Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-18
Words OF MIHdOm.

Feeling is no criterion of right or
wrong.
Adyersity is the balance to weigh
| friends.
To him that lives well every form OF
! life is good.
Choose those companions who admin
ister to your improvement.
1t is more honorable to acknowledge
our faults than boast of our merits.
It's human nature to love TO make
| experiments at the expense Of others.
You should consider your adversary
rs absent when his senses are departed.
Those gifts are ever the most accepta-
bic which the giver has made precious
Truth is hid by great depths, and the
way to 1t does not appear to all the
world.
Conversational powers are susceptible
Of great improvement by assiduous cul-
tivation.
The friendships of youth are founded
on sentiment; the dissensions of age re-
suit from opinion.
The first step TO se.f-knowlcdge is
sclf-distrust. Nor can we attain 10 any
knowledge except by "A like process.
Tears are TO be looked ut not as
proof of very deep sorrow. but ~ II
gracious relief to the killing intensity of
such grief.
The sun, that mantlcs the mountains
kissed by the clouds and the mornings
sun, and spccklcss as the lily's inmost
leaf, is not more pure than "A pure
woman.
Affections. like spring flowers. break
through the frozen ground Mt last, and
the heart which seeks but for another
heart TO make il happy will never seek
in vain.
Folly soon wears out her shoes. She
dances so fast we are all Of us tired.
Golden wires may annoy u n much a.
steel bars If they keep Us behind prison
windows.
No man can stilt himself up. or seek
applause on friends in high places, or
loud praise. If he belongs to the front
he will get there in time, and willrcmain
there when hc does arrive.
1t is very pleasant to see some men
urn round. pleasant rs a sudden rush
of warm air in winter or the fash of
freight in the chill dusk; they she'd
radiance on all around them.
Mountains never shake hands. Their
roots may touch, they may keep together
some way up, but at length they part
company and rise into individual, iso-
lated peaks. So it is with great men.
The gentle mind is like a calm and
peaceful stream that reflects every OBJ
lcct in It's just proportion The violent
spirit, like troubled waters. renders back
images of things distorted and broken
Strong. skillhIl men are often the gen
tlcst 10 the women and children. 1t is
pretty sight 10 see them carving little
babies ~ If they were no heavier than
little birds. and the babies always seem
to like the strong men best
4 great mind is like an elephant in the
ancient limo Of hattle-thc best allv If
you can keep him in the ranks. fronting
the right way; but ii he turns about he
Is the dcadliest foe and trcads his master
underneath his feet.
We smile at the ignorance of the saw.
age who cuts down the tree in order to
reach the fruits; but the fact Is that
bluUdcr Of this description j. made by
every person who Is ever eager and i'm
patient in the pursuit of pleasure.
One had better sail boldly In almost
any direction than drif without ans di-
rcction NJ all. One had better sail in the
maddcst storm that ever troubled the sea
Of life than l'c on the sra and drift with
any chance wind that chooses to blow.
Happiness is r frail plant which sell
dom lives long on earth. II springs up
when it will; often in quiet. shady nooks
and corners, but seldom in cultivated
gardens. II often blooms whore one
would least expect IL and then suddenly
and Unexpectedly dies.
let n face be backed by blood and
moitlc. let the soul be narrowed by ex-
pcriencc and made mellow rs n plowcd
field by burrows that have torn II up /:
lot it bc made charitable by tho sins Of
others, by sense of it, own sins. and
you have face that will wear "a many
changes Of expression n the wind and
weather.