The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-25
FLOWERS OF L1TERArURE.


We SOW many seeds to get few flowers.
Character is perfectly educated will-LNoval.
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The gratitude Of the lOwly is preCIous.-[Gsn
Howard.
A delicate thought is flower OF the mind
[Rollin.
To select we'll among old things Is almost equal
10 inVenting new Ones.-[Trublet.
Diversity OF opinion proves that things are only
what we think them.-I Montaigne.
grave wherever found breaches short and
pithy sermon to the sOul-[ Hawthorne.
Justice is the bread of nations. They are al.
ways famishing for [Chateaubriand.
Sorrows humanize our race Tears are the
showers that iertilize the world.-Jean Ingelow.
No human scheme can be 80 accurately pro-
jected, but some little circumstance may inter
vene 10 spoil it. BosSuet.
Remembrance Of the dead soon fades Alas in
their tombs, they decay more slowly than In our
hearts.-[VlctOr Hugo.
True friends visit US in our prosperity only
when invited, but in adversely they come with.
out Observation-Disclosures.
Aristotle was asked what one would gain by
lying, and he lacOnically replied, Never to be
believed when he spoke the truth"
The truly illusHiOus are they who do not court
the praise OF the world, but perform the actions
which deserve it.-[Tilton,
could never think well Of mans intellect
ual or moral character, II he was habitually un.
faithful to his appointments,-[Emmon
Flowers are banners Of the vegetable world,
which march In various and splendid triumph
before the coming Of its frults-(Argyll.
Poetry is the flower and perfume Of thought
and perpetual delight, clothing the common.
place Of life with golden exhslahOnH Of dawn
LLongfellOw.
Good nature is the very afr OF a good mind, the
sign of large and generous soul, and the pecu.
liar soil in which virtue roSpers,-[GoOdmRn.
A man should never blush in coniessing his
errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wi.
ser to-day than yeSterday,-LF, F. Rosseau.
Those who, without knowing us, think or
speak evil Of US, do us no harm; 1t is not us
| they attack but the phantom Of their own imag.
ination.
The block Of granite, which was an obstacle
in the pathway Of the wesE becomes a stepping
stone in the pathway Of the strong. -[Carlyle
What a folly 1t is to dread the thought Of
throwing away life at once, ana yet have no re.
gard to throwing 1t away by parcels and piece.
meal-[Howe.
When the summer day Of youth is slowly
wasting away into the nightfall of age, and the
shadows of the past year grow deeper and deeper
as life wears TO close, 1t is pleasant to look back
through the vistas Of time upon the joys and sor-
rows OF early years. 1--we have a home to shell.
ter, or hearts to rejoice with us and riends who
have been gathering around our tireside, then the
rough places of our wayfaring will be worn and
smoothed away in the twilight Of life while he
bright sunny spots we have passed through will
grow brighter and more beautiful. Happy, in.
deed, are those whose intercourse with the world
has not changed the course of their holier feel.
ing, Or broken those musical chords of the hes rt
whose vibrations are so melodious, so tender and
30 touching in the evening Of age