The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-06
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
iToK is the dream of q simpleton.
TRuE nobility is exempt from fear.

Cox is the dream of simpleton.
TRUE nobility is exempt from fear. 3
VIRTUE is the politeness- of the soul. /
HISTORY is philosophy teaching by
examples.
Coop order is the foundation of all
good things. g.
To BE proud of learning is the great
est ignorance.
CONVERSATION is the vent of character
as well as thought. :.
THERE is no past so long as books
shall live !-Bul,Oer.
MIsFoRTUNEs are in morals what Bit
ters are in medicines.
If THE memory of an injury is cher
ished it is not forgiven.
ONE trouble sometimes makes us for
get a thousand mercies.
LETTERS which are warmly sealed are
often but coldly opened.
The more virtuous man is the more
virtue does he see in others.
WHAT the child admired, the youth
endeavored and the man acquired.
HARD workers are usually honest. In
dustry lifts them above temptation.
REoo1LEcr that triAes make perfec-
ton, and that perfection is no trife.
LIBERTY is no negation. It is SUBJ
stantive, tangible reality.-Garfeld.
IT IS often the case that men, for the
sake of getting living, forget to live.
COLD natures have only recollections !;
tender natures have no remembrances.
FRIENDS, if we be honest with ourselves,
We shall be honest with each other.
Macdonald
The virtue of prosperity is temper
ance; the virtue of adversely is forti-
| tude.
B1EsT is he whose heart is the home
of the great dead, and their great
thoughts.
/ The power to do great things gener-
ally arises from the willingness to do
small things.
You can not dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and forge
yourself one.
HE WHO obeys with modesty appears
worthy of some day or other being al
lowed to command.
THERE is many man whose tongue
might govern multitudes, if he could
only govern his tongue.
ELEGANCE of language may not be the
power of every one, but simplicity and
straightforwardness are.
By EXAMPLE we become teachers. IT'S
not what we wear on our backs, but
what we wear in our brains.
KNowLEDGE dwells in heads replete
with thoughts Of other men wisdom, in
minds attentive to their own.
| THERE is not so contemplate plant
or animal that does not confound the
most enlarged understanding.
A MAN who habitually makes mean re.
marks about the other sex is safe mar
to habitually keep away from.
We JUDGE ourselves by what we fee
capable of doing, while others judge u:
by what we have already done.
EACH man is hero and an oracle tt
somebody, and to that person, whatever
he says, has an enhanced value.
ONE of the mistakes in the conduct O
human life is to suppose that othel
mems opinions are to make us happy.
For to cast away virtuous friend
call as bad as to cast away one own'
life, which one loves best.-SOphocles
TREASON doth never prosper; what's the reason
Why, If it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Harrington.
TRUE politeness> is perfect ease AM
freedom. 1t simply consists in treatin,
others just as you love to be treate
yourself. 4e " 7@#
Il HAPPY then is he who has laid up i
youth, and held fast in all fortune,
genuine and passionate love for reading
Rufus Choate.
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