The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-04
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

WHEN anger rises, think Of the conse-
guences.
By attention ideas are registered in
the memory.
NATURE never says that which reason
will contradict.
ABSENCE destroys trihing intimacies,
but 1t invigorates strong ones.
AMBITION breaks the ties of blood, and
forgets the obligations of gratitude.
ALL things are admired either because
they are new or because they are great.
In IN angry instant man may do
what lifetime or repentance cannot
undo.
Too much sensibility creates unhap-
piness, too much insensibility creates
crime.
LET no man presume to give advice to
others that has not first given good adj
vice to himself.
IT is always safe to learn. even from
our manifestation safe to instruct.
even our friends.
EXPRESSION is of more consequences
than shape; it will light up features 9th
erwise heavy.
Things are stubborn and will be what
they are, whatever we think them or
wish them to be.
The heart, like balloon, is ightened
and elevated by throwing out some of
Its heavy ballasts of money.
He that boasts of his ancestors. the
founders and raisers of o family. doth
confess that he hath less virtue.
DoN'T be anxious until you are COM
PEELED to be- Many man worries about
ghost that never appears to him.
NATURE conft sses that she has be-
slowed upon man most susceptible
heart in that she has granted tears.
AN active career is not a path Of roses.
The moment you attempt distinction you
Will be abused, illuminated, reviled.
FIRST love, though the most ignorant.
is the purest of all; its bandage is closer
and thicker, but its pinions longer and
purer.
You may keep your beauty, and your
health unless you destroy them yourself,
or discourage them to stay with you, by
using them i'll.
FEW ideas of our own will save us
from being too sensible to external i'm
pressions, AZ light in our room makes
lightning less binding.
OUTWARD actions can never give a lust
estimate OF us, since there are many per-
fections of a man which are not capable
Of appearing in actions.
Don't be afraid of appearances so long
as your life is all right. No one can
better afford to have ill-tempered things
said OF him than the man who does not
deserve them.
We should never forget that home is
the residence not merely of the body,
but the mind; and that the object of all
ambition should be to be happy at home
and to render home happy.
THERE is conscience of the head as
well as of the heart, and in old age we
feel as much remorse, if we have wasted
out natural talents, as if we have pre-
verted our natural virtues.
If you have made a mistake don't
think it a condescension to apologize.
The true gentleman is always ready to
rectify blunder. Only the mule bites
with one end and kicks with the other.
No two minds are ever the same and
therefore, any man who will give us.
fairly and frankly, the results of his own
impressions, uninfuenced by the servil-
tiles of imitation, will be original.
ALAS, how soon the hours are over
Counted US out to play the lover!
And how much narrower is the stage
Allott. d to us to play the sagel
But when We play the fool, how wide
The the atre expands! beside,
How long the audience sit before us;
how many promptcrs, what chorusi
GIVE nature place to stand upon,
and she cannot be entirely subdued by
art An orange tree in box is still q
tree, and even the yew cut into the shape
of st. George and the dragon is more Of
growth than manufacture.
The wonderful fortune of some writer's
deludes and leads to misery great num-
Der of young people. 1t cannot be too
often repeated that it is dangerous to
enter upon career of letters without
some other means of living. An illus
trious author has said in these times:
Literature must not be leant on as upon
a crutch; it is little more than stick"