The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-01
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

lis much to know in life our proper task,
let more to do, when well We know work;
Into LItes harvest none are sent to shirk--
OF others toll the gifts of labor ask:
Why should beg !--coudst give me all the wealth
OF all the world, might not hold it fast
could but die a mendicant at last
1t Is not mine the gold get by stealth:
Only IN doing may the arm grow strong,
The mind be strengthened in its own high thought
And "urS-ourS only what our hands have wrought
The sole sure wages that to Toll belong.
u" then tiny task and trust the gods decree,
That as thy work thy recomrensc shall be.
We are not merely working intellectual ma
chimes. but social puzzles, whose solution is the
work Of a life.
Glory is well enough for a rich man; but it is
"t very little consequence to a poor man with a
large family.
We learn to climb by keeping our eyes not on
The hills that lie behind, but on the mountains that
rise before US.
The human heart is made for love as the house
hold hearth for fire: and for truth as the house
hold lamp for light
10 neglect at any time preparation for death is
To- steep at our post at siege; but to omit il in
"ld age. Is to sleep at an attack.
Perseverance is Roman virtue that wins each
-"dllke act, and Plucks success even from the
spear proof crest of rugged danger
Sunshine is powerful treatment for diseases
II You aspire to health and happiness YOU must
allow the sunlight to come into your houses
We should give as should receive cheerfully
quickly and without hesitation, for there is no
grace in the benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Skeptcisln HIS never founded empires. esab
lShed priucpalitcs, or changed the worlds heart
7 he great doors in history have always been men
of faith.
Let 4 man keep the law, any law, and his path
way will be strewn with satisfaction There is
more difference III the quality Of our pleasure than
the amount.
Out OF one hundred men you run against. YOU
Wlll h4d ninety nlne worrying themselves into low
spirits and indigestion about troubles that will
never come.
y daughter is almost always right when she en-
beavers to initiate her mother but we do not
think the mother is right, when, at certain period
OF life, she tries all she to initiate her daughter
Mems lives should be like the DAYS, more bean
ttul in the evening, or like the spring, agow with
promises; and like the autumn, rich with golden
deeds, where good works and deeds have ripened
on the field
Put that idea Of knowing all things in heaven
and earth out of your heads 1t is very little that
we can ever know either of the WAYS of Proyi-
dcnce or the laws of existence. But that little ;s
enough, and exactly enough
There Is no art or science that is too difficult for
industry to attain to- Industry makes man nm
derstood and valued in all countries and by all
nations; it is the philosophers stone that turns
almost everything into gold
\ man can stand an occasional httle Iisnpta
with his wife; but long gloomy. teartn after
sulklng on her part will, like sirocco wind hlow
out at last all his lights. thoughts ana lows and
in the end, the light of life itself
Be not ashamed to confess that Won have hoon
III the wrong. 1t is but owning what Won need
not be ashamed of, that you have now more sense
Than you mad before, to see your error more hr
mihty to acknowledge it, and more grace to cor
rect it. ~
We begin life praying for pleasure. or money. or
fame: we change our request till at last we ask
tod to send us wisdom, and love, and honor and
liberty As Gods owD world is undergoingmghty
changes, is making oceans to roll where once was
ltnd, and making pralries to blossom where once
was sea and is fitting up planets for the homes of
men, so man landscape is always changing and
next year he will see and hear what neither he nor
anyone ever before saw or heard As when the
eye mas travelled over land and ocean, marking
every prospect it Immediately empties itself and
is hungry for other objects so the souI all througb
and through its depths, is fed onlyto grow hungry
1t is grand provision of God that the eve the ear
the soul can never be filled. [Swing
SPEAK kINDLY A young lady had gone out to
take walk; She forgot to take her purse with
hef ana h az. no money in her pocket Presently
she met niue girl with a basket on her arm
Please miss will You buy something from nv
basket = said the little girl, showing variety Of
book marks, watch cases needle books etc
lin sorry can't buy anything to day" said the
young lady 81 haven't any money with me,
Your things look very pretty" She stonned a
moment and spoke few kind words to the little
girl and then as she passed, she said again. I'm
very sorry can't buy anything from you to day"
"oh' miss !" said the little girl, you've done me
Just as much good as if you had Most persons that
n meet say Get away with you but You have
That was considering the poor How little it
costs to DO that Let us learn to speak kindly and
gently to the poor and suffering. Ii we have moth
ing else to give, let us, at least give them our sym
pathy.
No man can frighten me with pictures of an out
ward hell, and a malignant devil, and judgment
seat curtained with lightning and smoke That is
poor tawdry stuff, fit only for the barbarous child
hood or the dotage of piety. But any eloquence
that pictures the poverty Of the soul for study and