The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-09-13
Gems of Thought.

Evil news rides fast, while good news bats.
Milton.
Of all the sisters of love one of the most
charming is pity. Alfred de Musset.
Colds gold though dim in the dust; court
polish soon turns it yellow. browning.
Every great poem is in itself limited by ne
cessity-but in its suggestions, unlimited and
Infinite Longfellow.
All mankind acknowledge themselves able
and sufficient 10 DO many things which actually
they never do. South
Concentration is the secret of strength in
politics, in war, in trade; in short, in ali man
agement of human affairs. Emerson.
y man is born dandy as he is born poet.
There are heads that can't wear hats there are
neck> that can't tit cravats; there Jaws that
can't ill out collars Holmes.
We have happily escaped the dogma of the
divine right of kings. Ler us not fall into the
equally pernicous error that multitude is
divine because it is multitude. Garfield.
Books teach by one machinery. conversation
by another; and if these resources were trained
into correspondence to their separate ideals.
they might become reciprocal compliments Of
each other. De Quincy.
When good man is afflicted. tempted or
llUuDItQ Will tN II Thoughts. llltI uP uuUtI-
standeth better the great need he hath of God.
without whom be perceiyeth he can do nothing
that is good. Thomas a hempis.
Women will find their place, and it will
neither be that which they have held nor that to
which some of them will aspire. Natures old
Sale law will not be repealed. and no change of
dynasty will be effected. Huxley.
oh. the Incompatible contrivance of Nature.
who has ordered all things in so even a method
that wherever She has been less bountiful in her
gifts there she makes it up with a larger dose
Of self-lOye. which supplies the former deficits
and makes all even. Erasmus.
The cause of freedom, which is the cause of
Gods kingdom upon earth. is often most in
iured by the enemies who carry within them
the power Of certain human virtues. The wick
eldest man is often not the most insurmOuntable
obstacle to the triumph of good. George
Eliot.
y strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery.
imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord or
tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night
and day: on the other hand. there Is some
comfort that God will be moved by our PRAYERS
bat this imports an memorable mystery.
! lEpicuru<.
Try it for a day. | beseech you. to preserve
yourself in an easy and cheerful frame of mind.
Compare the day in which you have rooted out
the weed Of dissatisfaction with that on which
you have allowed it to grow up. and you will
lind your heart open to every good motive, your
life strengthened, and your breast armed with a
panOpy against every trick Of fate: truly. YOU
Will wonder at YOUR own Improvement. Rich
ter.
Were we able to view Il man in the whole cir
Gle Of his existence. we should have the salts
faction Of seeing it close with happiness or mis-
cry, according to his proper merit, but though
| our view of him is interrupted by death before
the finishing of his adventures if | may so
speak, We may be sure that he conclusion ard
catastrophe is altogether suitable to his be-
havior. Addison.
In a great town, where It is said no man
knows his neighbor, less is to be observed of
nature; more Of man. 1t is we'll not to know
ones neighbours; but il is i'll not to observe
them. Friends and associates are chosen in a
great town upon higher grounds that The mere
accident Of the position Of a house; and, if
there be no perfectly distinct reason for a
personal acquaintance, it is best not to know so
much as the names OF those persons who live
within sight Of ones windows. But they
| should all be studied carefully as problems
through the window-pane. But why they,
rattle, than other people: Because they are
there. Household Words