Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-08-14

Affected simplicity Is rehned lmpost-
ure.
A great man is always willing to be
little.
Weakness is more opposite to virtue
than vice ITSELF
The first man that ever had a spare
rib-Adam.
The worst way toimprove the world
is to condemn it.
Every bird pleases US with its lay
especially the hen.
Trifes make perfection, but periec-
tion itself is not trife.
We use our conscience chiefly to
Judge others actions by.
The prayer of certain old man was
ooh, Lord, give us more of the up and
doing"
Henry Ward Beecher says II will
never do "to preach cream and prac.
tice skim-milk," Henry knows.
Women as telegraph operators have
proved great success They send
the electric spark right through a fel-
low. nnf
No man does his best except when
he is cheerful A light heart maketh
nimble hands, and keeps the mind free
and alert.
1t is not enough To believe what you
maintain you must maintain what
you believe, and maintain it because
you believe it.
Without belief in personal immor.
tality, religion surely is like an arch
resting on one pillar, like bridge end
ing in an abyss.
/ am much more disturbed in socie.
ty by the little impression made by
real merit, than by the so-called Ia
mented tolerance of vice.
BY doining good with his property,
man, as it were, stamps the image OF
God upon it, and makes it pass current
for the merchandise Of heaven.
Help others, and you relieve your.
self. Go out and drive away the cloud
from that distressed friends brow, and
you will return with lighter heart.
Self-love is at once the most delicate
and the most tenacious of our sentl-
ments mere nothing will wound it.
but there is nothing on earth that will
kill it.
No man is so foolish but he may give
another good counsel sometimes and
no man is so wise but may easily err,
if he will take no others counsel but
his own.
Prejudices resemble the logs that
turn the bright sun into dull copper
ball and bad heart is like the jaun-
dice that sees its own dingy yellow in
the purest lily.
"a couple Of Belgian giants" says
the Cincinnati Globe, 0are now in the
city for the purpose Of exhibition
They are so long, that 1t takes two
days to exhibit them"
Virtue is more to men than either
water or fire. / have seen men die
from treading on water and fire, but /
have never seen n man die from tread
ing on the course OF virtue.
According to Wollaston, the sun is
800, 900 times brighter than the full
moon in other words it would take
800, 900 full moons to produce q day as
brilliant as that Illuminated by cloud
less sun.
A man who is young in years may
be old in hours, if he have lost no time;
but that happeneth rarely. Generally,
youth is like the first cogitations, not
so wise as the second; for there is
a youth in thoughts as well as in age.
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines. Some of the children may
like to learn them;
God gives the grazing OK his meat,
He quickly hears the Sleeps low cry:
But man, who tastes His finest wheat,
Should joy to lft His praises high.
Euripidos was wont to say, silence
was an answer TO wise man but we
seem to have greater occasion for it in
our dealing with fools and unreasona-
bic persons for men of breeding and
sense will be satisfied with reason and
fair words.
There are two yyavs OF attaining nm
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ihpor.ans emu. iorvo 'no perseverance
Force falls to the lot OF only priv.