The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-10-14
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! Celebrity is never more admired than by
tie negligent. nt.-.ShokeYeare.
Admonish your friends privately, but
praise them openly. - Publius
.Syrus
Nothing is rarer than the use
of word in its exact meaning Whip
pie.
A soft answer turneth away wrath;
but grievous words stir up anger
Bible.
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the
soul with chastening.-George Her
bert
The defects of the mind, like those of
the face grow worse as we grow old
RoehJoueald
He that has never known adversely Is
but half acquainted with others, or
with himself -ColtoR
At twenty years of age, the viii
reigns; at thirty, the wit; at forty, the
judgement-Gsu
How many persons fancy they
hays.s experience simply because
they have grown old ,-Stanis-
idas.
Always rise from the table with an
apPeti:e, and VIII never sit down with
ont one. = William Penn,
Ambition is lust that is never
quenched, grows more infamed and mad
der by enjoyment. Ot'cay.
God efflicts with the mind of a
father, and kills for no other
purpose but that he may raise again.
S outh. :5s.
1t is by attempting to reach the top
at single leap that so much
misery is produced in the world
GobbeH.
If an offence came out of the truth,
better is that TIE offence come,
then the truth be Concealed
Jerome
Those who are formed to win general
admiration are seldom calculated to be-
stow individual happiness. - Lady
Blesstng'oa.
Toll, feel, hope, think A man is
sure to dream enough before he dies
without making arrangements for the
purpose. Sterling,
The height of ability in a thorough
knowledge Of the real value of things,
and of the genius Of the age we live in.
-Rochetoacoald.
1t is impossible that anything so nat
ural, so necessary, and so universal as
Death, should ever have been designed
by Providence as an evil to mankind
S,cJt. G..T
Millions of syirltual beings walk the
earth,
Born when we wake and when we
sleep.
-MiU0n.
Feeling is deep and still; and the word
that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where
the anchor is hidden,
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what
the world calls illusions.
-Lonafellow.
l will stand here for humanity, and
though | would make it true. Let us
affront and reprimand the smooth med
iocrity and squalid contentment of the
times. and hurl in the face of custom,
and trade, and office, the fact which is
the upshot Of all history, that there is
responsible Thinker and Actor
working wherever aman works.-Emer-
son.
He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to
mend;
Eternity mourns that, 'Tis an ill
For life's worst ills, to have no time to
feel them.
Where sorrow is held intrusive, and turn
cd cut
There wisdom will not enter, nor true
power,
Nor. aught that dignifes human
ity.
t ~ -&hohepeare.
It is when our budding heres are nip
ped beyond recovery by some rough
wind, that VIC are tie most disposed to
picture to ourselves what towers they
might have borne, if they had fourished.
-Churles Dickens
prefer my own lie to that of the
mass of married PEOPLE that 7 see, it is
dreary material lie that they seem to
me to live no inspiration Of the deepest
love IN it And yet believe that true
marriage holds the highest and purest
possibilities ofhuman happiness.-Phobe
! Carr. Htk
One may live as a conqueror;or king
or magistrate, hut he must die man.
The bed of death brings every hnman
being to his pure individuality, to the
in tense contemplation of that deepest
-. Il