The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-11-21
Words Of Wisdom.

pie remember.
Simplicity of character is the
natural result of profound thoughts.
The plant of happiness cannot
thrive without the air of cheerful
ness.
The innocence of the intention
abates nothing of the mischief of
the example.
Make friends with your creditors,
if you can, but never make q cred
itor of your friend.
The harvest gathered in the fields
of the past is to be brought home
for the use of the present.
Many people mistake stubborness
for bravery, meanness for economy,
and vileness for wit.
Promises made in the time of
affliction require a better memory
than people commonly possess.
The misery of illness is nearly
manifest in high life as in the rags
and filth of extreme poverty.
Deprive the people of the means
of proper subsistence, and you en-
slave and destroy the nation.
Cheerfulness is an excellent wear
ing quality. 1t has been called the
bright weather of the heart.
We should be as cheerful of orr
words as of our actions, and as far
from speaking i'll as from doing ill.
For gold currency the people
are being encouraged to sacrifice
their goods, their liberties, their
children and themselves.
Gold and silver would be better
as mere medals of commerce, than
as huctuating legal tenders in the
hands of spectators.
Give no quarter to those vices
which are of thine inward family,
and having root in temper plead a
right and propriety in thee.
To avenge ones self is to confess
that one has been wounded but it
is not the part of a noble mind to
be wounded by an injury.
Who is wise? He that learns
from every one. Who is powerful {?
He that governs his passions. Who
is rich? He that is content.
Those that would be safe have
need to be suspicious of the tempter.
The garrison that sounds a parley is
not far from being surrendered.
He who expresses in his conduct
justice and charity, accomplishes
the most beautiful works; the good
man is in his way, the greatest of all
artists.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant
compared with our own private
opinion: what a man thinks of him
self, that it is which determines, or
rather indicates, his fate.
1t does us good to admire what is
good and beautiful; but it does us
infinitely more good to love it. We
grow like what we admire, but we
become one with what we love.
The foundation of good labor in
any sphere is good man, and all
that is done to give breadth, depth
and fullness to him will react in
ultimate improvement upon his
work.
knowledge must be made vital in
the heart before it can blossom into
conduct, and the continual uassing
of right feeling into right action
alone can form a worthy character.
Men who complain most loudly
about the inequalities of the human
lot are generally a little blind to
those great stores of wealth and
blessings that no class can mon
opolize, and no wealth can buy.
The man who will not execute
his resolutions when they are fresh
upon him can have no hope from
them afterwards; they will be dis
sipated, lost, and perish in the
hurry of the world, or in the slough
of Incidence,
Leaves are light and useless, and
idle, and wavering, and changeable,
and even dance; yet God has made
them part of the oak; in so doing
he has given us a lesson not to deny
the stoutheartedness within because
we see the lightsomeness without.
Parson Gridly, of Waco, is very
much opposed to dancing. He said
recently to young lady of the con-
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