Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-09
NO. l9.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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eDitome OF man.
Goldsmith said: "Women and music
should never be dated"
What Is that which flies high, flies
low. has no feet, yet wears shoes p
Dust.
A single sigh breathed from the bot
tom of burdened heart is a loud cry in
the ear CT God.
Why are many people like eggs? Be-
cause they are too full of themselves TO
hold anything else.
They who respect themselves will be
hOnored but they who do not care about
character will be despised.
The strokes of the pen need delibera-
tion as much as those of the sword need
swiftness.-Juiid Ward Hosce.
Pope says: "The boy despises the
infant; the man, the boy; the philoso-
pher both; and the Christian ALL"
There Is this difference between char
acter and reputation; character is what
one really is, reputation is what he
seems to be.
Death is the only monastery; the tomb
is the only cell, and the grave that ad-
joins the convent is the bitterest mock
of its futility.
Jokeing liz risky Dizziness; just for
the sake ov second klass joke menny
man haz lost fust klass friend
Josh Billings.
There is pleasure enough in this life
to make us wish to live, and pain enough
to reconcile us 10 death when we can
live no longer.
Passiouless characters are worthless
in good or in evil; their gentleness is
inability TO feel anger, their virtue in
ability to do wrong. .....-
Hope is the best part of our riches.
What profiteth the wealth of the Indies
in our pockets, if we have not the hope
of heaven in our soul2 -r
Mental pleasures never clOy. Unlike
those of the body, they are increased by
repetition, improved by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment.
There is no merit where there is no
trial and until experience stamps the
mark OF strength, towards may pass for
heroes, faith for falsehood.
We should always be very careful on
whom we confer benefits; for If we be-
stow them on the base-minded, it is
like throwing water into the sea.
What an exquisitely delicate precept
is that of the Hindoo law which says:
''Strike not, even with a blossom,
wife though she be guilty of hundred
faults"
Shakespeare SAYS we are creatures
that look before and after. The more
surprising that we do not look around
little and see what is passing under our
very eyes. .s
The rules of fashionable life drill the
character out of girls until they are as
much alike "a pins in paper, and have
about as much sense and sentiment in
their heads.
Let it be impressed upon your mind
let it be instilled into your children
that the liberty of the press is the pal
ladium of all civil, political and re-
ligious liberty
The liberty of the press is a blessing
when we are inclined to write against
others, and a calamity when we find our
selves overbOrne by the multitude of
our assailants.
Ii million people were standing to-
gether, and each person occupied ex-
aetly four square feet of ground, they
would all occupy but little more than .
square mile.
Laziness grows on people. 1t begins
in cObwebs and ends in iron chains.
The more business man has the more
he is able to accomplish, for he learns
to ecOnomize his time.
Lowell says of Carlyle, that 'His
imagination is so powerful that it makes
him the contemporary of his characters,
and thus his history seems to be the
memoirs of cynical humorist."
True religion teaches us to reverence
what is under us, to recognize humility
and poverty, and, despite mockery and
disgrace, wretchedness, suffering and
death, as things divine.-GOeths.
Vanity is a confounded donkey-yery
apt to put his head between his legs,
and chuck US over; but pride is fine
horse, that will carry us over ground,
and enable us TO distance our fellow
travellers.
If you must form harsh judgments,
form them of yourself. not of others,
and, in general, begin by attending to
your own deficiencies first. III every one
would sweepup his own walk, we should
have very clean streets.
Virtue is a service man owes to him
self, and though there were no heaven
nor any God to rule the world, it were
not less the binding law of life. 1t is
mans privilege TO know the right and
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Many readers judge of the power of a
book by the shock it gives their feelings,
as some savage tribes determine the
power of their muskets by their recoil;
that being considered best which fairly
prostrates the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Have the courage to give occasionally
that which you can i'll afford to spare;
giving what you do not want nor value
neither brings nor deserves thanks in
return. Who is grateful for drink of
water from another's OverfiOwing well,
however delicious the draught?
l heard of very old man like my
self, who was asked what his age was;
he answered, ''the right side OF eighty"
81 thought you were more than eighty"
said the inquirer. "Yes, / am beyond
it," he replied, "and that is the right
side, for | am nearer TO my eternal rest"
-Rololdnd Hill.
Language is properly the servant on
thought, but not unfrequently becomes
its master. The conceptions of feeble
writer are greatly modified by his style,
a man of vigorous powers makes his
style bend to his conceptions, fact
compatible of Dryden that rhyme has
often helped him to an idea.
Begin the education of the heart, not
with the cultivation of noble propensi-
ties, but with the cutting away of those
that are evil. When once the noxious
herbs are withered and rooted out, then
the more noble plants, strong in them
selves, will shoot upwards. The vir-
tues, like the body become strong and
healthy more by labor than by nourish-
ment.-Richter.
We know not what we are, any more
than what we shall be. 1t is a high,
solemn, almost awful thought for every
individual man that his earthly infiu-