Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-01-04
Gems Of Chought.


The original work in any line that is
truly valuable to the world il that
which il built upon all that has preceded
it. TO be able TO appropriate all
that we can find, and to b. stimulated
by 1t to fresh ana grauder efforts is the
pain to excellence III every department.
Originality IL nothing tor its own sake
but much as contribution TO higher
end. To leave the beaten track mere
ly to tread another is folly and folly
Of the worst description but to leave
1t for the sake Of etGer one is
wisdom.
To be sympathetic is to hold the key
Of true charity. No one who Is this car
indulge in til ill-natured surmises, the
crosse ornred comments, the slanderous
insinuations so sadly rife in society. No
one who Is sympathetic repeats damag-
ing stories or believes In shameful in
Expectations. Rather to one of this kind
human nature is q thing to love, and jts
SHORTCOMINGS are to be pi tied rather than
condemned-pitied as one pities failure
of all kinds.
There is no real conflict between
straightforwardness Of character and
the use Of Indirect methods. 1t is
merely a question of the nearest and
surest way to agiven end. He who would
AVOID rushing upon obstacles and so
hlDdering the eud in view may be Just
as sincere and earnest and great deal
wiser and more successful then he who
soes headloug, without perceiving the
difficulties that lie across his path.
Carry religious principles into COM
lis transformers. The world passeth
away. The things seen ar temporal.
Soon business, v 18th all It's cares and
anXieties, the whole unprotita bic stir
and fever OF the world" will be to US
a thing of the past. But religion does
something better than sigh and moan
Ov, the perlsha blenessof earthly things.
1t finds ir them the seed of immortal.
ity.
The best mind is that which is both
original and receptive 1t welcomes
knowledge from every source, DO tn
from its own observation and thought
from those Of others. It's aim is to
discover truth, and to that End it uses
every material within its reach, dis
peDsins with none. 1t values neither
the new because II il new nor the old
because it is Old, but both acc ording to
their real merits.
Think ng much about self, especially
about the impressions we have made or
are going to make upon others, tends
always to deprive us of self possession.
Va rt
simplicity and naturalness, and fall
into the very blunders that we dread.
And frequent failures weaken our
courage and make us shrink more al d
more from what We ought boldly %
approach.
The habits Of children prove that &C.
cupation is aLnecessity with most Of
them. They love to De busy, even
about nothing, and still more to be use
fully employed. Children should be
enco uraged, or, if indo emily isinclined
to it, should be disciplined into perform
ing for themselves every little Office
cal able of performing.
We cannot afford to vast \, o. ignore,
or deepise anything, for, however use
less it may appear TO our short-sighted
vision, we know not what treasures of
future growth and advancement may be
within it, or how readily it
may respond to wise culture, like tho
tiny germ that is nourisLed ~ the
warm soil and strengthened by the re.
freshing rain.
When we see leaves drop from their
trees in the beginning of autumn, such,
we think, is the friendship Of the world.
While the sap of maintenance lasts,
friends swarm in abundance but in
the winter of need, they leave US naked.
He is happy man that hath q true
friend at his need but he is more truly
happy that hath no need of his friends.
We must have a weak spot or two In
q character, says o. w. Holmes, before
we can love it much. People who do
not laugh or cry, or take more Of any
thing than is good for them, or use
anything but dictionary words, are adj
subjects for biographers. But
we do not care most for those f1at-pa:-
tern flowers that press best in the herb
arium.
Intelligence and energy and con-
scient iousness, all united, can never
evolve true justice if sympathy be alb
sent from the heart. This ia no merely
abstract and impractical idea. 1t lies
1t the root Of moral education and
for it declares that just
conduct always depends upon right feel.
ngs, and cannot be developed without
,heIn.
Revenge commonly hurts both the
,tferer and sufferer as we see In the
'oolish bee, which, in her anger, evenom.
9TH the flesh, and loseth her sting,
md 80 lives drone ever after. ! &C.
count it the only valor to remit
wrong, and will applaud it to myself
IS right noble and Christian that
night hurt and will not.
That heart must be dead to all things
ovely which conld daily move among
,rOup of children, aiding them to grasp
he fruit upon the tree Of knowledge,
Without feeling his soul kindle and
row warm within him at their earnest
ndeavors in the sweetness and limo
ence Of childhood.
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