The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-09-06
Passion evaporates by words grief by tears

Passion evaporates by words grief by tears
Silent deeds are better than Improbable words
Hope is the dawn OF JOY, and memory its twi-
light.
Most people are like eggs-too full of themselves
10 hold anything else.
\ good word is an easy obligation, but not to
speak i'll requires only our silence. which cost
nothing
The man who does nothing don't amount to
much. 1t makes but little difference whether he
= millionaire Or pauper HI is only stagnallt
pool, without energy enough to start ripple
The heart that is fullest of good words hath m
IT at least room for Satans temptation. Eve-y
promise in the Bible is thine to strengthen. quick
ell and encourage thy heart. [Bunyan
It is easy in the world to live after the worlds
opinion: it is easy in solitude to live after YOUR
own; but the great man. is he who in the midst
OF the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the in
dependence Of solitude. Emerson.
Philosophy is bully that talks very loud when
the danger is at distance. but the moment she is
hard pressed by the enemy she is not TO be found
at her post, but leaves the brunt of her battle to
be borne by her humber, but steadicr comrade
religion. LColton.
1t was prettily devised of .Esop the fly sat upon
the axle tree Of the chariot wheels, and said What
dust 90 | raise :" SO are there some vain per
sons, that whatsoever goeth alone or moveth upon
greater means, if they had never so little hand in
1t, they think II is they that carry it, Bacon
Is there any joy greater than that which is ex-
perienced by one person when he helps another
person There are some men so low down that
II Is SAID they cannot bear to have the smell OF
their clover 90 into the highway tor fear that other
folks Will get something that belong to them with
out paving for 1t: there some men who are
said To begrudge bees the honey which they take
from their flowers without leaving ANYTHING be
hlnd: but that is doubtless imaginary 4 man
whose heart does not respond to an act of doing
good or giving happiness is no longer a man He
has passed the line OF manhood, and should be
ranked among beasts,
Did You ever an insect light on spiders
web and watch the process of his imprisonment
one thread is thrown over him here and another
there. He is caught. but he vet use his wings
and for the most part his feet. But the spider
runs down and with his long legs strikes one
thread across him on this side and another on
that and if you stand and watch YOU will find
that his limbs are bound And by and bv he is
wrapped up so that he cannot stir. And then the
stroke is given which intuses poison into him. and
that kills him.
Life is a great web; and if a man rushes upon
IT. and breaks right and left, and is careless of
the harm that he does to others, the retrlbution
of Providence follows him: and those whom he
has offended turn against him; and one throws a
thread over him here and another there and he
laughs at Them but let him not ridicule them
tor enough of them will hold a giant And a man
who has contemptuouS indifference to his fellow
men. supreme disregard for theirrights for wears
and years and wears begins to find that the wheels
Of his affairs grow heavy. Nobody trusts him
everybody hlndcrS him; and he sits down and
says II have found out that this is deprayed
world, Yes, but the world found out that Won
We're Il depravcd man first. II have found out
that nobody will help d man who is not pros
porous. Yes, but when you were i'll prosperity
You did not help anybody. ~ find that a man
may have friends if he only has money" Yes.
but when You had money you were not friend
TO anybody who had it not. If you want friends
YOU must be friendly. This selfish disregard of
others rights and others welfare is that at which
the whole force of the denunciations of the gos-
pei are aimed Indifference to everybody but
themselves is one reason why men do not succeed
in practical life. BY that indifference they bring
the prcudices and dislikcs of the community up
on them.
On the other hand, a man who keeps about him
a clear atmosphere Of benevolencc. and lives in
the true spirit OF the gospel. which saws Look
not every man on his own things, but every man
also on the things of others. and is concerned for
the prosperity OF those who around about him
and is not swallowed up in his own prosperity
he Is gradually being prepared for prosperity and
success in life. }eecher