Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-01
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

Music does not change the disposition
OF our soul; it makes us feel what We
think.
The kindness of youth springs from
impulse; that of old age comes from in
diligence.
Solitude is to be alone; isolation is to
find yourself alone in the world when
you are lonely.
More good than evil in humanity
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better rs the world grows old.
Greater mischiefs happen often from
meanness. folly and vanity, than from the
greater sins OF avarice and ambition.
Constancy is moral virtue; fidelity is
q physical virtue. Men call themselves
constant; women call themselves faith.
full.
The death of child occasions Q pas.
sion of grief and frantic tears, such as
your end, brother reader, will never in
spire.
Nothing distinguishes great men from
inferior more than their alwaye knowing,
whether IN life or art, the way things are
goinR.-Ruakin.
A hypocrite may spin 80 fair thread
as to deceive his own eyes. He may; ad.
mire the cobweb, and not know himself
to be the spider.
Calumny Is like counterfeit money; Q
great many persons who would not care
to issue it make no hesitation in circula-
ting it without any scruple.
If We would have powerful minds, We
must think; if We would have faithful
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powerful muscles, we must labor.
It is not required, it may be wrong. to
show all we feel or think; what is re.
quired of US ia not to show what we do
not feel or think, for that is to be false.
Genius is great thing without doubt;
but if you have capacity for hard work
you have SO good substitute for genius
that you can't tell the difference be-
tween the two.
A tender conscience is an inestimabls
blessing; that is conscience not only
quick to discern what is evil, but iE-
stantly to shun it. as the eyelid closes
itself against the mote.
The congregation of Bereth Kadosh,
the leading Hebrew congregation of the
city of Rochester, N. Y, have resolved
to adopt the English ritual instead of
the Hebrew ritual. It is regarded as an
important step.
No woman can be lady who would
wound or mortify another No matter
how beautiful, how refined, how cultlva-
ted she may be, she is in reality coarse,
and the innate vulgarity of her nature
manifests itself thus.
Faetidiousness is only another form of
egotism, and all men who know not
where to look for truth, save in the mar
row we'll of self, will find their own i'm
age at the bottom, and mistake it for
what they are seeking.
The father of our country spoke the
truth when he ssid: II regard him as
worse than an infidel who does not have
faith. and more than wicked who does
not have gratitude enough to acknoWl-
edge his obligations"
The quarter of million or more
Baptists of Georgia will celebrate the
centennial of their organization in that
state in October by camp.meeting of
rousipg proportions, and . 100000
endowment for Mercer college.
There are some beings for whom We
have an affection because they please,
and others who please only because We
have an affection for them. We like the
first best when they are present, and the
others when they are absent.
The chief use OF education is to multi
ply motives for action-for to have many
is to have many impulses. to
have many impulses is to be accessible
to many motives, and to be accessible to
many motives 10 to be in communication
with many influences instead of being
bound in unreasonlng constancy to one.
Who are the men of history to be ad.
mired most? Those whom most things
become; who conld be weighty in debate,
Of much device in council, conslderate in
q sick room. genial at feast, Joyous at Q
festival. capable of discourse with many
minds. large souled. not to be shrivelled
up into any one form, fashion or temper.
sment.
A Congregational church named the
Open Door was organized in northeast
Minneapolis January Goth. It is the ]