The Republican journal., 1883-05-03
Gems of Thought

Human foresight often leaves its proudest
possessor only choice of evils. [Colton.
Who can tell what just criticisms MUIR, the
cat. may be passing on us beings of wider
speculation. George Eliot.
Act and speak to your servants as YOU would
wish others to DO to YOU if YOU were a servant.
LDiony>ius the Carthusian.
Life is loving. and that soul lives the largest
life that Is true>t to his God and himself. and is
most useful TO his fellows. [G. H. Hartwcll.
BE What nature intended You for, and YOU
will succeed. BE anything else. and YOU will be
ten thousand times worse than nothing TSyd-
ney Smith.
What 4 pity that wrinkles should not be all
under our heels instead of on our faces II
would be much better arrangement. Ninon
de / EncloS.
The qualification which wealth can bestow is
| not IN mere possession, nor in layshing it with
prodigality, but in the wise application of it.
| Don QuiXote.
Whether religion be true or false. it must be
| necessarily granted to be the only wise principle
and safe hypothesis for man to live and die
| by. [Tillotson.
The coin that is most current among mankind
is tlattery, the only benefit of which is that by
| hearing what we are not we NAV be instructed
what we ought to be. [Swift.
! Thousands VIII at once form positive opin-
ion of subject from its aspect seen at their
! standpoint where one will walk around and
sean it on all sides. f. 2. Roe.
! l always fancy | can hear the wheels clicking
in calcuator'> brain. The power of dealing
with numbers is a kind of "detached-lever'' ar
ranSement, which may be put into mighty
poor watch. Holmes.
hat. al at lAlaa 1,a -;+I
out a flower, 1t would be 4 face without a
smile, a least without welcome. Are not
flowers the stars of the earth: and are not our
stars the flowers of heaven: Mrs. Balfour.
like men who are temperate aud moderate
IN everything. An excessive zeal for that which
Is good, though it may not be offensive to me.
at all events raises my wonder and leaves me
IN difficulty how l should call it. [Montaigne.
one of the best rules in conversation is. never
TO say a thing which any of the company can
reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid: nor
can there anything be well more contrary to
the ends for which people meet together than
to part unsatistied with each other or them
selves. Swift.
BE cheerful, no matter what reverses obstruct
Your pathway or what plaques follow in your
trail to annoy YOU. Ask yourself what is to be
gained by looking or feeling sad when troubles
throng around you, or how your condition is to
be alleyiated by abandoning yourself to de-
spOndency. BE cheerful. TArthur
Helps
The little | have seen of the world teaches
me TO look upon the errors Of others in sorrow,
not in anger. When take the history of one
poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and
represented to myself the struggles and tempt
ations it has passed through, the brief pulsatons
Of JOY the feverish inquietude of hope and fear,
the pressure of want, the desertion of friends,
l would fam leave the erring soul of my fellow
men with Him from whose hand it came
LonSfellOw.
# anything in the world will make man
feel badly, except pinching his fingers in the
crack of door, it is a quarrel. No man fails to
think less of himself after than he did before it
degrades him in the eyes of others. and what is
worse, tends to blunt his sensibilities and in
creases his irritability The truth is. that the
more peaceably and quietly we get on, the better
Tor our nelghbors. In nine cases out of ten, the
better course is, if the man cheats you, to quit
dealing with him; if he ISLANDERS you. take care
to live down his ISLANDERS. Let such persons
alone, for there is nothing better than this wav
of dealing with those who njure us. Hilton.