The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-28
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Manner is one OF the grandest engines of
influence ever given to man.
A good resolution may come like a fash,
but it takes q year to keep it.
Flsttery is a false coin which has circula-
ton only through our vanity.
Hidden virture is often despised, inasmuch
as nothing extols it in our eyes.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the
passions are the voice of the body.
The veil which covers the hand Of futuri-
ty is woven by the hand of mercy.
Men seldom improve when they have no
other models than themselves to copy after.
You can not dream yourselves into a char
acter; you must hammer and forge yourself
one.
Modesty is to worth what shadows are in
a painting; she gives to it strength and re-
lief.
The preservation of life should be only a
secondary concern; the direction of it our
principal.
1t is easy to run down the accomplish
msnts of your neighbor, but harder to run
ahead of them.
A conscience is like a corner lot. Every
body would like to have it, but few are will
ing to pay the price.
Energy will do anything that can be done
in the world; and no talents, nc circumstan-
ces, no opportunities, will make atwo-legged
animal a man without it.
The man who acts on impulse will find
himself when near the goal just three PAGES
behind the man who acts on conviction.
We are sewing seeds of truth or error, of
dishonesty or integrity, every day we live
and everywhere we go, that will take root
in somebody's life.
Our system of thought is often only the
history of our heart. Men do not will so
much according to their reason, as reason
according to their will.
The man who at the end of this life has a
receipt in full of all demands from men viii
have more than an ordinary amount of
credit to begin the next life with.
Men say they can leave off this habit or
that any time they bring to bear the pres
sure Of their will against it; but would it not
be better to apply force against the forma-
ton of bad habits?
Good intentions are at least the seed of
good actions; and every man ought to SOW
them. and leave it to the soil and seasons
whether they came up or not, or whether he
or any other gathers the fruit.
Counterfeiting coin never succeeds in
spelling the character of gold; 1t only com
pels one to ring every piece on the counter.
So pretense never harms religion; it only
maEas a man a little more VVatclful
We will not accomplish much withoutzeal
and enterprise. But the mistake is often
made of supposing that zeal is hurry, rush,
recklessness and indifference. 1t is not so;
steady momentum is often more effective
than unrestrained vigor.
Nature seems to exist for the excellent.
The world is upheld by the veracity Of good
men: they make the earth wholesome. Life
is sweet and tolerable in our belief in such
society; and actually or ideally we manage
to live without superiors.
No man has a right to complain Of his lot
or of the times, or to call upon society to
help him, until he has done all he can to
help himself by industry and fidelity in the
place and calling where he is. And he who
does this will seldom have cause tocomplain
The world needs discretion as mucn as
zeal, and although the latter generally
usurps all the honors and glories Of herolsm,
the former does a great deal the most towards
carrying on the daily affairs of society and
states. Zeal, tempered and guided by discre-
ton, or discretion, warmed and energized by
zeal, is the true temperament for safe and
successful cOnduct.-Harry j. Raymond.
There is a great deal of religion which it
would never do TO incubate people with, be-
cause it hasn't strength enough to stake" 1t
is the kind that is always ready to teach
others what to do, but never has time to fol-
low lis own teaching. 1t is not a 10O-cents-
on-the dollar religion, withit books all open
for inspection, but a kind of 10 cents-to the
dollar affair, which is teetotal onthe platform
and then takes a private "nightcap" when
the public is not peeping through the win
dow. The only religion which is worth the
having Is well described by a colored phi
losopher, who once said: "A half q ton oh
coal, dumped right in front oh a poor mans
door, will tend to glib him more courage
ment dan a mile an a half OBJ promises dat
has a worm in de bud an nebber comes TO
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