The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-05-31
Gems of Thought.

Honor Thy father and thy mother. Moses.
Old ideas are prejudices new ideas, caprices.
[Doudan.
They never pardon who commit the wrong.
Dryden.
They truly mourn that mourn without wit
ness. Byron.
Treat old age with great reverence and ten
dcrneSs. lIOrOastcr.
They are never alone who are accompanied
with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney.
H. who is not earnestly sincere lives in bat
half his being, self-mutiated. self-parayZed.-
[Coleridgc.
If We do well, to your own behoof will We do
1t: and if We do evil. against yourselves will We
do it, Koran.
God is glad when any one honors father and
mother, grandfather and grandmother, worn
Town by age. Plato.
Fully to understand grand and beautiful
| thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to
conceive it. [Jouber.
The world belongs to those who come the
| last; they will find strength and hope as we
have done. [Longfellow.
The only sound and healthy description of as
>istlnS, Is that which teaches independence and
NVll-tAtlllol' INlduslole
Happy is he to whom Heaven hath sent
morsel of bread. for which he is obliged to none
but Heaven itself. [Ceryantes.
Next to the originator OF good sentence is
| the first quoter of it. Many will read the book
| before one thinks Of quoting passage. Emer-
! son.
| The minds of some of our statesmen, like the
| pupil of the human eye, contract themselves
he hp hp lrl,f oh
| Moore.
| Gaiety is to good humOr as perfumes to yege-
| table fragrance; the one overpowers weak spir-
| its; the other recreateS and reyyeS them
| johnson.
| The browning fortune of a man is that which
| nnds HIM III employment - whether it be to
make baskets, or canals, or statues. or songs
| Emerson.
Healthy groWths may become poisonous by
! nature by falling on the wrong mental soil and
what seemed nghtshade in one mind may I'M
Told as morning glory in another. Holmes.
Speak to thy parents with respectful speech.
Defer humbly TO them out of Difference and saw
Lord, have compassion upon them, even as
they had compassion on me when was voungr
fMohammed.
Alas we know that ideals can never be COM
pletely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever
lie great way otf-and we will thankfully con-
tent ourselves with any not intOlerable approx
lmation thereto. Carlyle.
Life is made up, not OF great sacrifices or du-
ties, but of little things. in which smiles. and
klndnesses, and small obligations, given habit
ually. are what win and preserve the heart
and secure comfort. Sir Ii. Davy.
Many Christians do greatly wrong themselves
with dull and heavy kind of sulIenness; who,
not suffering themselves to delight in any world
ly thing, are thereupon ofttmes so heartless
that they delight in nothing. bishop Hall.
We view The world with our own eyes, each
OF rs; and we make from within us the world
we see. weary heart gets no gadness out of
sunshine; a selfish man is skeptical about friend
ship, as man with no ear doesn't care for
music. TThackeray.
Shall we regard with Indifference the great
inheritance which cost our sires their blood.
because we find in their gift an admixture of
imperfection and evil: Surely there is good
enough IN the contemplation of which every
patriotic heart may say, "God bless my own.
my native land Garfield.
All the other powers of literature are GOV and
naughty, they must be long courted, and at last
are not always gained: but criticism is a god
deSs easy OF access and forward of advance she
will meet the slow and encourage the timorous
The want of meaning she supplies with words.
and the want of spirit she recompenscs with
malignity. Johnson.