Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-22
Golden Nuggets, Bright and
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Repentance is accented remorse.

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Repentance is accented remorse.
Youth holds no society with grief.
A gracious manner wins populace.
True valor is FIRE /; bullying is only
smoke. .eai.s1
There is no service like his that
serves because he lovps. 2Hi
The lives of the best of us are
spent in choosing between evils.
A man does not please long where
he has only one species of wit.
Absence diminishes moderate pas
sions, but increases great ones.
Quarrels would not last long if the
fault was only on one side. ga
A mans worst difficulties begin
when he is able to do as be likes.
Often the coekloft is empty in those
nature has built many stories high.
Mems muscles move better when
their souls are making merry music.
1t is very easy finding reasons why
other people should be patient.
Women are new race, re-created
since the world received christianity.
The point of the thorn is small, but
he who has ielt It does not forget il.
Malice sucks up the greater part of
her own venom, and poisons herself.
Physic, for the most part, is but
substitute for exercise or temperance.
The saddest failures in life come
from the not putting forth power to
succeed,
Fear, unbalanced by hope is des-
peration. False friends are worse than
enemies.
How can we expect another to keep
our secrets if we cannot keep them
ourselves.
We often promise according to our
hopes and perform according to our
fears.
We often pardon those who weary
US, but we cannot pardon those whom
we weary.
A hesitating, tardy or grum yielding
to the wishes of another always CRATES
upon loving heart.
To be able to bearprovocation is an
argument of great wisdom and to
forgive is proof Of a great mind.
Where there is mystery, it is gener-
ally supposed that there must also be
mischief.
Man must be prepared for every
event of life, for there is nothing that
is durable.
A mind that is conscious Of its in
tegrity scorns to say more than it
means to perform.
One may read for strength, and gain
strength and one may read for moth.
ing in particular, and gain weakness.
You are all of You like the ocean.
which, distinguished by different APP
pellations, is, after all, nothing but salt
water,
Empty self-praise is said to smell
amiss that may be, but the public
has no nose for the detection of unjust
blame of others.
We would often have reason to be
ashamed of our most brilliant actions
if the world could see the motive from
which they spring.
Never was a sincere word utterly
lost never magnanimity fell to the
ground There is some heart always
ready to greet and accept it uuexpect-
eddy.
The vain glory of the world is a dc.
ceitful sweetness, and unfruitful labor
a perpetual fear, a dangerous bravery
begun without providence and finished
without repentance.
Stories first heard at mothers
knee are never wholly forgotten "A
little spring that never quite dries up
in our journey through scorching
years.
Women charm, as general thing
in prorpotion as they are good. A plain
face with heart behind it is worth a
world of beauty. Men who have tried
both, uniformity agree to this.
There is an animation from the heart
in genuine hospitality, which cannot
be described, but Is Immediately felt.
and puts the stranger at once at his
case.
Whenever you command, add your
reasons for doing so !; it is this which
distinguishes the appreciation of
man of sense from the fiattery OF syco-
plants and the admiration of fools.
The man who lives right, and ia
right has more power in his silence
than another has by his words. Char
acter is like bells which ring out sweet
music, and which, when touched acci-
dentally even, resound with sweet
music.
If I were to pray for taste which
would stand by me under every varie.
ty of circumstances and be source
OF happiness and q cheerfulness to me
through life, and shield against its
ills, however things might go amiss,
and the world frown upon me, it wo'd
be taste for reading.
Discretion is the perfection ofreason
ard a guide to US in all the duties of
life cunning is kind of instinct, that
only looks out after our immediate in
terests and welfare. Discretion is only
found in men ofstrong sense and good
understanding cunning is often met
with in brutes themselves, and in per-
sons who are the fewest removes from
them.