Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-13
CLEVELANpiANA,
Sentences and Aphorisms Selected fror
Miss Cleyeland's New Hook

Sentences and Aphorisms Selected from
Miss Cleveland's New Book.
We are liable to have notions until
We get knowledge.
Let US study career as means only to
the end-character.
No secret of hydraulics could cause
dew drop to hang upon rose-leaf in
cube.
1never knew a good man or a good
woman who was not practically an OPP
timist.
An acorn in the mind is worth more
than an oak forest at the end of the
tongue.
The noble soul would choose rather
not to be than not to be somebody in
particular.
Manners are made in the market,
where they are sold and their buying
and selling are mostly unconscious.
No gift can pass between human
creatures so divine as the gift of recog
milton, for it touches upon the crea-
tive.
10 be dramatic, and at the same
time accurate, is rare combination.
Ii the one is gift the other is grace.
One who has faith in the concrete is
sure to have it in the abstract; and the
effect IS tnat of optimism in the world.
We can do no Drawer or better thing
than to bring our best thoughts to the
everyday market. They Will Weld us
usurious interest
Our lives are not laid out in vast,
vague prairie, but in definite domestic
doOr-y ards, within which we are to eX-
ercise and develop our faculties.
Herein is the significance of the saw
ing that history repeats itself: 1t does
repeat itself, because it repeats its fac
torS-the men and women who COM
pose 1t.
The dullest mortal spirit must at
times grope restlessIy and eXpectantly
in the outer darkness for something
beyond, and this something must exist,
will exist, in true poem.
The mother makes the man, per-
haps; but the wife manufactures him.
Sonnet ines the wife in her manufacture
confirms the making of the mother,
sometimes counteracts it.
The humanity of each of us is like
some Eolian harp constructed by the
Master Musician and laid down tender
ly by Him upon the seashore where
winds from every quarter play contin
uously.
Each of us can so believe in human
ity in general as to contribute to that
pressure which constantly levers up
the race; can surround ourselves with
an atmosphere optimistic rather than
the contrary.
Whether men admit it or not. faith
in ourselves and faith in our brother
and sister humanity follow from our
faith in God, and If that faith be al
lowed its full growth will each win its
rightful rank.
Reciprocity, constant and equal,
among all HIS creatures is the plan of
the only maker of plans. whose plans
never fail in the least iot or title. He
has reserved to himself the power to
give without receiving.
Human history is but one ceaseless
flow of cause into effect and of effect
into cause. There is nothing but
which is consequent. You and | are
but the consequents of a vast tangle of
antecedents in all time before.
True. self-knowledge is never to
be come at by burrowing in the narrow
limit of our own individual Thoughts.
feelings and experience. We must. in
order to truly see ourselves. stand be-
fore the great mirrow. humanity. and.
in its all-retlecting focus, behold our
own proper individuality.
What's in a name? A rose by any
other name might smell as sweet; but
a lily, if rechrstened rose, would never
diffuse the roses odor. nor gain, in
addition to its own spotless PROJECTIONS,
the deep-hearted sorcery of that en-
chanting. crumpled wonder. which we
thrill in touching, as if it, too. had
nerves, and blood, and human heart
"a rose.
In this scientific age-this age of
iconoclasm-it is greatly good for us
to confront things rich. rare, out-of-
the-common things above our power
to comprehend, beyond our power to
destroy. 1t is well for us who are so
blind to the rose-color in our lives to
be forced to acknowledge our existence
in the imperishable canvas of history;
well for us, so intensely practical as we
are, to be compelled there, at least, to
confront the romantic and the heroic.