The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-19
THE OHIP BASKET,

THE CHIP BASKET.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch as the sunbeam.
Every day brings with it some oppor-
tunity to do good.
We all praise contentment, but how
few of us practice it,
The world is more apt to reward ap-
pearances than deserts. @
Wrongdoers are never secure Of their
greatness and gain.
Individual improvement is the best
remedy for social evils.
A clear conscience is sometimes sold
for money; but it is never bought
with it.
Opinions grounded upon prejudice
are always maintained with the great
est violence.
A great purpose nerves the life it
lives in, SO that no personal terrors can
assail, nor any minor woes afflict it.
There is no virtue in the human
heart that so adorns the life and char
acter of an individual as that of for
giveness.
Coleride compared experience to the
stern lights Of vessel which illumin-
ate only the track over which it has
passed.
Manners are the ornament of action;
and there is a way of speaking kind
word, or a kind thing, which greatly en-
nance their value.
We must strive to make ourselves
very worthy Of some employment or
other; the rest is no business of ours;
it is the business of other people.
It is not enough in this world to
ssmean well.n We ought to do well.
Thong htfulness, therefore, becomes a
duty, and gratitude one of the graces.
In every life there comes time when
the sprigs ofjoy dry up, when the days
drag YEARLY by and the nights are one
long season of sleepless gloom.
Everybody is making mistakes. Ev-
erybody is finding outafterWard that he
has made mistake. But there can be
no greater mistake than the stopping to
worry over mistake already made
He who never changed any of his
opinions never corrected any OF his mis-
takes; and he who was never wise
enough to find out any mistakes in HIM
self, will not be charitable enough to
excuse what he reckons mistakes in
others.
The more our gifts and graces are ex-
ercised, the more they are strengthened
and increased.
It is true of many persons that their
memory is nothing but row of hooks
to hang up grudges on. .g.s
matters Of consfs nc. nee first thoughts
are best; in matters of prudence, last
thoughts are best.
Throw life into method, that every
hour may bring its employment, and
every e. employ! l9a. its hou, u
What is called selfshness frequently
consists in not doing what the selfish
ness Of another wishes you to do.
Whoever anticipates troubles will
find he has thrown away a great deal Of
terror and anguish to no purpose.
The tender, warning voices of our
guardian angels are ever striving to
hush the siren tones of the tempting
world.
Tt is the principle, and not the man
ners, that make the man. The princi-
pie is the handspring; the manners are
only the figures on the dial,
If there were no enemy, there could
be no conflict were there no trouble,
there could be no faith; were there no
ltdL, tlltlC CUulu NC IiO uOpS.
It is an easy thing to accept as true
or best what we wish to be so, without
sitting the evidence; but to judge
wisely takes both labor and time.
The command of ones self is the
greatest empire a man can aspire to,
and consequently to be subject to our
own passions. the most grievous slay-
cry.
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as
the bitter thought Of sorrow coming.
Airy ghosts that work noharm do ter
rify us more than men in steel with
bloody purposes.
Maggie and Mamie.