Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-20
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S'ft snat 10 uOt
to do good.
The greatest of faults IS to be con.
scious of none.
The best part of beauty ia that
which a picture cannot express.
Sincerity ia an excellent instru.
ment for the speedy dispatch of
business.
He who reigns within himself, and
rules his passions. desires and fears,
is more than king.
How happy is a poetl An hour
OF his life becomes everlasting life TO
thousands sitter him.
He who misrepresents what he
ridicules does not ridicule what he
misrepresehts.
1t is the work of philosopher to
be every DAY subduing his passions,
and laying aside his prejudices.
We must be afraid of neither pow.
erty, nor exile, nor Imprisonment !;
of fear itself, only, we should be
afrsii.
Solitude has healing CONSIDER,
friend, companion; il is work. He
who has not lived alone, knows not
what work is.
Of all the possessions of this life,
fame IS the noblsst. When the body
has sunk into the dust, tho great
name still lives.
The sure sign of ago is loneliness.
While man finds company IN him.
self and his pursuits he cannot grow
old, whatever his years r sy be.
Convey thy love to thy friend as
an arrow TO the marx 90 stick there:
not as ball against the wall, TO
bound back to thee.
Outwsrd actions can never give a
just estimate of us, since there are
many perfections of man which
are not capable of appearing in &C
tons.
Tears are not manly Weil, the
highest type of manhood that ever
blessed earth with His presence
wept on more than one occasion.
Josh Billings Philosophy: When
man has done me l absolute good
turn he kans kross it off from mi
books, dou't kare how mean be
may be afterwards.
A ruler who appoints any man to
an Office, when there is in his do
minions. another man better quail
fed for it. sins against God and
against the state.
Punctuality is a debt which it
behooves every one TO pay. Every
business and household in which it
is disregarded must eventually be.
come wholly disorganizsd.
Women are never alone 10 Ma.
ture. The deep thoughtfulness of
the old saying ever holds good.
Man, the first created, was alone in
Nature woman was never alone
there.
1t was q very pretty reply made
by little girl to the statement that
our Savior was never seen to smile:
"DidD't he say, Suffer little children
to come unto me p and they would
not have come unless be he'd smiled y
When we consider thoughtfully
what we might be and what we are,
| death seems not so sad as life, and
the chances of the future, with all
its uncertainty, to be preferred to q
present being in which we have 30
signally failed of our ideal.
The Office Of religion is, not to
drive US back upon ourselves in anx-
ious self.criticism, but to take us out
of ourselves aud unite us to the
whole, 10 loving self, abandonment.
A man must take himself for better
OF worse, and forget himself so
shall be the soonest arrive at the
beautiful vision.
There are two sorts of ignorance:
we phiIosophise to escape ignorance;
We start from the ono, we repose in
the other; they are the goals from
which, and 10 which, We tend and
the pursuit of knowledge is but 9
course between two igaorances, az
human life is only travelling from
grave to grave.
Every one is forward TO compla q
Of the prejudices that mislead other
men and parties, as if be were free
and had none Of bis own. This be.
ing objected on all sides it ia sgresd
that it is fault aud a hindrance e
knowledge. What now is the cure
| No other but this, that every mar
should let alone others prejudicei
and examine bis own.
If life be battle, how mad mus
be he who fails to arm himself FOL
the contest If life be q storm, how
infatuated is be who sleeps Will,
bis bark ia driven amid unknowr
waters Iflife bs 8 pilgrimage, hos
! lnwise is be who slrays from tbt
RICH. road, nor seeks to r. arm I'll
the twilight shadows gatasr aroanc
bis pathway.