The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-10
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GRAINS OF GOLD.

ORAlNS Of OOLDs
Farnestness alone makes life eternity.
Candid thoughts are always valuable.
Working is the acquiring of knowledge.
Humility is the mother of contentment
The end of man is al action, not thought
Try TO get good and you are sure to get good.
Keep good principles, and they will keep you
He knows enough who knows how to be silent
The secret of olonging life iS not to abridge it.
Nothing is more easy than irreproachable con.
duct.
1t is good to be deaf when a slanderer begins to
talk.
None are SO old as they who have outlived en-
thusiasm.
We cannot do evil to others without doing 1t to
ourselves.
Time will do much for sorrow-pride, perhaps,
much more.
The defects Of the mind increase in old age, like
those Of the face.
We would do many more things if we believed
less in impossibilities.
Death and love are tine two wings which bear
man from earth TO heaven,
Truth is violated by falsehood and it may be
equally outraged by silence,
Confidence alone is the atmosphere in which all
human effort breathes and lives
Never scof at religion, is not only proof OF a
wicked heart, but of low breeding.
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother
has not made all other mothers Venerable.
The only way to Escape the control of low de.
sires is to rise sbove them in the love of better
things.
The honest man is a superior Judge, even in
things which seem to have the least relation TO
virtue.
The Italians have proverb that while one
devil may tempt the toiler, thousand dog the
drone.
We should employ our life in pleasing others
God loves those who study to please their neigh.
bors.
The lessons Of disappointment, humiliation and
blunder impress more than those OF thousand
masters.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things
Of life before he can comprehend the full value
of the greater.
Our sins like our shadows, when our day Is In
its glory scarce appear towards our evening how
great and monstrous.
In sad truth, half of our forbodings about our
are but our own wishes, which we are
ashamed to utter In Rly other form.
Beauty is a great gift of Heaven not for the
purpose Of female vanity, but gilt for one who
loves, and wishes to be beloved
The is no policy like politeness; and a good man.
ner is the best thing In the world, either to get
good name, or to supply the want Of It,
Wonderful that religion, which seems to have |
no other object than the felicity Of another life
should also constitute the happiness OF this
man is more faithful to the secret Of another
than to his own; woman, on the contrary, pre-
serves her own secret better than that of another
Leave our grievances, as Napoleon did his let
ters, unheeded for three weeks and 1t is aston sh.
ing how few of them, by that time will reql ire |
needing.
selflove is a medium Of peculiar kind; 1t |
nagniies everything which is amisa in others, at
he same time that 1t lessons everything smiss in
ourselves
II sell be denied for the good Of others, we re-
,eive imm asurably more than we can bestow
We have as many fountains OF happiness as there
IRE hearts and lives to whose hearts we minister
What is contentment2 The philosophy Of life,
nd the principal Ingredient in the cup of happi
less; a commodity that is uudervalued in conse
uence of the very low price at which it can be