Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-27
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

little and to endure much.
\ Good and bad men are each less 30
than they seem.-Coleridge.
/ Night and day let us keep our souls
awake and our hearts lifted up to God.
The Lords prayer contains the sum
totaE6f religion and Observation-Disclosures.
Defect in manners is usually defect
lin fine perceptions. Elegance comes Of
no breeding. but of birth.
| There are some who write, talk and
think 80 much about virtue that they
have no time to practice it.
Superstition is to religion what astrol-
ogy 10 to astronomy; q very stupid
daughter OF very wise mother.
Money in your purse will credit you;
wisdom in your head will adorn you;
you.
1t is absurd to indulge in all kinds of
eAcesses and vice, and imagine yourself
cunning enough to conceal it from the
world.
Truth-the open, bold, honest truth
is always the wisest, always the safest,
for every one in any and all circum-
stances.
Teach self.denial and make its prac.
tice pleaeurable, and you create for the
world q destiny more sublime than ever
from the brain Of the widest dreamer.
Nothing 60 increases reverence for
others as q great sorrow to ones self. It
teaches one the depth Of human nature.
In happiness we arc shallow and deem
others 80.
Greek is, perhaps, the most perfect
instrument of thought ever invented by
man, and its literature has never been
equalled in purity of style and boldness
of expression.
Honest or courageous people have
very little to say about either their
courage or their honesty. The sun has
no need to boast Of his brightness, nor
the moon of her effulgence.
Inexhaustible good nature is the most
precious gift of heaven, spreading itself
like oil over the troubled sea of thought,
and keeping the mind smooth and equa.
BILE in the roughest weather.
The chief secret of comfort lies in not
suffering trif1es to vex us, and in pru.
dently cultivating our undergrowth oi
small pleasures, since very few great
ones. alas! are let on long leases.
Mirth is like the flash of lightning that
breaks through the gloom of the clouds
and glitters for moment; cheerfulness
keeps up daylight in the soul, filing it
with steady and perpetual serenity.
The great moments of life are but
moments like the others. Your doom
is spoken in word or two. A single
look from the eyes, mere pressure OF
the hand, may decide it; or Of the lips,
though they cannot speak.
When it once enters mans head to
have an ambition to be thoroughly
crafty, all other evils are necessary con
sequences. To deceive is the immediate
endeavor of him who is proud of the
capacity of doing so.
When any body's behaviour disturbs
US. dismiss the image of the injury, and
bethink yourself whether you have not
been guilty of the same fault. Such re.
flections are the most certain way of be-
coming truly wise and pious.
No good or lovely thing exists in the
world without Its correspondent dark
ness. The universe presents itself con.
tinually to mankind under the stern
aspect of warning or of choice, the good
and the evil set on the right hand and
the left.
With children we must mix gentleness
with firmness; they must not always
have their own way, but they must not
always be thwarted. If we never have
headaches through rebuking them, we
shall have plenty of headaches when
they grow up. Be obeyed at all costs.
If You yield up your authority once, you
will hardly ever get it again.
You observe man becoming day by
day holier, or advancing in station, or
increasing in professional reputation.
and you set him down az q successful
man in life. But if his home is an ir-
regular one, where no link of affection
extends throughout the family, whose
former domestics (and he has had more
of them than he can we'll remember) look
back upon their sojourn with him as one
unblessed by kind words or deeds, con.
tend thst that man has not been sue
cessful.
knowledge, truth, love, beauty, good.
ness, faith, alone can give vitality TO the
mechanism of existence; the laugh OF
mirth that vibrates through the heart,
the tears that freshen the dry waste with.
10, the music that brings childhood
back, the prayer that calls the future
near, the doubt which makes us medi-
tate, the death which startles us with
mystery, the hardship which forces us
to struggle. the anxiety that ends iu
trust, are true nourishment of our natur-
81 being.