The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-04-12
Gems Of Thought.

Let them obey that know how to rule
| Shakespeare.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet
! miserable Lander.
II YOU would create something YOU must he
something. Goethe.
| UnIratcfulne,s is the very poison of man
hood or Philip Sidney.
a straight line is the shortest in morals as in
mathematics. Maria Edgeworth.
A. every thread of gold is valuable 80 is
every minute of time. REV. John Mason
knavery is supple, and can bend. but honesty
/, firm and upright, and yields not. TColton
Too great refinement is false delicacy and
true dciicacy is solid refinement [Rocncfou-
cauld
The more we do the more we can do; the
| more busy we are. the more leisure we have
| llazlitt.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The
| former is but human. the latter is divine. TIlo-
| sea Ballou.
40 principle is more noble, as there is none
| more holy. than that of true obedience
| Herr! Giles.
He who is the most slow in making prom
| iSe is the most faithful in the performance of
| IT, .ltptS>edl
Put hi, restriction on your pleasures BE
! cautious that they injure no being which ha,
| life. Zimmerman.
Whom amy calamity has been suffered, the
! first thing to be remembered is how much has
been escaped. Samuel Johnson.
Being less annoyed at the defects of others is
/ one of the best proofs that we are approaching
/ freedom from defects ourselves
Nothing make, the world seem 50 spacious as
| to have friends at IA distance they make the
latitude> and longitudeS. ['Thorcau
we should do everything we can for others.
/ if only to di>sipatc The thought of what they
omit to do for us. Nine. swetchne.
the way 10 avoid the mputation of impu-
| denrr H. not to be ashamed of what we 90, but
never 10 do what we ought to be ashamed Of
| TulieN.
| Inqui~fivc people are the tunnels of CONVEX
| ~ation. They do not take i'll anything for their
| own U-,. but merely to pass it to another Sir
X. steele.
| Whoever has contcnted mind has all riches
| 10 him whose foot is enclosed in shoe. is it
| NOT - though the earth were carpeted with
| leather: Hindu,
When we shall be endowed with our spiritual
! bodies, ! think they will be 50 constituted that
We may send thoughts and feelings any distance
ID 40 time at all. Hawthorne.
/ III The cnjoymtnts of Others embttcr Jealous
| minds they strengthen the humble spirit; they
are the beams If sunshine which open the two
! beautiful HoWcrs-trnst and hope. Emile Sou
/ Vc>tre.
| TO know how to say what other people only
| think Is what makes men poets and sageS and
| TO dare to say what others only dare to think.
| makes men martyrs or reformers. or BOTH
| MIS-. Charles.
| The compliments of the season. and a merry
| first Of April to us all. Take my word for this
| reader, and say fool told it YOU, if YOU please
! That he Who hath not driChm of folly in his
| mixture hath pounds OF much worse matter in
! his composition. And what are commonly the
worlds received fools but such whereof the
| world Is not worthy? And what have been
| some oi the Hndlicst pattern of our species but
/ - many darlln@s Of absurdity, minonS of the
! goddess and her white boys? Reader if YOU
| Wrest my words beyond their fair constructions
| II i you. and not /, that are the April fool
! Charles Lamb.
| The man who VIII engage successfully in a
| crusade against the evil of his own heart must
/ nave the spirit of il true knight. for he attempts
| the most difficult and heroic task within the
| limits OF human endeavor. 1t is comparatively
| easy TO run Il tilt against a fellow mortal or an
| external evil: but to set our lance in rest
| against cherished sin, Il habit that has become
| our second nature, and remOrselessly ride it
! doWn-to grappe with Il secret fault in the sol
| ltude of our own soul, with no applauding
| hands to spur on. and fight and wrestle for
| weary months. years perhaps, this does require
| hcrolSm of the highest order. and the man who
can 40 1t Is my ideal knight. Il. p Roe