The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-24
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

DIdV6SG are GQ0 b6uu0I0SU.
EVERY life contains secret misery.
A SMILE is the bay window of the hu-
man heart.
Ii man only loves loveliness, he does
not love at all.
THE good are better made by i'll,
As odors crushed are sweeter still.
IT is much easier to be wise for others
than for ourselves.
WHAT do we live for if it is not to make
life less difficult to each other
THOUGH voiceless every gentle deed
Has tongue to eloquently plesd.
IT is great misfortune not to have
enough judgment to keep silent;
SWEET is the breath of praise when Civ
en- by those whose own high merit claims
the praise they give.
IT is great art, to keep yourself con-
tented and happy, and it requires great
heart to make others so.
A PROMISE is "a just debt, which you
must take care to pay, for honor and
honesty are the best security.
IT is always better to keep out of
quarrel than to make it up ever so ami
cably after you have gotten into one.
GET but the truth once uttered, and tits like
A star newborn, that drops into its place,
And which once circing in its placid round,
Not all the tumuft of the earth can shake.
To rejoice in another.s prosperity is to
give content to your own lot; to mitigate
another's grief is to ALLEVIATE or dispel
your own.
OsTENTATIoN and much learning are
seldom met together. The sun rising
and declining makes long shadows; at
midday, when it is highest, none at all.
WHEN you do not need help from any
one then any one will help you; and
when you do need help the world is
somehow always looking the other
| way.
No man ought to complain if the
| world measures him as he measures
| others. To measure one with his own
yardstick may be hard, but it is also
| fair.
"TH1NKETH no evil" How very, very
pigmy dwarf shrub of the lowlands Is to
the majestic mountain pine, SO are we to
this moral nobility of soul.
IF you want. truth to go round the
world you must hire an express train to
pull it; but if you want Lie to go round
the world it will fly; it is light as a
feather, and a breath will carry it.
THE truest help which one can render
to man, who has any of the inevitable
burdens of life to carry, is not to take
his burden off; but to call out his best
strength that he may be able to bear
| it.
"NoTH1Na but real love-" says ;Bulwel
Lytton-'tn nothing but real love can re-
pay us for the loss of freedom, the cares
and fears of poverty, the cold pity
of the world that we both despise and
respect"
| We must let the old dry husks o.
thought blow away every day, for we
must ever change, and the wretched
narrowness that keeps some from parting
with what they have learned. to love il
pitiable and small, and serve clogs tc
their feet.
EVERY day we pass through all the
changes of human experience. We arr
children in the morning, with their fresl
young bodies andfeelings; we are middle
q aged at noon, having seen an end of al
perfection; we are old and weary anc
wornout at night.
WE can never have much confidence
in the uprightness of others until WI
have discovered some degree of upright
ness in ourselves. We are apt to suspec
everybody if we ourselves ought to b,
suspected, and just as apt to trust other
only when we ourselves can b,
| trusted.
THE only way to shine, even in thi
false world, is to be modest and unassum
ing. Falsehood may be a thick crust
but, in the course of time, truth will fin
place to break through. Elegance G
language may not be in the power of u
all; but simplicity and straightforward
| ness are.-B1yant.