The Republican journal., 1883-05-17
Gems of Thought.

Christianity is part of the law OF England
! .l-0rd-C Chancellor Eldon.
The world cannot explain its own difficulties
| without the assistance of another. Cotton.
The creed of the true saint is to make the best
OF ME ana make the most Of it. [Chapin.
Next to the rhnoceros. there is nothing in
| the world armed like a woman. And She knows
it. -Jerrold.
Conservation is not religiouSly selfish thing
II It sinks into that. it ceases to be conservation
Frances Ridley Havergal.
And the love of our own language. what is
1t. IN fact but the love of our country express
ing Itself in one particular direction. TR. c.
Trench.
The woman who makes flannel shirts for the
llottentots i very apt to have Iottentots in her
own house whose shirts need mending. ~. G.
Holland.
would rather dwell in the dim fog of sllper-
>tltlon than IN air raretcd to nothing by the air
pump Of unbelief: in which the painting breast
expires, vanly and convulsyclv gasping for
breath. TRichter.
The restraining grace of common sense is the
mark of all the valid minds. The common
sense which does not NEEDLE with the absolute,
but take things at their Word-things as they
appear. Emerson.
10 say the least, town life makes one more
tolerant and liberal in ones Judgment of others
one Is not eternally wrapped up in self-contem-
platOn, which, after ali. is only "A more holy
kind Of vanity. [Longfeow.
If we can sleep without dreaming. it is well
lhat painful dreams are avoided. II while we
sleep we can have pleasing dreams, it is, as the
ffcnch say. t"jf Qognf. much added to the
pleasure of life. [B. Franklin.
If in company you offer something for a lest
and nobody seconds you on your own laughter
| YOU may condemn their taste, and appeal to
better judgments; but. in the meantime, YOU
make very indifferent figure. Swift
| Compare the harmessness. the tenderness.
the modesty, and the ingenious pliableness
| which Is i'll youth. with the mischieyousness
the slYneSs. the craft. the impudence the false
hood and the confirmed obstinacy found in an
| aged. long-practised sinner
50 then, the year is repeating its old story
| again. We are come once more thank God, to
| IT'S most charming chapter. The violets and the
| nayioWers are its inscriptions Or vignettes 1t
! always makes pleasant impression on lis when
| we open again at these pages OF the book of life
| Goethe.
| If thou hast no mercy for others yet be not
! cruel unto myself. To rumnate upon evils to
! make critical notes upon INJURIES and to be
acute i'll their apprehensons is to add unto our
| own fortunes, to feather the arrows of our enc
mics, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of
our foes and to resolve to sleep no more: for
| injuries long dreamt on take away all rest and
| esleeps but like Regulus, who busieth his head
| about them. Sir Thomas Brown.
Were one to point out a method of education.
| che could not, methinks, frame one more pleas
ing or improving than this Where the children
| get habit of communicating their thoughts and
| lnclinations to their best friend with 20 much
| freedom that he can form schemes for their flu
| ture life and conduct from an observation of
| the temper, and by that means be early enough
IN choosing their way of life to make them for
ward in some art or science at an age when
others have not determined what profession to
follow. Steele.
Let the blessings we receive daily from God
make us not to value or not praise him, because
they be common. | have been told that if A
man that was born blind could obtain to have
his sight for but only one hour during his whole
life, and should at the first opening of his ewes,
| fix his sight upon the sun when it was in full
glory either at the rising or setting of it, he would
be so transported and amazed that he would
not willingly turn his eyes to behold all the other
various beauties this world could present to him.
And this and many other blessings we enjoy
daily. And, for most of them. most men forget
to pay their praise but let not us. Izaak
| Walton.