Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-03
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Procure not friends in haste, and when
thou hast q friend part not with him IN
haste.
He that would sooth sorrow must not
argue OF the vanity o. the most deceit
ful hopes.
1t is seldom that a great talker wants
enemies; the man of sense speaks little
and hears much.
There is almost no man but sees clear
er and sharper tina vices IL o speaker
than the virtues.
People who are e~xtravagant on them
selves are often wonderfully ingenious
in deyising plans of economy for others.
Acquire habits of observation; we live
in a world OF wonder and o Thousand
obejcts appeal to Jul observation, and
will repay it.
Whenever you are angry With one you
love, think that that dear one might die
that moment, and your anger will
vanish at once
a private family and a kingdom, is for q
husband and a prince sometimes to drop
their prerogatiyes.
Disappointment in friendships arises
chiefly not from liking our friends too
much, but an over-estimate of their lik-
ing for or opinion of us.
1t is little the sign of q wise or good
man to suffer Temperance TO be trans
crossed in order to purchase this repute
of q generous entertainer.
Beauty in q modeet woman is like fire
or a sharp sword at q distance; neither
doth the n burn nor the other wound
those that come not too near them.
There is no real growth OF character
except by a conquest over opposing
difficultles-the dong right when it is
against our lnolinations and prejudices.
Life in ell its various phases is made
up of receiving and bestowing, and be
who fancies he can do without either
loses more than half OF life's power and
happiness.
Those though in highest place; who
slight and disoblige their friends, shall
infallibly come to know the value of
hem, by having ~ when they shall
most need them.
It does us good to admire what is
good and beautiful; but It does us in
6nitely more good to love il. We grow
like what we admire; but we become
one With what we love.
There is no royal road to study. to
achievement or success anywhere; il is
by the old plebian path of rugged toll
that men reach the heights of attain
ment and the temple of fame.
Caution in crediting, reserve in sneak.
ing, and in revealing ones self to a yery
few, arc the best securities both OF peace
and a good understanding with the
world, and to the outward peace OF our
own minds.
How can q man learn. to know him.
selff By reflection never-only BY &C.
ton. In the measure in which he seeks
to do his duty shall he know what ia in
him. But what is his duty? The de.
mand of the hour.
Personalities are the bane of familiar
discourse. If conversation must turn
upon idle report, and talk degenerate
into idle tattle, rather than to submit to
this drying up process OF the brain let
US set q seal upon our lips.
4ahmember that it IS not he who gives
abuse or blows who ~affronts, but the
view we take of these things as insult
ing; when therefore, any one proyokes
you, be assured that it is your own
upinion that provokes you.
he who can wait for what he desires
takes b course not to be exceedingly
grleved if he fails of it; he, on the CON
trary, who labors after q thing too i'm
patiently, thinks the success, whsn it
comes, IS noe q recompense equal to all
the pains he has been OF about it.
l Tapaval ara 1i.,hf oyl -aaI... - ~
and wsyellng, and changeable, and even
dance; yet God has made them part of
the oak; IN 30 doing he has given as a
lesson not to deny the stout heartedness
within because we see the llghtsomeness
! without.
Taste, II 1T mean anything but q pal
try connoisseurship, must mean a gen.
eral susceptibility to truth and noble-
ness; a sense to discern, and a heart to
love and reverence all beauty, order,
goodness, wheresoever and in whatso-
ever forms and accomplishments they
are to be seen.
III we apply ourselves seriously to wis.
dom, We shall never live without true
pleasure, bat learn ,to be pleased with
everything. We shall be pleased with
wealth as far as it enables us to benefit
others; with poverty, in not having
much to care for; and with ebscurlty,
for being unepyied.
Everything that has been learned in
youth, and everything we learn day by
day, can be converted into power that
n make us better parents and chill.
dren, better brothers and sisters, better
nelghbors and citizens, better men and
women, if only vitalized and brought
INTO living activity by character and
will.
Contempt, even In its ,incipient state,
banlshes all real beneYolencs or nelpful.
ness. 1t kills sentiment. DESTROYS the
desire and banishes the power of doing
good. Attempts made to assist another
IN this epirit are like aims thrown
scornfullyt to o beggar; they can only il.
suit and wound without benefittine
either the giyer or the receiver.
The man who exercises largely
every day, who lives out
Of doors, who works OF q
hearty manual craft under healthy con-.
ditlons, will. il, in q good state of health,
probably find himself able to dIgest and
assimulate pretty we'll any kind of food
not taken III excess. The man who fol-
lows Q ~sedentary calling must, even II in
gooe health, take far more care of him.
self.
In life sincerity is the sure touchstone
OF character. The good and valuable
man 10 he who strives to realize day by
day his Own sincere conceptions of true
manhood. Thousands are struggling to