The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-17
Selected Miscellany.

| All men have their imprudent DAVIS.
Nothing oyercomes passion more than
silence.
If you have the mind, you can make
your child mind.
Ideas are the great warriors of the
world. General Garfield
Read only such things as you can af-
ford to store in memory's treasury.
We lose the peace Of years when we
hunt after the rapture of moments.
Truth is violated by falsehood, and it
may be equally outraged by silence.
/ 1t is a good rule to find out whether
it is bread or stone before you bite it.
would rather feel conjunction than
know how to define it Thomas Il. Kem-
pis.
It takes just three people to keep
secret properly, but two OF the three
must be dead.
He who puts bad construction on
good act reveals his own wickedness of
| heart.
If idleness does not produce vice or
| malevolence, it commonly produces
| melancholy.
Each man has an aptitude born with
him to do easily some feat impossible to
| any other.
Modesty is worth what shadows are
In painting; she gives to it strength and
relief
Brains cannot be measured by the
| size of the head, nor eloquence by the
extent of the mouth.
We cannot too soon convince our
selves how easily we may be dispensed
with in the world.
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude
pleasures, but seldom opens any avenue
| to sorrow or renlorse.
1t is wonderful to note the number OF
men who see the value of thing after
| it is beyond their reach.
To acquire few tongues is the task
| of a few years; but to be eloquent in
one is the labor of a lifetime.
The hardest rock is made of the soft
est mud. Don't allow the sentiment of
habit to harden into vice.
Good taste rejects excessive nicely;
it treats little things, and is not hurt by
them. -F'enelom.
1t always seems to me sort of clev-
er stupidity only to have one sort of tai
ent-almost like carrier pigeon.
We appreciate no pleasure unless we
are occasionally deprived of them. Re-
straint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
Strive to impress on your children
| that the only disgrace attaching to hon
est work is the disgrace of doing it
badly. So
There is authority for the statement
that a good name is better than riches,
but those who have neither should strive
for both.
Many persons who are ashamed to do
manual labor themselves are not asham-
ed to cheat those who do it for them out
of their wages.
All errors spring up in the neighbor-
hood of some truth; they grow round
about it, and for the most part derive
their strength from such contiguity.
He who wishes to exert useful in
fiuence must be careful to insult moth
ing. Let him not be troubled by what
seems absurd, but let him eonsecrate
his energies to the creation of what is
good: He must not demolish, but build.
He must raise temples where mankind
may come and partake of the purest
pleasure. Goethe.
No man who has reached the age of
three-score years and ten, would upon
reflection, be willing to rub out from his
experience in life the sorrows which
have softened his character, the mis-
takes which have taught him wisdom,
or the wrong-doings which he has ever
regretted, and which by their Influences
have been formed in the texture of his
normal character.