The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-06
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Great souls have will; others only feeble wishes
Attention to small things is the economy Of Vir'
tue.
Repentance is the hearts sorrow, and clear
life ensuing.
Men may bend to virtue, but virtue cannot
bend to men.
One forgives everything to him who foTgiVes
himself nothing,
The doer of secret sin supposes it is he they
are talking about.
Spiritual hungerings and thirstings are satisfied
only with spiritual things.
Those days are lost in which we do no good'
Those worse than lost in which we do evil
Despise not advice, though even Of the mean
est The gabbling Of geese once preserved the
Roman state
We paint ourselves in fresco. The soft and fu'
sill plaster of the monument hardens under every
stroke Of the brush int eternal rock.
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.
Whoever would be sustained by the hand Of
God, let him constantly lean upon 1t. Whoever
would be defended by 1t, let him patiently repose
himself under 1t.
As every thread Of gold is valuable so is every
minute Of time and as 1t would be great folly to
shoe horses las the Roman Emperor Nero did
with gold, SO it is to spend time in trifes.
They who tread life's pathway ever bearing on
their faces an expression of cheerfulness are radi-
ant ministers of good to mankind. They scatter
sunshine ON all they meet, depression and gloom
fade away in their presence
He who never changed any of hisopinions new
| er corrected any of his mistakes and he who was
never wise enough to find out any mistakes in
himself, will not be charitable enough to excuse
what he reckons mistakes in Others
Think about yourself; about what you want,
yotl like, what respect people ought to pay you,
what people think of you, and then to you moth
ing would be pure. You will spoil everything
YOU touch you will make sin and misery for
yourself out of everything which God sends you'i
Won Will be as wretched as you choose, on earth
| or in heaven either
Even the weakest man is strong enough to en-.
force his convictions Goethe.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things
living which are to be desired when dying
Johnson
The years are Gods permissions-who aspire
May keep ascending higher, higher, higher.
The sculptor cuts the statue by degreesi
We shape the futures form and face with these.
Men are every day saying and doing, from the
power of education, habit and imitation. that
which has no root whatever In their serious con-
ViCdons.- Claiming
There is none made so great but he may both
need the help and service, and stand In fear OF
the power and unkindness even OF the meanest
Of mortals.-Senecd.
Life has its own conditions and demands
We hold its grandest issue in our hands
| The things unseen lie In the things we see,
| And human will moulds human destiny,
Not the blind letter would we venerate
That speaketh only TO the outer ear,
But in the silence Of the spirit wait
That when the Master speaks our souls may
hear.
| So that Ss summer blooms and autumn fades,
When happy days and sad recurent rise,
The memory of departed lights and shades
Draw us more surely to the ladelesS skies.
five only agree to what we like to do, our lives
are likely to be barren. II too much indulgence
will spoil child, so will humoring mind and
soul beget in it a disposition lacking in what +
nOblest, and wanting the qualities from which re-
suit the highest.form of benehcence. 1t is when
the water is meeting with opposition from rocks
and other obstructons lying in its way, that 1t
puriaes itself and deepens It's channel. And it is
when we go on our way, acting against the indis.
positions which attempt to fstter and impede us,
that we strengthen our minds and characters, and
do good service in the cause Of the Master.