Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-25
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Pride is increased by ignorance; those
assume the most who know the least.
Ingratltude is SO deadly o poison that
1t destroys the very bosom in which it is
harbored.
If you would know one OF the minor
secrets of happiness, it is this, cultivate
cheap pleasures.
The most delicate, the most sensible
OF all pleasures consists in promoting the
pleasures of others.
OF all the evil spirits abroad at this
hour in the world, insiucerity is by far
the most dangerous.
Great men are those who see that
spiritual is stonger then material force;
that thoughts rule the world.
Dare to change your mind. confess
your error, and alter your conduct, when
convinced that you are wrong.
If the true history of quarrels, public
and private, were honestly written it
would be silenced by an uproar of
derisIon.
AS we grow in years and experience,
we become more tolerant, for it is rare
to see a fault we have not ourselves
committed.
The man who is suspicious lives in q
constant state of unhappiness. It would
be better for his peace of mind to be too
trustful than too guarded.
q mans character is like his shadow,
which sometimes follows and sometimes
precedes him, and which is occasionally
longer, occasionally shorter than he is.
Death makes o beautiful appeal to
charity. When we look upon the dead
form, 80 composed and still, the kind
ness and love that are in us all come
forth.
Let US remember thosethat want nee
essaries, as we ourselves should have
desired to be remembered had it been
our sad lot to subsist on other mems
charity.
Do good for your own satisfaction, and
do not care for what follows. Be the
cause of gray hairs to no one; neyerthe.
less, for the truth gray hairs ever are to
be disregarded.
Blessed is the memory of those who
have kept themselves unspotted from
the world Yet more blessed the memo
ry of those who have kept themselves
unspotted in the world.
In a valiant suffering for others, and
not in o slothful making others suffer
for Us, did nobleness ever lie. Every
noble crown is, and on earth will for
ever be, O crown of thorns.
There is much that is and must be
lone for pay, and it is right that it
should be SO; but there is also much
that can be best accomplished without
any thought of pay-even the pay OF
l1nua-hnfs cipnrlv frn,a tho lopira ~
doing good.
When injury is inflicted on an indiyid.
ual, the offence is obvious, and cannot
be ignored; but, VIXEN it is spread over
a large number, it is comparatively OBJ.
SQUIRE, and does not carry with it SC
strong a feeling of regret, or self reproach
or Indignation.
While thu male thinks, labors and bat.
ties without, the domestic woes and
wrongs ara the lot of women, and the
it~tienesses are so bad. so infinitely fiercel
and bitteier than the great, that I would
not change my condition, no not to be
Helen, Queen Elizabeth, or the happiest
she in history.
Two persons who have chosen each
other out Of all the species, with design
TO Dc each others mutual comfort n
entertainment, have in that action
bound themselves to be good-humored,
affable, discreet, forgiviug, patient and
joyful with respect to each Others fraili-
ties and imperfections to the end OF
their lives.
To live on. your own convictions
against the world is to overcome the
world. To believe that what is truest
in You is true for all; to abide by that
and not be over anxious to be heard or
understood or sympathized with, GER
tain hat OF last MI must acknowledge
the came, and that while you stand firm,
the world will come round to you-that
is independence. To enter into the
world, and there live firmly and fearless.
~ according to your VI concienoe-
that is christian greatness.