The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01
THOUGHTFUL SAYINGS.

All great men are happiest in stormy
y The rirest fruit will not fall into your
mouth.
A large part of virtue consists in the
power of good habits. tIIf --i54I.t
Great wealth comes by destiny mod
crate wealth by industry.
A better thing than to get rid of burden
is to have strength given us to bear it.
A little praise is good for shy temper
1t teaches it to rely on the kindness of
others.
The people whom we never contradict
are those whom we either love most or
respect least - n
The most delicate, the most sensible of
all pleasures consists in promoting the
pleasures of others. 81
Many men have just enough faith to
make them miserable, but not enough to
make them hopeful.
How indestructible the good grows and
propagates itself, even among the weedy
entanglementsy of evilyITYlfq IL i@H
Simplicity, Of all things, is the hardest to
be copied, and ease is only to be acquired
with the greatest labor. zoe
The premedtation of death is the pre-
meditation of liberty; he who has learned
to- die has forgot to serve. / II J
Let every one sweep, the snow from his
door, and not busy himself about the frost
on his neighbours tiles. BIS IT, s.5.
They who speak ill of themselves, do so
mostly as the surest way of proving how
modest. and candid they are. a,,o1
d Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts
yet if men encourage melancholy too much,
they become no better than beasts.
BE, determined, if possible, never to in
jure the feelings or tastes of any one, and
cultivate earnestly the most graceful way
of expressing kind actions.
The devil tempts men through their
ambition, their cupidity or their appetite,
until he comes to, the ,profane4 swearer,
whom be catches. without any reward. y /
The action Of man is a representative
type Of his thought and will and work
of charity is representative type of the
charity within, in the soul and mind.
Mature seems to existfor the excellent. The
world is upheld by the veracity of good men;
they make the earth wholesome. Wecall our
children and our lands by their names; their
works and effigies are in our house.
God can make the griefagrace, the burden
blessing, and light up the disappointment
so that it becomes the torch of hope. The
rod itself shall bud and blossom and bring
forth almonds, so that the very thing that
chastens us shall present beauty and fruit.
There are some great troubles that only
time can heal, and perhaps some that never
can be healed at all; but all can be helped
by the great panacea-work. When grief sits
down and folds it's hands, and mournfully
feeds, upon its own, tears, weaving the dim
shadows that little exertion might sweep
away into funeral pail, the strong spirit is
shon of its might, and sorrow becomes our
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1t is rather singular coincidence that
both the. Presidential candidates taught
school IN asyhrms for the blind in their
younger days. Both raised themselves
from, poverty by their own energy and
y sa4a NoN
least that neither one ever drove mule
team for a canal boat. 4.lie41G1igf
An amendment Don't give it away,
please, Mildred" said Amy to the high
school girl, after reeiting an eseapade In
which she had been engaged. NO" re-
piled Mildred, '1'll make no gratuitous pre-