The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-26
Thoughtful Thoughts.

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Good breeding is a letter on credit
all over the world.
He who depends on another dimes
i'll and sups worse.
Spare when you are young and
spend when you are old.
II Incidence is the rust of the mind
"a the inlet of every vice.
The path of duty in this world is
the road to salvation in the next.
Women are afflicted by trifl9s, but
they are also cOnsoed by trifles.
The language Of women should be
luminous, but not vOiumOus.
To an honest mind, the hest per-
quiSitieS of II place are the advantages
it gives man ofdoing good.
He who comes up to his own idea
ofgreatneSs, must always have very
low standard Of it in his time.
Most men consider themselves
above par, women below, and act as
if the latter were in the world from
necessity, not choice.
They that marry ancient people
merely in expectation to bury them,
hang themselves in hope that one
will come and cut the halter.
More hearts pine away in secret
anguish for the want of Kindness
from those who should he their COM
forters thar for any other calamity in
life.
Ifsome people understood human
nature better, and realized their own
weakness more, they would not he
so broad in their censure of others.
More women die from OverwOrk
than lazineSs and if some of them
would bride their tongues and save
more leather, they would he happier.
To avenge ones self is to confess
that one has been wounded, but it is
notthe part Of a noble mind to be
wounded by an injury. because it
does not fee it.
How quietly flows the river toward
the sea, yet it always reaches its deS-
tinatiOn. This is a point to remPm-
her when yOu are trying to rush
things"
Every day little knowledge. One
fact in day. How small is fact L?
Only one! Then years pass Ivy.
Three thousand six hundred aud
fifty facts are not small thing.
The world deals good naturally
with goou natured people, and we
never knew sulky miSanthrOpist
who quarreled with it, hut it was
he, and not it, that was in the
wrong.
Little eyes must he good temper
ed, or they are ruined. They have
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beautify them enough. Tney are
made for laughing. and should do
their duty.
If the reaper, death, should come
with his sickle to cut down all the
bad men and women in the world at
one great swing Ofthe long arm, there
would be but few men left TO tell the
story.
There are many women who have
never intrigued, and many men who
have meyer gained; but those who
have done either but once are very
extraordinary animals, and are more
worthy of glass case when they die
than half the exotics in the British
museum.
We must have weak spot or two
in character before we can love it
much. People that do not laugh or
cry, or take more Of anything than
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dictionary words are admirable sub
jects for biographies. But we don't
always care most for those fiat pat
tern flowers that press best in the
herharium.
We live for the good of others, il
our living be in any sense a true liv-
ing. II is not in great deeds of kind.
ness only that the blessing is found.
I'm little deeds of Kindness" repeat.
ed every day, we find true happiness.
AT home, al school, in the street, in
the nriClhUr'S house, in the !play-
ground, we shall find opportunity
every day for usefulness.
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