Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-10
Sense and Sentiment.

CcuSt anu SenJllHeHJ.
FLArTERY hurts the fatterer as well AS
the fattered.
CRUELTY is draft upon humanity all
are too poor to pay.
WE hear the rain fall, but not the
snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief
is silent.
EVERY good deed that we do is not
only present pleasure, but prop for
the future.
The greatness of man not to be faultless is,
But to be raised above the faults which yet are
his.
For words are wise mems counters;
they do but reckon by them; but they
are the money Of fools. - Thomas
Hobbies.
A PROPER secrecy is the only mystery
of able men; mystery is the only secrecy
of weak and cunning ones.-C Chester
field.
SOME men take pleasure in earning
their money as we'll as in using ia
sure way of getting it, and getting the
good of it.
THE question is not: Art thou
In the nobility?
This is the question: II there
Nobility in thee ?-GleiDl.
NONE are SO fond of secrets as those
who do not mean to keep them; such
persons cOvet secrets as q spendthrift
does money, for the purpose of circula-
uon.-COltOn.
HE prospect of want is worse than
actual privation. Man appears to be
the only animal III existence whose ex-
T..
OUR brains are seventy-year clocks
The angel of life winds them up once
for all, then closes the case and gives
the key into the hand of the angel of the
Observation-Disclosures.
THE most momentous question We
man is ever called upon to beside is,
whether the faults of the man she loves
will drag her down, or whether she is
competent to be his earthly redeemer.
The mind has certain vegetative
power, which cannot be wholly idle. IF
it is not laid out and cultivated into a
beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot
up weeds of flowers of a wild growth
Steele.
A HEAT full of GOODNESS. a sweet full
of bitterness, pan full Of pleasantness
which maketh thoughts have eyes and
hearts and ears; bred by desire, nursed
by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed
by assembling, buried by ingratitude;
and this is love.-Lyly.
SELF RESPECT is the noblest garment
with which man may clOthe himself
the most elevating feeling with which
the mind can be inspired. One of
PythagOras' wisest maxims, in his
golden verses, is that which enjoins the
pupil to reverence himself.-,SnnaueE
Smiles.
ALL sensuality is one, though it takes
many forms; all purity is one. It is the
habit, Or sleep, sensually. They are
but one appetite, and we need only see
person do any one of these things to
know how great a sensualist he IS
ZhOreau.
The sure foundations of the state are
laid in knowledge, not in ignorance;
and every sheer at education, at culture.
at book-learning, which is the recorded
wisdom of the experience of mankind.
is the demagogue's sheer at intelligent
liberty, inviting national degeneracy
and uin.-George William Curtis.
He that loses his conscience has
nothing left that is worth keeping.
therefore be sure and look to that And
in the next place look to your health
and, if you have it, praise God, and
value it next to good conscience; for
health is the second blessing that we
mortals are capable Of, blessing that
money cannot buy; therefore, value it
and be thankful for it.-Lz00k Walton.
UNLESS wariness be used, as good al
most kill man as kill good book; who
kills man kills reasonable creature,
Gods image; but he who destroys a
good book kills reason itself, kills the
image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Many man lives a burden to the earth,
but good book is the precious life
blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and
treasured up on purpose to a life be-
yond life.-Ailton
TURNING from the sunshine of life to-
ward the dusky cloud that is passing by,
bearing in it's lap higher beauty and
increased fertility, but which, while it
is there, weighs upon the chest and OBJ
scures the mental vision-even that /
bless; for to have felt everything
everything that has the power of touch
ing feeling heart, never mind how or
what it bet is thatcunstitutes the rich
ness Of .-SchleierDaacher.