The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else
but the substitute of exercise and temper
ance.-Addison.
will accept life or not, but they can choose
how they will live.
The discovery of what is true, and the
practice OF what Is good, are the two most
important objects of life.
That state of life is most happy where sn-
perfluities are not required and neceSsaries
not wanting
Initiate time; Itdestroys everything slowly;
1t undermines, it wears away, il detaches, II
does not wrench.-Joubert.
The time for reasoning is before we have
approached near enough to the forbidden
fruit to look at it and admire.
1t is generally true that we Judge too bit
terly and hsrshly the faults of every office
which we do not ourselves hold.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of
wisdom. in the heat. We are sure to Judge
wrong if We do not feel right.-Hazlitt
Never be sorry for any generous thing that
you ever did, even if it was betrayed. You
can not afford to keep on the safe side by
being mean.
Hasty words often rankle the wound
which injury gives, but soft words assuage
it, foRgiving cures il, and forgetting takes
away the scar.
None are so fond of secrets as those who
don't mean to keep them; such persons
covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money
for the purpose OF circulation.
There never did and never will exist any.
thing permanently noble and excellent in
character which was q stranger TO the exer-
else of resolute self f-denial.-Walter Scott.
81 shall bel'' and Il might have beenr'
The former is the music of youth, sweet as
the sound of silverbells; the latter the plant
OF age, the dirge of hope, the inscription for
tomb
Before thou reprehend another take heed
thou art not cuipable in what thou goest
about to reprehend. He that cleanses blot
with blotted fingers makes great burr
Quarles.
Deeds are greater than words Deeds have
such life, mute, but undeniable, and grow
as living trees and fruit trees do; they peo-
pie the vacuity of time, and make il green
and worthy.
The young girl who begins to experience
the necessity OF loving seeks TO hide 1t; but
the desire of pleasing betrays the secret of
her heart, and sometimes reveals her hopes.
-Beauchere.
1t is for the most part In our skill in
manners, and in observance of time and
place and of decency in general, that what
is called taste by way of distinction consists,
and which in reality is no other than a more
refined judgment.-Burke.
We are ruined, not by what we really
want but by what we think we do; there
FORE never go abroad in search of your
WQnfQ-If they hn rQal wants will
home in search of you, for he that buys what
he does not want will soon want what he
can not buy.-COlton-
The works of person that builds begin
Immediately to decay, while those of him
that plants begin directly to..improYe. In
this. planting promises more lasting pleas
ure than building which, were il TO remain
in equal perfection, would at least begin to
mouider and want repairs in Imagination;
now trees have circumstance that suits our
taste, and that is annual NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1t is resignation and contentment that are
best calculated to lead us safely through life.
Whoever has not sufficient power to endure
privations and even suffering can never feel
that he is armor proof against painful emo
tions-nay, he must attribute to himself, or
at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his
nature, every disagreeable feeling he may
suffer.-Von Humboldt
The elevation OF man is to be sought, or
rather consists, first in force of thought
exerted for the acquisition of truth. Thought
is the fundamental distinction of mind, and
the great work of life All that a man does
outwardly is but the expression and compile
ton OF his inward thought. To work effec-
tually, he must think clearly; to act nobly,
he must think nobly. Intellectual force is
principal element of the souls life, and
should be proposed by every man as the
principal end of his being-Dr Claiming