Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-12-04
PEARLS OF WISDOM.

koou sompcr anu An OOllRlng 0tBpO.
sition, when combined with honesty
| and industry, are invaluable qualities
every one who has hts way 10 make
In the world.
We dop 3 know each others burde
the weight or the beauty of them; and
we don't often know what IL inside our
own. We shall find out when we get
TO the top.
The Law Of harvest 10 to reap more
than you SOW. Sow IN act, and Won
reap habit; SOW . habit and you reap
character SOW Q character, and you
reap destiny.
No eloQu6pce is 30 efficient as the
mildnefs OF n kind heart. The drops
that fall gently upon the corn ripen and
all the ear; but violent storms beat
down tho growing crop and detolAte
| .he feld.
The man who ntellieently thin ks and
scls for htmsflf will respect the same
characteristics In others, and will ex.
tend the tanie hosT itality and sympathy
OF thought and word that he desires fol-
himself.
We should always be slow In choosing
friend, and still slower to chan ge him,
We sh0nld always be courteous to all,
ard intimate with few; never slight a
man for poverty, nor esteem any one
l for his wealth.
1t is eaey to tell when others are fat
| tered, but not when We ourselves are;
/, and every man and woman will lend
arm belief 10 the soft nothir rs of the
very man they believe to be an arrant
fiatterer when others are In the case.
There is a sublimity In patience. To
DO thing and, when needed, TO keep
ioing 1t, to walt for the desired end
lot ug1ishly, bat diligently IL neces
AIRY, mot despondinRly. but even with q
crave hope-this is n grand character.
Our chsracters, our tone Of thought
our moral Standard, our opinions,
our tabtes AND feelings, are constantly
lpfiuer cling those with whom we are
thrown In way we cannot see; hence
The need for every conscientious person
to study self-inprovement
Keenness In man Is not always to
be taken as sign Of capacity, for IL is
generally observed most In those who
are selfish and oveIreachipg; and bis
ke6nnens re nerally ends In that kind Of
penetration into other peoples interests
which ter d 10 benefit his own.
Tho good man honestly discharges his
duty and shuns os:entation; the vain
nAn considers every good deed lost that
y NOT publicly displayed. The one Ia
intent upon realities, the other on mere
semblsnoes; the one aims TO be virtu-
1us, the other TO appear go.
What men need Ia for the moral ma
ture to keep pace with the intellectual,
for the ties Of human brotherhood to
grow strong rs the perceptions grow
keen; then shall they see and feel the
good more wildly than they DO the evil
and hasten to diffuse it around them.
Strive not with your superiors In ar.
gumGnt, bat always submit J -FOUR judg-
ment TO theirs with modesty, b not
hasty to believe flying reports 10 the
encouragement of any. Take all admo-
nitiops thankfully, In what time or
place toeyer given; bus afterward, rot
being culpabie take n time or place
convenient 70 let your admo nisher
know 1t.
There 10 no happiness In the world
equal to that Of blessing Cihers. Not
only by giving money TO the needy,
help to the sick, food TO the hungry, Lis
this blessing comprised; we gain It as
No give 10, by sympathy, by affection,
by seeing shat which Ii best in our
friends, and shutting our eyes to that
whici, Is worst, by taking Joy In their
sooi things even when our own portion
ls scant and poor.
No one has too m uoh poetry. too much
hope, or faith, or aspiration. Nest pso-
pie have far too little. What they have,
however, 10 usually the best part OF
them. Their ideals are higher than
their actuais. In this lies one secret of
All moral progress. Men conceive of q
better life than they are living, Of obler
,ondues, Of higher thopsht, Of purer
and upward, and lead them to
tread paths of virtue that were once i'm.
possible.