Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-11-04
BITS OF WISDOM.

| Heaven gives its favortes early
death.
A mass alone will with the mass
succeed.
| Wisely and slowly; they stumble
who run fast.
| He that lives TO no purpose lives to
a bad purpose.
| We should be as just to an ant as
to a human being.
The robbed that smiles steals some
thing from the thief.
| OF all the paths leading to woman's
love, pity is the straighest.
Women do not dsapprove their
rivals; they hate them.
Grieve not that men know not you,
grieve that you know not men.
A mouse can drink no more than
its fill from the mightiest river.
On some countenances is written a
history; on others only date.
There is no treasure parents can
| give their children like a brother.
Every undertaking is involved in
| its faults, as the fire in its smoke.
He who knows right principles is
not equal to him who loves them.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of
our dignity Madame ,S,0etchine.
Friendship is a cadence of divine
melody melting through the heart.
Every man has just as much vanity
as he wants understanding. Pope.
Why are 4 and A like good peo-
Pile? Because they meet in heaven.
Eternal life is spiritual substance,
present and incident to the possessor.
Romance has been elegantly de-
fined as the offspring of fiction and
love.
The gods divided man into men
that he might be more hopeful to him
self
1t is a wicked and cowardly thing
to attempt to rule the spirit by the
flesh.
Many actions, like the Rhone, have
two sources-one pure. the other i'm
pure.
Tully was not so eloquent as thou,
thou nameless column with unburied
base.
He that speaks the truth will find
himself in sufficiently dramatic situa-
tions.
We live not in ourselves, but be-
come portion of that around US
Byron.
No man can answer for his own
valor or courage till he has been in
danger.
It., is but a step from companion
ship to slavery, when one associates
with vice.
Beware of jealousy, it is the green
eyed monster that doth mock the food
it feeds on.
Vanity makes makes men redicu-
lous, pride odious, and ambition ter
lible.-&eele.
The mere learning of language is
like spending ones money for hand
some purses.
Weapons are instruments of evil
omen. They are not the tools Of
superior man.
A useless life is but an early death
this woman's destiny is eminently
mine. - Goethe.
A blush is a sign which nature
hangs out where charity and honor
| dwell. = Goethe.
The Chinese have saying that
great souls have wills; feeble ones
have only wishes.
Frame thy mind to mirth and mer-
iment, which bar thousand harms
and lengthen life,
To be a mans own fool is bad
enough, but the vain man is every
body s. William Penn.
He that does a base thing in zeal
for friend burns the golden thread
that ties their hearts together.
Poverty is nothing disgracefal for
man to confess, but not to escape it
by exertion, is more disgraceful.
Perfect yaior is to do unwitnessed
what we should be capable of per
forming before the whole world.
Success is full of promise till men
get it, and then it is as last years
nests, from which the bird hath flown.
All old men are not wise; for, to
be wise, is not sufficient TO have been
fool little longer than other men.
Friendship closes the eye rather
than see the moon eclipsed, while
malice denies that it is ever at the
full.
Love is but another name for that
inscrutable presence by which the
soul is connected with humanity
Sim0ns.
Our government from its not being
administered for the benefit of the
few but of the many, is called a
democracy.
Ridicule is weak weapon when
leveled at strong mind; but COM
mon men are towards, and dread an
empty laugh.
1t shocks me to think how much
mischief almost every man may do,
who will resolve TO do all he can
| Laurence ,Sterne.
Plate sin with gold, and the strong
lance OF justice hurtles, breaks; arm
it with rags, a pigmy's staw doth
pierce it.-ShakeSpeare.
The youth becomes man the
very Instant he begins to feel uneasy
at the idea of being dependent on
another.-W ". Hall.
Must I remember why she would
hang on him as If increase of appe-
title had grown by what it fed on;
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