The Dawson journal., 1883-07-12

who need il most take it least.
Prosperity IS no just scale; aiivel.-
slty Is the only balance to weigh
friends.
Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but in rising every tine we
The man who commands himself,
IS greater far than lie who commands
the world.
Blessed is he who Ioveth God.
and his friend in God, and lis enc
mics for God.
The more we do, the more we car.
do; the more busy we are, the more
busy we are, the leisure we have.
Time does not end all at once
It's ending in part, every day and
hour and moment.
In this world, full often, our JOYS
are only the tender shadows which
our sorrows cast.
hnavery is supple, and can bend,
but honesty Is firm and upright and
yields not.
l-.-No priaciple Is more noble, as
thete IS none more holy, than that of
true obedience.
In character, in manners, in stvle,
IN all things, the supreme excellence
IS simplicity.
God sends us ten thousand Joys
but we will not even stretch out our
hand to grasp them.
Charity is not a meteor which oc-
casionally glares, but luninary
that IS forever shining.
Never let your zeal outrun your
charity. The former is bat human,
the latter is divine.
lie who is the most slow in max
ing a promise is the most faithful in
the performance Of it.
As there is nothing in the world
great bat man, there is nothing tru-
lY great but character.
The greatest pleasure l know is to
IS TO DO good action by stealth and
haze It found out by accident.
In every man there is a loneliness,
an inner chamber OF peculiar life, in
to which God only can eater.
Duty cannot be neglected without
harm to those who practice as well
as to those who suffer the neglect.
Love in marriage should be the
accomplishment Of beautiful
dream, and not, as it too often is,
the end.
We are all building a soul-house
Eternity; yet with what different
architecture and with what various
care!
The work ofvanity and ambition
are demolished aud DESTROYED bv
tims, but wisdom is venerable to
4 posterit5.
Great results cannot be achieved
at.oace; and we must he satisfied to
advance in Life as we walk, step by
step.
Precept is instruction that is writ
ten in sand, and washed away by
the tide example is instruction en
graved on the rock.
Look not[mourntuuy into the past ;
improve tae present, and go forth to
meet the shadowy future without i
fear.
Sincerity is no sign Of security.
A stream is never so smooth, equa-
BILE, as at the instant before it be-
comes a cataract.
A noble man compares and esti-
mates himself By an idea that's high
er than himself and a mean man by
that which is lower.
Secrecy is the virtue Of a confessor.
And assuredly the secret men hear
eth many confessions, for who will
open himself to a blat or babbler?
Whoever has a contented ,mind has
all riches. 70 him whose foot is en-.
closed in a shoe, is it not as though
the heart were carpeted with leather?
We must choose between the ro-
nance of a man aud the mysteries of
| God. God only reveals himself
through lnany veil, but those wells
are not ialsehoodS.
The coin that is most current
among mankind is hattery, the only
benefit Of which is that by hearing
what we are not, we may be instruc.
ted what We ought to be.
The great desire of this age is
for doctrine that may serve to CON
dense our knowledge, sgnide our re-
searches and shape our lives, 80
that conduct may really be the con-
sequence of belief.
Fame confers rap1. above that
Of gentlemen and kings. AS soon
as she issues her pateut Of nobility,
it matters not straw whether the
recipient be the son OF a Bourbon or
OF tallow chandler.
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