Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-12-22
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Men should be tried before they are
trusted.
The loafer is the idle of the people
hampton.
The society of women is the element
Of good manners.
We may be as good as we please, il
we please to be good.
AFFECTION hides three times IS many
virtues as charity does sins.
Flowers that come from loved hand
are more priced than diamonds.
THE greatest trust between man and
man is the trust of giving counsel.
Az OLD home is like an old violin; the
music Of the past is wrought into it. .
How poor, how rich, how abject, how
august, how complicate, how wonderful
is man.
LIFE is full of bitter lessons, the
simplest of which is that one mans fall
makes forty laugh.
To MAINTAIN an opinion because it is
thine, and not because 1t is true, is to
prefer thyself above the truth.
LIKE beautiful flower, full of color
but without scent, are the fine but fruit
less words of him who does not act ac-
cordingly.
The firmest friendships have been
formed in mutual adversely; as iron is
most strongly united by the fercest
fame. Cotton.
So MUCH of our time is preparation, so
much routine, so much retrospect, that
the pith of each mans genius contracts
itself to very few hours.
ROUND dealing is the honor Of mans
nature; and mixture of falsehood is
like alloy in gold and silver, but it en-
baseth it.-L0rd Bacon.
IT Is only the vulgar who are always
fancying themselves insulted If a man
treads on another's toe in good society,
do you think it is taken as an insult?
FEEL no care Of coin;
Well doing is my wealth.
My mind to me kingdom is,
While grace affordeth health
HEALTH, beauty, vigor, riches, and all
the other things called goods, operate
equally as evils to the vicious and I'M
just, as they do as benefits to the just
Plato.
IF YoU want to be miserable and don't
know how, carry malice against human
ity in general You'll find the load the
heaviest one you ever carried -Keokuk
cute city.
The difference between honor and
honesty seems to be chiefly the motive;
the mere honest man does that from duty
which the man of honor does for the
sake of character.
LET us have done with reproducing
for we may throw out SO many reproaeh-
ful words on one another that ship of
a hundred oars would not be able to carry
the load.-Homer.
SORROW is a kind of rust of the soul
which every new idea contributes in its
passage to scour away. 1t is the putre-
faction of stagnant life, and is remedied
by exercise and motion,
A SWIMMER becomes strong to stem
the tide only by frequently breasting
the big waves. If you practice always
IN shallow water, your heart will as.
suredly fail in the hour of high flood.
CONSTANT success shows us only one
side Of the world for as it surrounds MS
with friends, who will tell us only our
merits, so 1t sllences those enemies from
whom alone we can learn our defects
Cotton.
In PEACE patriotism really consists
only IN this-tliat everyone sweeps be.
fore his own door, minds his own bust.
ness, also learns his own lesson. that
1t may be well with him in his own
house.
MEN's feelings are always purest and
most glowing in the hour Of meeting and
fare>vo , like the glaciers which are
transparent only at sunrise and sunset,
but throughout the day cold and gray.
--Richter.