The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
THOUGHTFUL SAYINGS.

Any truth, faithfully faced, is str, myth
in itself.
Truth is the highest thing that man can
keep.
Reason should not regulate but supple
ment virtue.
straightforward integrity is best to battle
duplicity.
Every man knows best where his own
shoe pincllcs.
To keep ones own opinion is a cheap
pleasure, and a sweet one.
Justice is the bread of nations; they are
always furnishing for it.
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest
passion of the human heart.
Politeness of the mind consists III think
ing delicate and chaste thoughts.
Eternity is long enough to make up for
the ills of our brief troubled life here.
People seldom improve when they have
no other model but themselves to copy
after.
A certain amount of distrust is whole
some, but not so much of Others as of our
selves.
Where cause is good, an appeal
should be directed to the heart rather
than the head.
Everybody sees the cloud on the hor-
lion. but who thinks of the clear blue sky
above it?
One of the greatest blessings you can
enjoy is a tender, honest and enlightened
conscience.
1t is not a lucky word, this same i'm
possible; no good comes of those that have
it so often in their mouths.
IT'S an i'll thing to be ashamed of ones
poverty, but much worse not to make use
of lawful endeavors to avoid it.
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor
to the rich, an aid to the young, and
support and comfort to the aged.
The moment we feel angry in contro-
yersy we have already ceased striving for
truth and begun striving for ourselves.
Life does not count by years. Some
suffer a lifetime in a day, and SO become
old between the rising and setting of the
sun.
You may depend upon it that he is
good man whose intimate friends are all
good and whose enemies are decidedly
bad.
Covetons ambition, thinking all too
little of which presently it hath, supposeth
itself to stand in need of all which it hath
not.
With every member of the household
anxious to promote the welfare OF each
other by kind words and deeds how cheer
full the family circle can be made
Even in the tiercest uproar of our stormy
passions, conscience, though in her softest
whispers, gives to the supremacy OF recti-
tude the voice of undying testimony.
Stories heard at the mothers knee are
never wholly forgotten. They form foun-
tain that never quite dries up in our jour
neyings though the scorching years.
Under the direction of a large-souled man
everything prospers. The spirit of his
liberality gives life and zest and soul-stirr-
ing inspiration which overcomes every
obstacle. and success is the natural result.
''The tongue can no man tame You
NAV rcfute slanderer; you may trace home
Islander to its source; you may expose
the author of it; you may, by that exposure
give a lesson so severe as to make repeti-
ton of the offence appear impossible; but
the fatal habit is incorrigible; tomorrow
the tongue is at work again.
If private virtue, if self-respect, if the
fear of God. if the sense of duty, decays in
family life, i'm the personal will care not
how much education is going on, how excel
lent the common schools may be, nor how
decorous and proper the customs of society
are-there is a worm at the root, canker
in the bud. which takes precedence OF all
other influences, and predestines society to
downfall and ruin.
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