The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-09-26
LIBERAL GEMS OF THOUGHT.


Love cannot fully admit the feeling that the
beloved object may die; all passions feel their
object to be as eternal asithemselves
The great see the world at one end by fiattery
the little at the other end by neglect the mean
ness which both discover is the same.
You may gain applause by one great, wise, or
fortunate action; to avoid censure, you must pass
a whole life without saying one bad or foolish
| thing.
Whenever you find great deal Of gratitude in
a poor man, you may take 1t for granted there
would be as much generosity If he were a rich
man.
Persons who outlive their income by splendor
in dress or equipage, are well said 10 resem BILE
town on fire-which shines by thatwhich destroys
| it.
The Aarrow-minded ask, ITS this one Of our
tribe or stranger7' But to those who are of a
noble disposition the world is but.one family.
man whose ambition is seriously set on grasp.
| ing q crown is not likely to be turned aside by
any paltry or personal temptations that beset him
on the road,-MrS. Annie Edward8.
Human society is not yet as happy as 1t might
be, on account of the imperfecHon OF its self
knowledge. 1t does not know its own goodness,
| or the origin of it,-Eizur Wright
Truth, even when ushered into the world
through the medium Of dull romance, and in
| connection with vast progeny Of errors, hoWev-
er rdiculed and despised at first, never fails in
the end of finding lodging-place in the proper
mind.-J, G. Whittier.
The intellect is to the will In man what the bri-
die and bit are to the unbroken horse 1t must be
led by the bride, 1t must be instructed and edu-
Gated, or it is as wild Snd fierce as the power
shown in the dashing waterfall, and 1t is, as we
know, identical with it.-SchopenhaWer.
Choose even the plainest road; IL always Is
best. For the same reason choose ever to do and
try what is the most just, and the most direct.
This conduct will save thousand bushes and a
thousand struggles, and will deliver you from SO.
cret torments which are the neverfailing attend
ants of assimilation.
1t lis an important species Of cultivation to SOW
early in the mlRd such maxims as serve, in a few
words to recall us in the path Of reason and pro-
priety, which misled by fashion, and which, by
fortifying our principles enable us to support,
with courage and resignation, the disagreeable
events to which we are exposed during the course
Of Cur lives.
Itis no exaggeraHon to say that health isa large
ingredient in what the world calls talent, A man
without 1t may be a giant in intellect, but his
deeds will be the deeds Of dwarf On the con-
trary, lei him have quick circulation, good di-
gestion, the bulk, thews and sinewB OF man,
and he will set failure at defiance. A man has
good reason to think himself well off in the lot
terry Of life If he draws the prize of healthy
stomach without mind, rather than the prize Of
a fine intellect with crazy stomach. But Of the
two, weak mind In herculean frame is better
than great mind with a crazy constitution. A
pound OF energy with an ounce Of talent will
achieve greater results than pound Of talent
with an ounce Of energy.