. Prentice.
-"Any coward can fight battle when
he's sure of winning; lu' give me the
man who has pluck to fg1t when he's
sure of losing"
"Personal beauty is letter, of
recommendation written by the hand
of divinity, but not unfrequently dis
honored by the bearer.
The wavering and changeable lea
yes are part of the oak it is les
son to us not to deny the stougheart-
ness within because we sec the light
somness without.
Emerson, says, Life is hardly re-
spectacle if it has no generous task, no
duties or affections that constitute ne
cessity of existing Every mans task
is his life-preserver."
Worldly faces never look so world
" as at funeral. They have the same
effect of grating incogruity as the
sound Of a coarse voice breaking the
solemn silence Of night.-Geo. Eliot.
Il shall be, . and" | might
have been.' The former is the music
of youth, sweet as the sound Of bells !
the latter, the planet of age, the dirge
of hope, the inscription for tomb
GEO. " Prentice.
The intoxication or anger. like
that of the grape. shows us to others.
but hides us from ourselves, and we in
iure our own cause, in the opinion of
the world, when We too passionately
and eagerly defend it. Cotton.
OF all the agonies in life, that
which is most poignant and narrowing
that which for the time annihilates
reason, and leaves our whole organiza-
ton one lacerate1, mangled hearts
the conviction that we have been de-
ceived where we placed all the trust Of
love.--Bul,oer Lytton.
Decent and talshood, whatever
conveniences they may for the time
promise or produce. are. in the sum of
life, oh 3tacles to happiness. Those who
profit by the cheat distrust the deceiE-
er {; and the act by which kindness