The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-10-28
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foe, as suspected friend.
Habit is cable woven thread by thread
until it cannot be broken.
With most men life is like back-gam-
mon, half skill and half luck.-Hot-
mes.
WEAKNESS can snore upon the fin..
when restless sloth finds the downy pilloH
hard
True dignity is never gained By placs
and never lost when honors are with
drawn.
Most men seek to impose some cunning
falsehood upon themselves for truth
Hauthorne.
All, friends, this pleasant world, is .
sad one, too, isn't it? Let US help one
another. Eifol.
If the experience of age could be mixed
with the sanguine enthusiasm of youth,
what compound to warrant the highest
success.
How the man from whom we make it
out pride to shrink has yet close broth
hood with us through some of our most
sacred feelings.-Geo. Eliot.
Friendship has steps which lead up to
the throne of God, though al spirits
come to the Infinite; only love is satia-
bic and, like truth, admits of no three
degrees Of comparison; and a simple be-
ing fills the heart.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Emerson.
They also serve who only stand and
wait.-Ntltou.
Life i'll preserved, is more than basely
lost.
Much more is said of knowledge than
its worth.
Sure, occasion Is the father Of most
that is good in us
A moments thought is passion pass-
ing knell.-Keats.
Folded eyes see brighter colors than
the open ever do,--Nrs. Brouning.
1t is kind of good to say we'll, and
yet words are not deeds. .-,S5ehs7
spear.
Poverty is the test Of civility and the
touchstone of friendship p-Hazltt
Some mourn more the shame which
sin brings, than the sin which brings
the shame
g. s--~-..~"s,o -n4.oev swax u
swear to il,
The best way for man to get out Of
a lowly position is to be contemptuously
effective in it.
An evil deed eats like canker. Long
weary years hardly ehace the errors Of
the day.
All enduring success, says Ruskin.
arises from faith in human nature or q
belief in immortality,
IT'S with our judgment as our watches
hone go just alike, yet each believes
his own.-Pope.
He who can not contract the sight of
his mind as well as dilate it, wants Q
great talent in lifc-Bacon.
see hundreds of men who have what
you would call religion, with whom
would scorn to exchange my irreligion.-
Kingsley.
That is acceptable devotion to God
which leads to practical, active charity
toward men, and the most unbelieving are
won by such religion.
To know man, observe how he wins
his object, rather than how he loses it,
for when we fail, our pride supports US;
IT'S misfortune that awakens ingenu-
ity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts
where these qualities had never come to
life but for the circumstances which gave
them being
Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the
sky, are immortal; but cunning and de-
ception, the meteors of the earth, after
glittering for moment, must pass away.
Robert Hall.
Prosperity has its sweet uses as well :
as adversely, for no sooner docs man
come into little property than he learns
the number of his friends; whereas, If he
had remained poor he would have died
in perfect ignorance of the fact.
What nonsense it is, this anxiety which /,
so worries u.s.. about our good fame after =
death. IF it were of the slightest real
moment our regulations would have been
placed by Providence more in our own /,
power, and less in other peoples
than we now find them to be.-Ho,o4-
| thorne.
A man must not only desire to be right
-he must be right. You may say, i
wish to send this ball so as to kill lion
crouching ycnder, ready to spring upon
me. My wishes are all right. and I
hope Providence will direct the ball.
Providence won't You must do,