The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
OUR best things are near us,
Tie closc about, our feet.

Lie close about our feet
A MAN must becomes wise at his own
expense.
Our friends faults reconcile us TO
their virtues.
MODERATION is the silken string run
ming through all virtues.
In THESE days we fight for ideas, and
newspapers are our fortresses.
To SELECT well among old things is
almost equal to inventing new ones.
THE purest treasure mortal times af-
ford is spotless reputation.
EVERY man has Just as much vanity
rs he wants understanding.
HE WHO has not mastered himself, by
whom can he not he overcome?
No SUCCESS has ever come without re-
peated struggles and failures.
MAN does not lack SO much the knowl-
edge of his duty as his will for it.
HoARDINa money is covetousness,
squandering it is equal folly and sin.
/ POVERTY may excuse shabby coat,
but ii is no excuse for shabby morals.
The divinity of charity consists in re-
ieving mans needs before they are
forced upon us.
Ir WAS maxim of Euripides, either
to keep silence OF to speak something
better than silence.
LOVE penetrates further into any tomb
4of, darkness and doubt than any other
faculty Of the human soul.
The most delicate, the most sensible
of all pleasures, consists in promoting
the pleasures of others.
NEVER fear to bring the sublimest
motive to the smallest duty, and the
most infinite comfort to the smallest
trouble.
POETRY makes hope formation, grief
makes it a solace, and desolatioD makes
it the brightest flower that adorns earthly
creation.
HE WHO is false to present duty breaks
a thread in the loom, and will see the
defect when the weaving of lifetime is
unrolled.
HE WHO is false to the present duty
breaks thread in the loom, and will see
the effect when the weaving of lifetime
is unraveled 80 @
FAITH, like light, should ever be simple
and unbending; while love, like warmth.
should beam forth on every side and
bend to every necessity.
BE LIKE the bird, that halting in her flight
Awhile, on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way beneath her and yet sings
Knowing that she hath wings.
= V.csor Hugo.
THERE is no sorrow I have thought
more about than that to love what is
great, and try to reach it, and yet to
fal.-George Eliot.
THE good things of life are not to be
had singly, but come to us with q mix
ture; like school-boy's holiday, with q
task affixed to the tail of it.
WHAT delightful thing rest is! The
bed has become place of luxury to me.
I would not exchange it for all the
thrones in the world.-Napo1eon.
If MAN empties his purse into his
head, no man can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge al
ways pays the best interest. II Franklin.
The best receipt for going through
life happily is to feel that everybody,
no matter how rich or how poor; needs
all the kindness he can get from others.
USUALLY the greatest boosters are the
smallest workers. The deep rivers pay
a larger tribute to the sea than shallow
brooks, and yet empty themselves with
less noise.
LOVE is the best investment of all.
save conscience aud the sentiment of
duty. These are the neasure-houses of
life, the great market wherein the shares
are always rising.