Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-17
SPBCTRA.
LIFE TO COME.

LIFE TO COME
glorious
For us who strive to follow. May Ireach
That purest heaven, to be to our souls
The cup Of strength in some great agony,
Enklndle generous ardor, feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty
Be the sweet presence of good dffused,
And in diffusion ever more inteuse.
George Eliot.
It is much easier to find a score of men
Wise enough to discover the truth than to
find one intrepid enough, in the face Of
opposition, to stand up for it.
Duties are ours, events are Gods. This
removes an infinite burden from the
shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying
creature On this consideration only can
he securely lay down his head and close
his eyes.-CecH
We should round every day OF stirring
action with an evening of thought We
learn nothing Of Our experience, except
we muse upon it.
In love, as in everything else, truth is
thu strongest of all things, and frankness
is but another name for truth. You are
less likely to be deceived yourself when
you never deceive others.
The whole universe is full of the males
tic and awful reality which would stir the
inmost depths of our hearts if we could
once realize and feel it-KesAu6 Chuuder
Seu
Take care that all is done in a sweet and
easy way; make no toll or task out of the
service of God. Do all freely and cheer
fully, without violent effort
The God of the Christian is the God of
metamorphoses. You throw grief into
his hand and he will give you back
peace; you give him despair, he will send
back hope; it is sinner he has touched
a saint returns him thanks-Madame
SzvetcAine
Occupation is happiness Industry is
health, Labor is bliss. On the opposite,
idleness is death. Idleness is suicide.
Idleness begets discomfort, and discon-
tent brings widespread misery. Few
scenes are more melancholy than that of
one great brain lying idle. How such
lofty soul frets. All the world goes wrong
with it and soon the inner discomfort
breaks out and assails the adjacent indus
trious neighborhood.-D David Swiue
It is no more possible for an idle man to
fkeep together certain stock of knowl-
edge than it is possible to keep together
stock of ice exposed to the meridian sun.
Every day destroys a fact, a relation, or
an inference; and the only method of
preserving the bulk and value of the pile
is by constantly adding to it, Sydney
/ Smith.
/ Heroism is an obedience to secret inn
pulse of an individuals character. Now
to no other man can its wisdom appear as
] it does to him, for every man must be
supposed to see little farther on his own
proper path than any one else. There
fore, just and wise men take umbrage at
his act, until after some little time be
passed; then they see It to be in unison
with their acts. All prudent men see that
the action is clean contrary to sensual
. prosperity; for every heroic act measures
itself by its contempt of some external
good. But it finds its own success at last,
and then the prudent also extol.--Emeyson
Does a bird need to theorize about
building its nest, or boast Of it when builts
All good work is essentially done that
way, without hesitation, without difficult
/ ty, without Boosting; and in the doors of
the best, there is an inner and involuntary
power which approximates literally to the
instinct of an animal; nay, am certain
that in the most perfect human artists,
reason does not supersede instinct, butts
added to an instinct as much more divine
than that of the lower animals as the hu-
man body is more beautiful than theirs;
that great singer sings not with less in
stinct thon the nightingale, but with more
only more various, applicable and govern
| able; that great architect does not build
with less instinct than the beaver or the
bee, but with more-with an inmate cum
ming OF proportion that embraces all
beauty, and divine ingenuity of skill.
that improvises all construction. But be
| that as il MAYBE the instinct less or
more than tina. OF inferior aninals-like
or unlike theirs,-still the human art is
dependent on that first, and then upon an
amount of practice, of science and of inn
agination disciplined by thought, which
the true possessor IF it knows to be in-
communicable, and the true critic OF It.
inexplicable, except through long pro-
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