The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-01-18

RaShness is not yalOr; doubtful hopes ought
TO make men resolute. not rash. Don 2uiNote.
We understand death for the first time when
he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Nine. de Stael.
4 taste for books is the pleasure and glory OF
my life. | would not exchange it for the riches
OF the Indies. LGibbon.
The proper function of Government is TO
make it easy for people to do good and difficult
for them TO do evil. Gladstone
We often excuse our own want of philan-
thropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the
more ardent zeal of others. LongfelloW.
We are bound, by every rule of justice and
equity to give the New Year credit for being a
good one until he proves himself unworthy the
confidence we repose in him. Dickens.
If the superior beings of the universe would
look down upon the world to find the most in
tere>ting object. it would be the unfinished un-
formed character of young men. or of young
women, lGarteld
Thee mu>tna underwally PRAYER. Prayer
magma bring money, but it brings US what no
money can buy-a power to keep from ,ln, and
be content with Gods will, whatever Tie may
please to send. George Eliot.
The days are made on loom whereof the
warp ana WOOL are past anu lutuIt tlult.
They are maestically dressed. as if every god
brought thread to the skyey web. This mira
Gle is hurled into every beggar's hands. Elmer
son.
Thou oughtest therefore, to call to mind the
more heavy Sutferugs of others, that thou may
c>t the more easily bear thine own very small
troubles. And if they seem unto thee not small.
beware lest thine Impotence be the cause there
of. Thomas a KempiS.
Allow ne man to be 50 familiar with you as
to praise you to your face. Your vanity by this
means will want its food at the same time
your passion for esteem will be more fully
gratitied men will praise you in their actions
Where you now receive one compliment you
will then receive twenty civilities. Sir X.
Steele.
A> the RAYS come from the sun. and yet are
not the sun. even 50 our love and pity, though
they are not Cod but merely poor, weak
image and reflection of him. vet from him alone
they come. If there is mercy in our hearts, it
comes from the fountain of mercy. Ii there Is
the light of love in Us, it is a ray from the full
sun of love kingsley.
Constrained worship is corporeal. inanimate
obscure and gloomy. But unconstrained wor-
ship. when it is genuine. is spiritual, liyid. lu-
cid and joyful; spiritual, because there is spirit
from the Lord in it: living. because there is life
from the Lord in it; lucid. because there is
wisdom from the Lord in It; and joyful. be-
cause there is heaven from the Lord III it.
[SWedenborg.
No man can promise himself even fifty years
Of life, but any man may if he please live in the
proportion of fifty wears in forty let him rise
early. that he may have the day before him
and let him make the most of the day. by deter
mining to spend ii on two sorts of acquaintance
only-those by whom something may be got.
and those from whom something may be learn
ed. Cotton.
There comes time when men feel that they
are born into a new earth, under new heaven
They see Gods presence as they ddnot before
they behold the sublimity of duty; they fee
themselves heirs of immortality; they long tc
make the earth better than it is; they rejoice
with exceeding great JOY in the privilege OF be
ing CO. workers with God. Then they can say
| Yes, we are indeed orn again. Henry Blanch-
ard.
Many women beguile men to ruin with
smiles Men can be begucd from ruin with
smiles Indeed | think mpltitudes are per
mtted to 90 TO destruction because women are
50 unatractive. 50 absorbed in themselves and
their nerves. If mothers and wives maidens
and Old maids, would all commence playing
the agreeable to the men of their household anG
circle, not for the sake of a few compliments
but for the purpose of Turing them from eyi
and making them better, the world will improve
at once. +. +. Roe.