Daily Republican., 1886-10-28
PEARLS OF WISDOM.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise
men ~ the same way--and the fools
know il.
But i you are going to be fool just
because other men have been, oh, my
son, what hopeless fool you will be-
Nature has supplied remedies for
great evils-has balanced genius with
adversely, ambition with perils, virtue
with calumny.
There is no real growth of character
except by q conquest over opposing
difficulties-the dong right when It
Is agains our inclinstions and preiu-
dices.
He who waits for an opportunity to
do much at once may breathe out his
life in its idle wishes, and regret in
the last hour his useless intentions and
barren zeal.
1t does US good to admire what is
good and beautiful; but it does US inf
nitely more good TO love it. We grow
like what we admire; but we become
one W 18th what we love.
Such is the effect of refinement and
afiability of manners, when blended
with intelligence and virtue, that pre-
possessions are at once enlisted in IA
vor OF those who are so prominently
endowed.
There is never ''Might-have- been"
that touches with sting, but reveals
also 10 US an inner glimpse of the
wide and beautiful MAY be-" 1t is
all there; somebody else has it now
while we wait
We crave good gifts-wealth, per-
haps, or fame, or love. But do we
think what they meanp RESPONSE
bility; and responsibility means work
and self-debial. Happiness is the I'M
known quantity which is continually
working itself out by holding to these.
Nature is a careful economist who
permits only those faculties or muscles
to develop which are used; and, as
every muscle and faculty has use, it
follows that that condition is nearest
perfect where all are employed, and,
per contra, that inactivity leads to de-
cay.
Many persons do themselves a
wrong by permitting their feelings to
be st FRED, and then letting them sub
side again without an effort in the d.
recti0n of that which excited them,
Every experience of that sort helps to
blunt the moral sense and promote its
degradation.
An idle word may be seemingly
harmless in its utterance; but let it be
fam ed by passion, let it be fed by the
fuel of misconceptions, of evil inten-
ton, of prejudice, and it will soon
grow into sweeping fire that will
melt the chains of human friendship,
that will burn to ashes many cherished
hopes, and blacken more fair names
than one.
Grief anticipates age. Dwelling on
the Inevitable past, forming vain n.y.
potheses, as to what might have been
If this or that had or had not been, &C
quiring craze tor recounting what
had occurred-these acts do more harm
to future health and effort than many
things connected with real calamity.
Occupation and new pursuits are the
best preventives of mental shock and
bereavement.
Many a child goes astray, not be-
cause there is grievance at home, but
simply because home lacks sunshine.
A child needs smiles as much as the
flowers, need sunbeams. Children
look little beyond the present moment.
If q thing pleases, they are apt to seek
it; If it displeases, they are apt to
avoid it. If home is a place where
faces are sour and words harsh, and
fault finding is ever in the ascendant,
they will spend as many hours as pos.
sible elsewhere.