Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29
Our Free Lunch.

Our Free Lunch.
If you do your duty, God will not
fail Of his.
Make not fool Of thyself to make
others merry.
There's a great deal of genius in
making people comfortable.
The surest way to lose your
health is to keep drinking other peo-
pies.
There is nothing which binds heart
to heart so steadily as trusting and be-
ing trusted.
He who gives up the smallest
part of secret, has the rest no long
er in his power
IF man has great idea of him
self, it is certain to be the only great
idea he will ever have.
Few men are wise enough to. pre-
fer the blame that is useful for them,
to the praise that betrays them.
Mans wisdom consists in cheer
fully using present comfort. and dill
gently attending to present duties.
The best guardian of a women's
happinness is her husbands love: and
of her honor, her affection for him.
The chains of habit are generally
too small to be felt, till they are too
strong to be broken.-Dr. johnson.
1t is not miserable to be blind he
only is miserable who cannot acquiesce
in his blindness with fortitside. Mil
ton.
The sorrow which calls for help
and comfort is not the greatest, nor
does it come from the depths Of the
heart.
"A man who cannot command his
temper, his attention and his counte-
nance, should not think Of being man
of business.
-Eminence is not to be reached by
a fra~tic struggle after eminence. The
road to it is much more commonplace.
He that would dazzle must dig.
The essence of true nobility is
neglect Of self Let the thought of
self pass in, and the beauty of a great
action is gone like bloom from soil
ed flower.
--Women. easily detect mans love
indeed every thing is easier. to dis
guise from them-even hatred than
tthe passion Of love in men.
In the assurance of strength there
IS strength; and they are weakest,
however strong, who have no faith in
or their powers. Anon.
FRIENDSHIP AND LovE.--These
require the deepest and most entire
confidence, but souls Of high charac-
ter demand not communications Of a
familiar nature.
"A Covington girl lent her shawl
to an invalid gentleman riding IN a
stage, and when he handed it back
there was $500 greenback pinned to
the shawl.
An Ohio Baptist says: "Breth-
rem, I've been trying nigh onto forty
year to serve the Lord and get rich
both at onct, and I tell you its mighty
hard sleddin'." D"
= That woman was a philosopher,
though rough one, who, when she
lost her husband, said she had one
great consolation, and that was~~she
knew where he was O nights
There are people whose very pres
ence seems to lift you into better,
lighter atmosphere. Choose such as
sociates. "He that walketh with wise
men shall be wise but companion of
fools shall be destroyed.
-Self-denial is the cardinal virtue of
a Christian. The number of Chris
tians who deny themselves the pleas
ure of attending prayer-meetings is
much greater than the church gets
credit for.-Daabauy Necs.
Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man is the richer, or
happier, or wiser for it. 1t commend5
no one to any society. 1t is disgust
ing to the refined; abominable to the
good insulting to those with whom
we associate; degrading to the mind
improbable and injurious to society.
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