The Republican journal., 1882-08-03
Gems OF Thought.

\ park without timber is no better than
| beauty without teeth and hair.
| Passion transforms us into kind of savage.
and makes Us brutal and sanguinary. [Broome.
The desire of knowledge like the thirst of
riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
| [Sterne.
Thought is the property of him who can en-
! terrain it. and of him who can adequately place
| it. Emerson.
Outrageous party writers are like couple of
makebatcs who int1amc small quarrels by
! thousand stories.
1t ayals nothing that man knows many
| things if he does not live according to what he
knows. Swedenborg.
II is better sometimes not to follow great
: formers of abuses beyond the threshold of their
| homes. George Eliot.
\ man that >tudieth revenge keepeth his own
wounds green which would otherwise heal and
do well. Lord Bacon.
The mind and memory are more sharply ex-
ercisrd in comprehendng another mans things
than Our own. [Ben Johnson.
We cannot BE too much on our guard against
reactions lest we rush from one fault into an
other contrary fault. [Whateey.
There will always be something that we shall
wish to have finished, and be nevertheless I'M
willing to begin. DIR. S. johnson.
\ mans first care should be to avoid the re-
| proacheS of his own heart; his next, to escape
the censures Of the world. Addison.
The Puritans hated bearbarbing. not because
! il gave pain to the bear, but because it gave
| pleasure to the spectators. Nacaulay.
We must distinguish between felicity and
| prosperity, for prosperity leads often to ambi-
| ton. and ambition to disappointment. Lander.
| Mental pleasures never clOy: unlike those of
| the body. they are increased by repetition, APP
| proved by reflection and strengthened by enjoy
ment. [Colton.
Memory is the power to revive again. in our
minds those ideas which after imprinting have
| disappeared. OF have been laid aside out of
sight Locke.
There is nothing III nature which enlaIgts
ones love for the country and binds it with will
| inc letters. the silver meshes of Il brook.
| Donald q. Mitchell.
Passionate Gliding carries rough language
! with it, and the names that parents and preccp-
| tors give children. they will not be ashamed to
bo>tow to others. Locke.
The rage Of people is like that Of the sea-
| which. once breaking bounds. overtiOWs coun-
| try with that suddenness and violence as leaves
no hopes Of flying. Sir W Temple.
If our sense of bearing were exalted we
| should have no quiet ur sleep in the senest
| nights, and we must iney tablv be stricken deaf
or dead with clap of thunder. Bentley.
The whole universe is full of Gods polvelot
| Bibles. Every sun, planet and satellite is a
separate volume. of which every paragraph
ana line is written by his own hand. [Elihu
| Burritt
| IT is not enough that we should dream with
| Plato. of a republic where man is free and wo-
man but serf. The aspirations of modern life
! eliminate like the greatest of modern poems, in
! the elevation of womanhood. TT. W. IIigginson
| The little have seen of the world, and know
! of the history of mankind. teaches me to look
| upon the errors of others in sorrow. not in
! anger. ! would fain leave the erring soul Of
| my tcowman with Him from whose hands it
came. Longfellow.