The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-15
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Childhood Ia the sleep of reason.-Rous-
seau.
Circumstaneesi make circumstances.
Napoleon.
A good conscience Is a continual Christ
mas.-Franklin.
Most men are afraid oil bad name, but
few fear their coDsciences.-Pliny.
There is no outward sign OF courtesy that
does not rest on deep moral founds-
tion.-Goethe.
Content is to the mind like moss to tree;
1t bindeth 1t up 30 as to stop Its growth
Halifax.
What we call conscience Is in many in
stances only a wholesome fear OF the consts-
ble.-Bovee.
Without content, we shall find IL almost
Is difficult to please others as ourselves
Lord Greville.
II ever s..15uld effect injustice, 1t would
be in this, that might do courtesles and re-
ceive ncne.-Feltham.
A good word Is an easy obligation; but not
to speak III requires only our silence, which
costs US nothing.-Tillotson.
We mrss be as courteous to a man as to
picture, which We are williog to give the adj
vantage OF good light.-EmersoD.
To neglect at any time preparation for
death, is to sleep on our post at a siege; to
omit it in old age Is to sleep at an attack
Johnson.
Covetous men need money least, yet they
most affect it.; but, prodigsls, who need it
most, have the least regard for it.-Alex-
snder Wilson.
We look at death through the cheap
glazed windows of the flesh, and believe
him to be the monster which the hawed
and cracked glass represents him to be-
Lowell.
When a man dies, they who survive him
ask what property be has left behind. The
angel who bends over the dying man asks
what good deeds he has sent before him.
Koran.
If thou expect death as a friend, prepare
to entertain him; II thou expect death as an
enemy, prepare to overcome him; death has
no advantage but when he comes a stranger.
-Quarles.
He that always waits upon God is ready
whatsoever he calls. Neglect not to set
your accounts even; be is a happy man
who so lives that death at all times may
find him at leisure TO die.-Feltham.
What Is earthly happiness' That phan-
tom of which we hear so much and see so
little; whose promises are constantly given
and constantly broken, but as constantly BE-
Heved that cheats us with the sound instea1
of the substance, and with the blossom in
stead Of the fruit-Colton.
1t is with honesty, In one particular, as
with wealth-those that have the thing care
less about the credit of it than those who
have 1t not. No poor man can we'll afford
to be thought SO, aud the less OF honesty q
finished rogue possesses the less he can af-
ford to be supposed to want it.-Colton.
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being well deceived; for it Is manifest what
mighty advantages fiction has over truth
and the reason Is at our elbow, because i'm.
aginatlon can build nObler scenes and pre-
duce more wonderful revolutions than tor
tune or nature can be at the expense tc
furnish.
A right mind and generous affection hath
more beauty and charms than all other sym
metres In the world besides; and grain OF
honesty and native worth Is of more value
than all adventurous ornaments, estates, Oh
preferments, for the sake of which some OF
the better sort % off turn knaves.-Shaftes-
bury.
The greatest man is he who chooses right
with the most invincible resolution; who
resists the sorest temptation from within
and without; who bears the heaviest bur-
dens cheerfully; who Is cslmest in storms
and most fearless under menaces and
frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue
and on God Is most NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
He that loses his conscience has nothing
left that Is worth keeping. Therefore bt
sure you look 70 that. And. In the nexi
place look to your health; and If you have
1t, praise God, and value it next your
conscience, for health Is the second blessing
that money can not buy: therefore value it
and be thankful for it.-Izssk Walton.
They who have read about everything arr
thought to understand everything, too, but
1t is not always so; resiing furnishes tbs
mind only with materials OF Knowledge; II
Is thinking that makes what we read ours
We are q rumipstiDg kind, and il is no
enough to cram ourselves with great loaC
of collections; We must chew them owe
again.-Chsnning.
The intellectual powers OF man are no
given merely for self; they are not intended
20 aid his own cunning, craft, and Intrigue
and conspirseies and enrichment. They
will do nothing for these base purposes
The instinct of 9 tiger. vulture or q 70
will do better. Genius aud abilities are
given as lamps to the world, not to SELL
Egerton Brydges.
Jeffersonvi.le Evening Esws-A rumo
was in town this morning that the extern
sive stave mill OF John Armstrong & Co..
located about one mile this sids o.
Scottsburg, was destroyed by fire at abou
O'Clock, and after mskiOg inquiries we
learned from q private dispatch that suct
was tbs facf, and though not entirely de
stroyet was injured to the amount Of
$500.