The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-11-19
WORDS OF WISDOM.


themselves.
The greatest wealth is contenIment
with a little.
A hired horse and ones OWE spurs
make short miles.
R-prove thy friend privately, com
meud him publicly.
Contact with the world either breaks
or hardeLs the heart.
They are never alone that are accom-
panied by noble thoughts.
Mems evil deeds live in brass ;heir
virtues We write in water
To be a great man it IS necessary to
turn to account all opportunities.
Disparage and depreciate no one an
insect has feeling, an atom shadow.
The gift of every truly great mind is |
to get good out of all things and all |
persons.
What we learn in our youth grows Hp |
with us, and in time becomes part Of the |
mind itself.
Method is the soul of business, and !
there is no method without order and !
punctuality.
The gilded calf, having wealth without |
soul, finds more worshipers to-day than
in the days of Moses.
A vine bears three grapes, the first Of
pleasure. the second of drunkenness. the |
third of repentance.
What we wish to do We think we can
do, but when we do not wish to DO
thing it becomes impossible.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and
it is because we have within us the be-
ginning and possibility Of it.
Don't Judge a man by his failures in
life, for many a man fails because he is
too honest to succeed.
Whether be is great or small, set that
man down for a fool who boasts that he
does not read the local papers.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversi-
ty is a greater. Possession pampers the
mind privation trains and strengthens
il.
He whose only claim to the title ''gen-
tlemlu" is in his clothes, must necessa-
rily be careful in regard to the clothes
he wears.
i is better to rise from your knees
and drive your hens out of your neigh
boris garden, han it is to indulge in
long prayers.
Show me the man who would go to
heaven alone if he could, and l will
show you ore who will never be admit
ted there himself,
Everything may be mimicked by hy-
pOcrisy but humility and love united,
the more rare. the more radiant wher
they meet.
The great mistake in many of the
plans for recognizing society consists
in supposing the system can supply the
want of sense.
1t is common for men to err, but 1t is
only fool that perseveres in his error !;
a wise man, therefore, alters his opinion
but fool never.
W0uldst thou with thyself become ac-
quainted, then see what others are doing
But wOuldst thou understand others,
look into thine own heart.
A man trained to self denial meets
trials with an amount of reserved moral
force quite inexplicable to those less
habituated to self.control.
A friendship that makes the least
noise is very often the most useful for
this reason one should prefer prudent
friend to a Jealous one.
Events are only the shells of ideas, and
are often the fluent thought of ages that
is Crystallized in a moment by the stroke
of a pen or the point of bayonet.
Applause waits on success. The tickle
multitude, like the light straw that
floats along the stream, glides with the
current still, and follows fortune.
A good deal of the trouble of Gods
people arises from a mistake and misap-
prehension of God. They judge of God
by their sense, and not by his promise
by their own frame and not by his con-
slant nature.
All Of Gods children have received
His Spirit, whereby they are made
humble as regards their sins believing
as regards Christ holy as regards their
conscience, and watchful in their effort
to keep Gods commandments.
1t is a great thing when our Gethsem-
ane hours come, when the cup of bitter
ness is pressed to our lips, and when we
feel that it may pass away, to feel that
It is not fate, that it is not the necessity,
but divine love for good ends working
upon US.
If any one speak i'll of thee fee to thy
own conscience, and examine thy own
heart il thou be guilty, it is just
correction if not guilty, it is fair in
struction; make use of both so shalt
thou dlstil honey out of gall, and out of
Ru open enemy a secret friend
Try and shu- ne llany temptations
that you are cOnstan,.y meeting with as
you journey through life. They assail
you from every standpoint. and by their
deceptive influence endeavor 20 entice
you into dens of iniquity and vice
Beware and have the courage to say no.
Alas it is not till time with reckless
hand has torn out half the leaves from
the book Of human nature, that man be-
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