The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-05-04
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Inc DoSC DeQanCe LOT enVyIuR auOtu-
er's merit is to try to surpass it.
II you want enemies. excel them; if you
want friends let others excel you.
1t is no point of wisdom for man
to beat his brains about things impossi
BILE.
We know that we must meet to part,
but we know not that we part to meet
again.
Genius makes It's observations in
shorthand; talent writes them out at
length.
/ look into mans face and see how
how cheerful it is, and then know how
wise he is.
There is no one study that is not capa-
BILE of delighting us after a little appli-
cation to it,
The reproaches of enemies should
quicken US to duty, and not keep us
from it.
Let your inclination be to those who
advise rather than to those who praise
your conduct.
Next to a life of stirring action, is a
life devoted to the study of the princi-
Piles of action.
If there is any great and good thing in
store for you, it will not come at first or
second call.
Man cannot dream himself into a no.
BILE character; he must achieve it by
diligent effort.
The best way for a man to get out of
lowly position is to be censpicuously
effective in it,
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take so much pleasure in noticing them
in others.
There is delicious sarcasm in the old
proverb, ''God help the rich, because
the poor can beg"
To acquire few tongues is the task
of few years, but to be eloquent in one
is the labor of lifetime.
Every evil is followed by it's punish
ment. It is as if evil had its punishment
inscribed upon it.
No man ever made an illfgure who
understood his own talents, nor a good
one who mistook them.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our
antagonist is our helper.
The most influential man, in free
country at least, is the man who has the
ability, as we'll as the courage, to speak
what he thinks when occasion may re-
quire it.
A patent describes q steel ribbon lined
with leather, to be used for driving
belts. The patent is issued upon the
novel method of connecting the metal
and the leather.
General Fremont suddenly discovers
that he has claim on the Golden Gate.
1t ie q wonder that some Of the old fel-
lows who live in the future times back"
do not claim the golden stairs.
Miss Julia Test of Richmond, Ind,
has Just recovered watch lost in Pull
man sleeper three years ago. In rebuild
ing the car the workmen found the
watch wedged in q corner of the birth.
The meanest man on record sent
through postofiice presided over by q
woman . postal card on which was writ
ten, "Dear Jack Here's the details OF
that scandal" And the rest was in
Greek.
Fogg can cay . neat thing when he
wishes. When Miss Frankincense asked
him, pointing ct mirror, what he
thought Of her pier, he replied, II think
that in it alone can you find your peer
in beauty"
Seven months ago Poughkeepsie
lady broke on needle in the palm OF
her right hand and was unable TO extract
II. The wound healed in a few days, and
last Saturday the needle came out OF
her heel.
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.
The spirit Of fashion 10 not the beauti-
| full, but the willful; not the graceful,
bat the fantastic; not the superior in the
abstracts, but the superior in the worst
OF all concretss--the vulgar. Leigh
Hunt.
The Rev. DIR. Nagoun. one Of Phila-
| delphia's Baptist ninistars, told . New
York conference that there were plenty
Of nAsrow-minded persons in every d.
| nominaeion Who worship God through
| inherited 6oar, and put aside reliGfon
With 1heir Sunday clolAes. They ~ Il
mooo 9 numoEoos - ~ eands q ~ -,
"a have - soel saouoh 70 give bah .
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