The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-23
SENTIMENT AND SENSE.

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SENTIMENT AND SENSE.
A WISE man changes his mind; fool
never will.-Spanish Proverb.
DEFER not till tomorrow to be wise;
to-morrow's sun to thee may never shine.
The wise and active conquer difficult
ties by daring to attempt them.-RoDe.
He that hath no inward beauty, none
perceives, though oil around is beautiful
A KIND word can no more die than the
noble nature which prompts its utter
ance.
The vices we scott at in others laugh
at us within ourselves.-,Sir Thomas
BrOUne.
He who stops to pick flaw in others
knitting-work, drops many stitches in
his own.
No books are so legible as the lives of
men; no characters 30 plain as their NOR
al conduct.
IT is right to be contented with what
we have, never with what we are
Mackintosh.
LET him who regrets the loss of time
make proper use of that which is to come
in the future.
THE fullest and best ears of wheat
hang lowest towards the ground.-Bish-
OPP Reynolds.
LIFE, as we call it, is nothing but the
edge of the boundless ocean of existence.
o. W. Holmes.
He is not only idle who does nothing,
but he is idle who might be better en-
ployed.-Socrates.
The superiority of some men is mere
local. They are great because their as
sociations are little.
LET friendship creep gently to a
height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run
itself out of breath.
A YEAR of pleasure passes like float
ing breeze, but moment of misfortune
seems an age of pain.
A NAN should make it part of his re-
Ggion to see that his country is well gov
erned.- William Penn.
The generality of men expend the early
part of their lives in contributing to rem
der the latter part miserable.
If man have love in his heart, he may
talk in broken language, but it will be
elOquence to those who listen.
The greatest man living may stand in
need of the meanest, as much as the
meanest does of him.-7honas Fuller.
If the disposition to speak we'll of
others were universally prevalent, the
world would become comparative para
disc.
A SIN without its punishment is us
impossible, as complete q contradiction
in terms, as a cause without an effect
Grey.
SUCCESS is full of promise till men
get it; and then it is last years nest,
from which the bird has hown.--H w.
Beecher.
ABOVE every other feature which
adorns the female character, delicacy
stands foremost within the province Of
good taste.
PERSEVERANCE is a Roman virtue that
wins each god-like act and plucks success
even from the spear-proof crest of rug
ged danger.
AS sins proceed they ever multiply; like
figures in arithmetic, the last stands for
more than all that went before it.-,Sir
Thomas BrOVne.
MoDEsTY is the appendage of sobriety,
and is to chastity, to temperance and to
humility, rs the fringes are to garment.
-Jere,ny Taylor.
IT is wonderful how silent a man can
be when he knows his cause is Just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong.
GENUINE politeness should now Ia the
heart dictates and as nature teaches; and
nature knows no affection, but charm
ing and unstudied simplicity.
FASHION il gentility running away
from vulgarity, and afraid of being over
taken by it. 1t is sign the two things
are not far assunder. -Hd.iitt.
If man is determined to do the best
he can, whether he drives cart, con-
ducts a business of million dollars, or
breaches the gospel, he cannot fail.
FRIvoLrrY, under whatever form it
appears, takes from attention its strength,
from thought its originality, from feeling
its earnestness.- dc Staei.
ALL human discoveries seem to be
made for the purpose of confirming more
and more strongly the truths contained
in the sacred Scriptures.-.Sir John Her.
scheU.
MEN trust rather to their eyes than
to their ears; the effect of precepts is
therefore slow and tedious, whilst that
of example is summary and effectual.-
Seneca.
The virtue of prosperity is temper
ance; the virtue of adversely is fortitude.
Prosperity doth best dis
cover vice, but adversely doth best dis
cover virtue. Bacon.
As frost to the bud and blight to the
blossom, even such is self-interest to
friendship; for confidence cannot dwell
where selfishness is porter at the gate.-
Topper.
CHILDHOOD, knowing nothing of the
future, imagines it to be the "golden
age" and mankind, having failed to find
perfect happiness, imagines that it is only
attained in childhood.
WHAT the gently distilled dew OF
Heaven is to the plants and flowers, sois
the kind voice of sympathy to the bosom
that heaves under the pressure OF LIES
accumulated sorrows and affections.
BE bountiful of the goods that God
shall give you to the poor and needy, for
to give for honor's sake, never made any |
man poor; and the aims that you shall
dispense will greatly profit both your
body and soul.
BEAUTIFUL it is to die for our country; |
beautiful it is to surrender life for the |
cause of religious freedom; beautiful to
40 forth, to bear help and healing to the
sick, the wounded, the outcast and for
lorn; but there are those who stay at
home, alone, unknown, uncelebrated, to
do and bear more thanis ever done in one
brief act Of heroism or hour of martyr
dom. In ten thousand homes are those
whose lifelong care and anxiety
wear and waste them to the
grave. They count it no praise;
they consider il no sacrifice. Ispeak not
but for the simple truth of that which
is to me too holy for eulogy.-Orvitte
DetOey.