The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-08
Reflections.

| Any man who will do the best he can
will be surprised at the result.
1t is a great relief to descend to triilcs
once in while would like no better
fun myself, this minute, than to get right
down to the earth and play marbles with
any boy who didn't swear and who could
play Il good game.
+ One great reason why SO few of us are
ever happy is because we arc more anx-
ious to make others cnviOus than to please
ourselves.
Happiness and misery, after all, arc very
equally divided among mankind.
don't suppose there has ever been q
success yet in which good luck didn't have
something to do with it.
There are people SO sclf-conccited that
nothing is done right unless it is done
in their way These folks will even try
/ to make a perfectly conteptcd man think
he amt happy.
Even if there wasn't any virtue in truth,
there is policy enough in it to make it ac-
ccptable to all.
When man gets so old that he has lost
all relish for any particular pleasure, then
he grows eloquent advising others to be-
ware of it.
| would like to be shown something that
nobody could be found ready 10 find fault
with.
The two leading articles In market just
now are pity and advice, but abuse is
worth more than either to any live man.
Men oftener get caught in traps they set
themselves than in any other way.
When man is lost to all shame Il club
and rawhidc are the only arguments left.
An imitation has got to be a good
deal better than an original to equal it.
There are but few men who are good
company for others, and less who arc good
company for themselves.
Hope is a saucy jade, and has cheated
more folks than SHE has ever helped, but
no one is willing to cast her Off
never knew an indOlcnt man yet but
that had more work on hand than three
smart men could do.
Idle curiosity is worse disease than
the itch.
There never has lived man yet great
enough to make even the smallest crime
or vice respectable.
/ 1 don't. suppose there is one single
thing III this whole world made in vain,
but there arc men who come dreadful
close to it.
How many people do you suppose there
their hearts laid open to public view?
Old people are just as foolish as young
ones; the only difference is in the kind Of
folly. y *'
Life is bondage anyhow, and those
who stick to the treadwhcel the closest are
the happiest. .--
1t is so easy and natural for people to
give good advice that have always won
dcred why they never could follow 1t any
better themselves. - - 80 !.
The great glory is, not the amount o.
virtue that a man has got on hand, but the
amount he has put out into the world on
interest.
Eloquence is the art of expressing the
best ideas in. the choicest and fewest
words. II MI: I'LL !
Gravity Is no evidence of wisdom to me,
but if man is atfool the best thing he can
do is. to be grave and keep still on the sub
ject. sf"a .....- :
Politeness Of any kind is: no doubt bet
ter than rudeness, but its real worth de.
| ponds upon its honesty.
There's lots of people in this world who
spend so much time watching their health
that they haven't got any time left to en-
joy it. sss5s<a. ~
f If you want to, make man ungrateful
for what he has got out of you Just .stoI
giving him anythipS more. II
| The heart is weaker than the head, bu
/ don't believe it makes so many blum
ders.-Josh Billings, IN N. T. Weekly.