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

Truth Is as Impossible TO ne SOlled 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 il.
The world is more apt to reward APP
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 chat no personal terrors can
assail, nor any minor woes atfiict 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 a vessel which illumin-
ate only the track over which it has
passed.
Manners are the ornament Of action;
and there is way of speaking a kind
word, Or 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
mean we'll" We ought to do well.
Thoughtfulness therefore, becomes a
duty, and gratitude one OF the graces.
In every life there comes a 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 out afterward that he
| has made a mistake. But there can be
no greater mistake than the stopping to
worry over a 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.
1t IS true Of many persons that their
memory is nothing but a row of hooks
to hang up grudges on.
Inmatters of conscience first thoughts
are best; in matters of prudence, last
thoughts are best.
Throw life into a method, that every
| hour may bring its employment, and
every employment its hour.
What is called selfish, ass frequently
J consists III not uOiuS what the selfish
ness of another wishes you to do.
Whoever anticipates troubles will
find he has thrown away great deal OF
terror and anguish to no purpose.
, The tender, warning voices of oul
guardian angels are ever striving tG
hush the siren tones OF the tempting
world.
It 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.
IL there were no enemy, there could
be no conflict were there no trouble
there could be no faith; were there nc
fear, there could be no hope.
1t 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 man can aspire TO,
and consequently to be subject to ou1
own passions, the most grievous slav-
cry.
Sorrow itself is not SO hard to bear as
the bitter thought of sorrow coming.
AIRY ghosts that work no harm do ter
rify us more than men IN steel with
bloody purposes.