Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-23

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1t is not the victory that makes
the JOY of noble hearts, but the COM
Observation-Disclosures
To be y great man it Is necessary
to turn to account all opportunities
RocheJaacaald.
We generally condemn the pas
sions of others by other passions either
like or unlike.-PasS,ti, QuesneL.
The admiration bestowed on for
mer times is the bias of all times the
golden age never was the present age.
-Hore.
We cannot hope to live so long in
our names as some have done in their
persons. Gravestones tell truth scarce
forty years. Generations pass while
some trees stand, and old families last
not three oaks.-Str Thomas Browae.
Universal love is a glove without
fingers which fits all hands alike. and
none closely; but true affection is like
a glove with fingers, which fits one
hand only, and sits close to that one.
Richer.
Man is the lonely and sublime CO.
lumbus Of creation, who wandering on
this cloudy strand of time sees drifted
waits and strange portents born from
an unknown somewhere, causing to be-
lieye in another world. -B{yee.
To arrive at perfection, man
should have very sincere friends or in
veterate enemies; because he would be
made sensible of his good or i'll con-
duet, either by the censures of the one
or the admonitions of the other
Diogenes.
Wealth and poverty are seen for
what they are. 1t begins to be seen
that th2 poor are only they who feel
poor, and poverty consists in feeling
poor. The rich, as we reckon them,
and among the very rich, in a true
scale, would be found very INDECENT
and ragged.-Emersoa.
The strong emotions from which
the life Of human being receives a
new bias, win their victory as the sea
wins his; though their advance may
be sure, they will often, after might
ier wave than usual. seem to roll back
so far as to lose all the ground they had
made Eliot.
=" Grim care, anxiety, moroseness,
all this rust Of life ought to be secured
off by the oil of mirth. 1t is better
than emery. Every man ought to rub
himself with it. A man without mirth
is like wagon without springs, in
which every one is caused disagreeably
to jolt by every pebble over which it
runs
=" You are accustomed" said
Prince Bismarck lately to the Ultra
montana party, (and his words apply
more widely), "to complain of oppres-
sion when not permitted to lord it over
Others" 1t is persecution , to some
people to be compelled to mind their
own business.
-" Love is often but solitary leaf,
but neither storm nor blight can fade
it +; like the perfume that dead flower
sends forth, 1T is sweet when all the
gay sunshine has departed; when all
its bloom has past, it has the fragrancy
of memory it is the last lingering beam
that grows after sun and stars have
SET"
People talk of originality What
do they mean? As soon as we are
born the surrounding world begins to
operate upon US, and so On 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 fore
and contemporaries, truly there
would remain but little over.-Gethe.
Reverence is an enobling senti-
nent, it is felt to be degrading only by
he vulgar mind which would escape
he sense Of its own bitterness by eIeva-
ing itself into the antagonist Of what
5 above it. He that has no pleasure
n looking up is not fit to look down.
1fsUch minds are the mannerists in art
md in the world : the tyrants of all
Sorts Washington ALtston.
Surely the mischief of hypocracy
,an never be in9eighed against. When
,eligion is in request, it is the chief
nalady of the church, and members
lie of it; though because it is subtle
nd inward evil, it be little perceived.
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