Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-04-04
Gems of Thought.


him less who censures all. and him
least who is insensible to all.
In private, watch your thoughts; in
company, watch your tongue; in the
family, watch your temper.
Will makes men giants. It made
Napoleon an Emperor of Kings, Bry-
ant a tutor Of passion. and the
martyrs masters of death.
Science is good piece of furniture
for a man to have in an upper cham
Der, provided he has common sense
on the ground floor-Dr. Holmes.
If man be gracious and courteous
to strangers, it shows that he is a
citizen Of the world, and that his
heart is no island cut of from other
hearts, but a continent that joins
them.
The truest help we can render to
an afflicted man is not to take his
burden from him, but to call out his
best strength that he may be able to
bear the burden.-Phillips Brooks.
He only Is great who has the habits
OF greatness; who, after performing
what none in ten thousand can ac-
complish. passes on liks Samson, and
tells neither father nor mother about
it.
Life is more than mankind fancies,
Not game OF idle chances,
But II steadily anyaDces
Up the rugged steeD of time.
I'll mans complex web of trouble,
Eve y sad hopes broken bubble,
Hath nearing most sublime.
Lizzie Doten.
True Joy is serene and sober
emotion; and they are miserably out
that take laughing for rejoicing; the
seat OF it Ia within, and there is no
cheerfulness like the resolution OF a
brave mind.
Heat and animosity, contest and
conflict, may sharpen the wits, al
though they rarely do; they never
strengthen the understanding, clear
the perspicacity, guide the judge
ment, or improve the heart.-Landor.
They who tread life's pathway, ever
bearing on their faces an expression
Of cheerfulness, are radiant ministers
scattering sunshine on all they meet
while depression and gloom fade away
in their presence.
II you have 10 money or lands to
leave your children, that is no reason
why they should go portionless.
The only legacy which Heaven gives
them right to demand-a spotless
reputation-is in the power OF every
poor man to leave.
II any man supposes that he can
do all his duty to God, to the church
and to the world, in a manner so
sweet and gentle, meek and wise, as
not to meet opposition and engender
persecution, let him try it and he
will soon learn his mistake.
Let but the public mind once be-
come thoroughly corrupt, and all at
tempts to secure property, liberty, or
life, by mere force of laws written on
parchment, will be as vain as to put
printed notices in an orchard to keep
off canker- worms.-Horace Mann.
Always say kind word il you can,
il only that it may come in, perhaps,
with singular opportuneness, enter
ing some mournful mans darkened
room like a beautiful FREELY, whose
happy circumvolutions he cannot but
watch, forgetting his many troubles.
Helps.
The fountain of content must
spring up in the mind and he that has
SO little knowledge Of human nature
as to seek happiness by changing
anything but his own disposition,
will waste his life in fruitless efforts,
and multiply the griefs which he pur-
poses to remove.
A tender-hearted and compassion
ate disposition which inclines men to
pity and feel the misfortunes OF
others, and which is, even for his own
sake, incapable of involving any man
In ruin and misery, is of all tempers
OF mind the most arniable, and
though it seldom receives much hon.
or, is worthy Of the highest.-Field-
ing.
While we converse with what is
above US, we do not grow old, but
grow young. Infancy, looking up
ward, counts itself nothing, and
abandons itself to the instruction
flowing from all sides. But the men
and women OF seventy assume to
know all; they have ut-lived their
hope, they renounce aspirations, ac-
cept the actual for the necessary, and
talk down the young.-Emerson.