Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12

The tenderest heart loves best the
bold and courageous one.
If we seize too hastily we have to
drop tdo hastily.
Experience is a torch lighted in the
ashes of our delusions.
GA pollution serves God as fan
as he can without offending the devil.
Only what thou art in thyself,
determines thy value, not what thou
hast.
Mems evil manners live in brass,
their virtues we write in water.
DO not forget that while you fold
your hands, Time folds not ZIP his
wings.
Hood called the slamming of a
door by person in passion "a wood,
en- oath"
Great places are great burdens,
distinguished conditions in life exact
great servitude.
He who cheerfully commits the
universe to God, has nothing in the
universe to fear.
Whatever God gives men as step
ping g-stones, they often make into
stumbling blocks.
Il like to see partition walls, but
so low that I can reach over and take
brother by tie hand"
Mankind loves mysteries. Hence
a hole in the ground excites more Won
der than a star in the heavens.
-Tngratitude is always kind Of
weakness. [ have aever seen that Gle
yer men have been ungrateful.
Every neglected opportunity
draws after it an irraparable loss, which
will go into eternity with you.
Human nature is so constituted
that all see and Judge better in the af
fairs of other 1aen than in their own.
In mind charged with eager
purpose and an unsatisfed vindictive-
ness, there is no room for new feelings.
"A singular instance of skepticism
is recorded III the case Of man who
said the Bible was ''too good to be
true. y
Persons extremely reserved are
ike old enameled watches with paint
ed covers: that hindered your seeing
what time 1t was.
Which of us is there that can tel
how much vanity turks in our warmest
regard for others, and how selfish oul
love is?
Every man hath not a talent Of
time, but a talent Of opportunity tc
improve his talent in some measure
put into his hand.
He that is we'll employed while
the 8un is in the sky, will most likely
sleep soundly when the stars are shin
ing above him.
Gods image slumbers il our souls
till sharp edged grief cuts here and
there, then, 10 the semblance Of His
form appears sculptured by the woes
of time.
TO be happy, the passions must
be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and
melancholy. A propensity to hope
and JOY is real riches; one to fear and
sorrow, real poverty.-Hunae.
A true history of human events
would show that far larger proper
ton of our acts are the result Of sud
den impulses and accidents. than of
reason of which we SO much boast. =
Cooper.
A little girl asked minister, ''Do
YOU think my father will 90 to heav-
en- ?" "Why, yes, my child. Why
do YOU ask - "WelI, because if he
don't have his own way there he won
stay long, 1 was thinking:
-"You cannot taste in the dark, .
said lecturer Mature has intended
US to see our food" ''Then," inquir-
ed forward pupil, chow about blind
man at dinner?' "Nature, sir, y an
swered the professor, ''has provided
him with eye teeth.
oh, why is love SO powerless-so
vain Infinite in will yet how bounded
in power! We would fain spread
world extended wings of shelter and
comfort over our beloved and yet IN
our helplessnees we may let them SINK
suffer, die alonel Strange and Sad 1t
is that we, who would brave alike