The Republican journal., 1882-11-16
Gems of Thought.

Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a
bell. Richter.
Nothing is politically right which is morally
wrong Daniel O'Connell.
Absence from those we love is self from self .
\ deadly Punishment shakespeare
saw one excellency was within my reach ;
! il was breyity, and | determined to obtain it.
| Jay.
The grand essentials of happiness are some
! thing o do. something to love and something to
| hope for. chalmers.
The Christian religion, rightly understood. is
! the deepest and choicest piece of philosophy
/ there i. Sir I. Moore.
Be brief; for it is with words as with sun
| beam>-the more they are condensed, the deep
! er they burn. Southey.
| Fortune turns faster than a mill wheel, and
! those who We're yesterday at top may find them
selves at bottom to-day. Don QuiXote.
| \ man whose reason is sound never is with
| out perception of truth. if only ne has the af
lection OF understanding truth. [Swedenborg.
We must distinguish between felicity aud
| prosperity: for prosperity leads often to ambi
ton, and ambition to disappointment. Lander.
The talent of success is nothing more than
doing what YOU can do well. and doing well
NItttNtl YOU 90. w llUoul Il thought Oh lame.
.Iongfe0W.
think We cannot too strongly attack super
>tition. which is the diSturber of society: nor
too highly respect genuine religion, which is the
support of it. Rousseau.
Many persons. after once they become learn
ed. cease to be good All other knowledge is
| hurtful to him who has not the science Of hon
e>ty and good nature. [Monaigne.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for
the want of every kind of cultivation. but no
cultivation of the mind can make up for the
want of natural abilities. [Schopenhaufer.
At the bottom of good deal of the bravery
that appears in the world there turks mi~er-
able coWardice. Men will face powder and
steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Chaplin.
Let u do good. not to receive more good in
return. but a. an evidence Of gratitude for what
ha> already been bestowed. In few words.
let il be AL for love- and nothing for reward"
Jean lngeiow.
The way to subject all things to thvSelfe is to
subject thyselfe to reason. Thou shalt govern
many II reason govern thee. Would>t thou BE-
crowned the monarch of a little world: Com
mana thy>elfe. LQuarle>
1t is the miSfortune> of all miscellaneous po-
| lItlcal combinations. that with the pure>t mo-
lives of their more generous members are ever
mixed the most Sordid interests and the ierceSt
| passions of mean confederateS. Buwer-Lyt-
ton.
1t was very proper answer TO him who
asked why any man should be delighted with
, beauty. that it was question that none but
blind man could ask since any beautiful object
doth 50 much attract the sight of all men that it
i IN no mans power not to be pleased with it.
Clarendon.
What Waste. what misery, what bankruptcy.
come from all this ambition to dazzle others
with the glare Of apparent worldly success. we
need not describe. The mischicvous results
show themselves in a thousand ways-in the
rank frauds committed by men who dare to be
dishonest, bur do not dare to seem poor: and in
the desperate da>hes at fortune, in which the
pity i not much for those who fall. a. for
the hundreds of innocent families who are 50
often involved i'll their ruin. Samuel Smiles.
recommend no sour. ascetic life. | believe
not only in the thOrns on the roSebush, but in
the roses which the thornS defend Asceticsm
| Is the child Of >ensuality and superstition. She
l. the secret mother of many secret sin. God :
when he made mans body did not give Us
fibre too much. nor a passion 100 many. would
steal no violet from the young maidens bosom;
rather would fill her arms with more fragrant
roses. But a life merely of pleasure, or chiefly
| of pleasure, is always poor and worthless
! life. not worth the living; always unsatisfac-
| tory in lis course, always miserable in its end.
| Theodore Parker.