The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-05-10
Gems of Thought.

The brave man caryes out his own fortune
.CerYante>.
Simplicity is Natures first step, and the last
Of Art. p. j. Bailey.
Humility does not make us seryiIe nor insen-
,ib!e, nor oblige u to be ridden at the pleasure
Of every coXcomb. TJeremy Collier.
He Who performs his duty in a station of
great power must needs incur the utter enmity
Of many, and the high dispeasure of more.
Atterbury.
Outward actions can never give a just esti-
mate Of Us. since there are many perfections Of
4 man which are not capable Of appearing in
actions Addison.
Every master has found his materials collect
ed. and his power lay in his sympathy with hi>
people and in his love of the materials he
wrought in. Emerson.
must DO something TO keep my thoughts
fresh and growing. ! dread nothing much
~ failing into a rut and feeling myself becom
ing fossil James \. Garfield.
l want sofa, as | want friend, upon which
| can repo>e familiarly. If | can't have init
mate terms and freedom with one and the
Other they are Of no good. LThackeray.
The commerce Of intellect loves distant shores.
The small retail dealer trades only with his
neighbor: when the great merchant trades. he
inks the four quarters of the globe. Lord
Lytton.
\ friend 10 everybody is often friend to no.
body. OF else i'll his simplicity he rob> his family
10 help strangers. and becomes brother to
brggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in
everything else. lSpurgeon.
The beginning of hardship is like the first
taste Of bitter food-it seems for a moment un-
bcarable: yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy
our hunger. take another bite and find it
possible to 20 on. George Eliot.
If this life be unhappy. it is a burden to us
which is difficult to bear if it be in every re-
>pcct happy. it is dreadful to be deprived of it
80 that in either case the result is the same, for
We must exist in anxiety and apprehension
La Bruyere.
The moral law of the universe is progress.
Every generation that passes idly over the
earth without adding to that progress by one
degree remains uninscribed upon the register of
humanity, and the succeeding generation tram
pies it, ashes rs dust. Mazzini.
one ought to love society if he wishes to en-
JOY solitude. 1t is social nature that solitude
works upon with the most various power. If
one is misanthrOpic. and betakes himself to
loneliness that he may get away from hateful
things, solitude is silent emptiness to him.
Zimmerman.
The rich and the free have choice; they
often choose amss. Yet no choice can lex
cepting for this world be rretreyable: and
that same being for whom the great life of
the world proved TOO much learns often. in the
loss of everything, what his utmost gain was
not ordained to teach. Jean Ingelow.
As pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion of
knowledge, in which those who hear us cannot
>ympathizc it is fault Of which soldiers, sail
oI>. Sportsmen, gamesters. cnltNators, and all
lncn engaged III particular occupation, are
quite rs guilty as scholars; but they have the
good fortune to have the vice only of pedantry
while scholars have both the vice and the name
for it, too. Is. Smith,
1t is the part of an indscreet and trouble
some ambition to care too much about fame
about what the world says of us: to be ALWAYS
looking into the faces of others for approval;
to be always anxious for the effect of what we
do and say: to be always shouting to hear the
echo of our own voice. If you look about you,
you will see men who are wearing life away in
feverish anxiety of fame; and the last we shall
ever hear of them will be the funeral-bell that
tolls them to their early graves. [Longfellow.