The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-09

A FOUND Of care win not pay pound
OF debt.
Max tliay bend to virtue, but virtue
cannot bend to men.
Nor being untutored il suffering, ]
learn to pity those m affection.
CAL6kaf would soon starve and die of
itself it nobody took 1t and gave It lodg-
ing.
THE key to every man is his thought.
Casual thoughts are sometimes Of great
value,
BEAUTY and death make each other
seem purer and lovelier, HE snow and
moonlight.
PEOPLE seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy after.
The fiofe we do, the more we can do;
the more busy We Ore the more leisure
we have.-Haztitt.
A PHILOSOPHERS being asked to define
quarrel, said: at is usually the ter
mination of misunderstanding"
ENVY is passion so full Of confidence
and shame, that nobody ever had the
confidence TO own it.-Earl of Roches-
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SOME people outliye their manhood as
well as their usefulness. 1t would be
better for them and their friends to die
early.
The mind OF youth cannot remain
empty; il you do not put into it that
which is good, it will gather elsewhere
that which is evil.
THERE is no time IN O mans life when
he is 30 great as wlien he cheerfnlly bows
to the necessity Of his position, and
makes the best of it.
We sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav4
ing when the sun went down is weaving
when it comes up ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
HE who betrays another's secret be-
cause he has quarreled with him was
never worthy OF the sacred name of
friend; breach of kindness will not
justify breach of trust.
NEWTON found that star, examined
through glass furnished by smoke, was
diminished into q speck Of light. But
no smoke ever breathed 80 thick a mist
as envy or detraction. Il. Wiitnott.
MERE bashfulness without merit is
awkwardhessj and merit without mo les
ty, insolence. But modest merit has O
double claim to acceptance, and general
ly meets with as many patrons as be-
holders. Addison. ..,
WHEN we are out of sympathy with
the young, then think our work in this
world is over. That is O sign that the
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dreadful kind of old age.-George Mac
Donald.
KEPLER, the astronomer, was one day
called by his wife from his study of the
natural forces to dinner, and salad was
laid ON the table. "Dost thou think, y
said he to his spouse, "that if leaves Of
lettuce and drops of oil and vinegar and
fragments Of hard-boiled eggs has been
in circulation from eternity in chaos,
that chance could have assembled them
to-day to form a salad?" "Not as good
a one as this" said his wife; "nor as
well seasoned"
For ourselves We own that we do moi
understand the common phrase. ga
good man, but bad king" We can as
easily conceive a good man and an I'm.
natural father, or O good man and O
treacherous friend. If in the most i'm.
portant of all human relations we find
him Charles L. to have been selfish,
cruel and deceitful, we shall take the
liberty to call him bad man, in spite of
oil his temperance at table, and all his
regularity at chapel.-Macautay.
How little the all-important art Of
making our meaning pellucid is studied
now! Hardly any popular writer, ex-
cept myself, thinks of it. Many seem to
aim at being Obscure. Indeed, they may
be right enough in one sense; for many
readers give credit for profundity te
whatever is obscure, and call all that il
perspicuous shallow. But Coragg1o!and
think of A. d. 1850. Where will you,
Emerson be then? But Herodotus vii
still be read with delight. We must dc
our best to be read, too.-E B. Macau'
Lay.
CUTE and CHEEKY Oliver Wendell
Holmes makes note of the gentler Sc,
thus. Women are such strange crea
lures Is there any trick that love and
their own fancies do not play them
Just see how they marry? A woman
that gets hold Of bit of manhood il
like one of those Chinese wood-carveri
who work on any odd, fantastic root tina
comes to hand. I should like to see an,
kind of man distinguishable from {
gorilla that some good and even pretty
woman could not shape husband ou
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