Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-06-21
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Men Of cold passion have quic

! Men ot colo passion nave quick
eyes,
Goodness is beauty in its best estate
Let them obey who know how to
rule.
Time will teach him who has no
teacher.
Fortune does not change men it
only unmasks them.
Prayer is the key Of the morning
and the bolt at night.
Youp goodness must have some
edge to it, or else it is none.
Free souls freely work; whoever
fears God, fears to sit at ease.
To do nur best when we know it
can be only second best is noble.
Ambition is the germ from which
all nobleness proceeds.
The gates of heaven are low arched {;
we must enter upon. our knees.
Mean souls like mean pictures, are
often found i'll good looking frames.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk
the earth unseen, both when we wake
and when we sleep.
He who has got nothing in this world
but to muse himself has got the
hardest job on hand that we know of.
By the way many people in society
waste their passing time, one would
think that they expected to live eter-
nally.
When u man begins to find fault
with other people he may well be adj
vised to look for evil in his W heart
and life.
The habit OF being always employ
ed is a great safeguard through life,
us well as essential to the culture of
every virtue.
Wise anger is like fire from the
flint there is II great ado to bring it,
and when it does come it is out again
Immediately.
To all men, and ut times, the best
friend is virtue, and the best com
panions are high endeayors and hon
orable sentiments.
Have the courage to speak your
mind when it is necessary to do 50,
and hold your tongue when. it is pru-
dent that you should do so.
Meaning goes but a little in most
things for you mean to stick things
together, and your glue may he bad
and where are you.
Home is not Il name, nor a form,
nor II routine. 1t is a spirit, Il pres
cncc. n principle. Material and meth
od will not and cannot MAKE it. Ii
must get its light and sweetness from
those who inhabit it.
Never lay Il stumhling-block in Til,
way of a man who is trying to advance
himself in the world honestly snd up,
rightly, for le is likely to walk Owe il
and laugh at you afterwards.
When you are disposed to he vain
Of your rental requirements look NJ
to those who are more accomplishc,
than yourself, that you may be fire.
with emulation; but when YOU fee
dissatisfied with your circumstances
look down on those beneath you, tina
you may learn contentment.
Sense and nonsense depend upoi
who sit in Judgment. A girl Of eightcei
thinks trash very good SENSE A
: thirty she would he ashamed to lister
to such stuff. We see in others onl'
what we possess ourselves. Much @
the misunderstanding in the world i
natural enough. 1t is only wha
il seen that is comprehended an'
known.
Temptations are true tests. and nc
cordingly are often the hest friend
we have. The man or woman VIII
, has no temptations can never know
the strength of principle he or sll
may possess. The merit Of a virtu
| il brought out when it is best 10y Il
enemy. The world likes the stron
and the good, but it never secs it ii
: it has shown itself by severe contao
and struggling with the opposin
, elements, and been on severe trial /.
: it were.