Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-07-13
PEARLS OF WISDOM.

everything to do with the develop
ment of its inmates, and one can hard !
ly expect to find soft-mannered, deli
cately sensitive young people ltrsu&st
up under the influence of irasclble or
pickering or choleric parents. For
their sakes, disputations and irritable
people should master themselves, lest
the evil crop OF seed sown IN moments
of unreason should rise, like the iabled
dragons teeth, in a harvest of armed
men whom no restraints may be strong
enough to repress.
Our thoughts are often worse than
we are, just as they are often better
than we are And God sees us as we
are altogether, not in separate feelings
or actions, as our fellow-men see u.s.
We are always doing each other in
Justice, and thinking better or worse
of each other than we deserve, be-
cause we only hear and see separate
words OF actions. We don't see each
others whole nature.
The truly polite man is polite to his
children in the nursery, to his en-
lployces in the factory, to the stranger
in the street, to the crowd who jostle
him, to the poor whom he relieves, to
the vicious whom he rebukes, as well
as to those whose society he Graves
and whose esteqm II dear o,him, AL
are his brethren, and TO all he willing
Il ly accords this token of brotherhood.
| The truth may cost many apang to
lutter, strict integrity may have to give
Iup many coveted gain, the courage
lof principle may forfeit the good will
so highly priced or the position so emf
nently desirable; but upon the scale OF
lyears they will lead their adherents to
a position Of honor and happiness COM
, pared with which all that had been
! sacrificed seems utterly trivial.
Il Great thoughts are among our most
lprecious and abiding treasures. They
enlighten our darkness, they people
our solitude, and while other things
fall from us like the leaves which are
: loosened from the greenwood tree, these
remain like the atoms which go to builC
Iup its girth, being woven into the very
substance and tissue Of the soul.
Many laugh at the idea Of being
I IItuSCu Will llltlC l|Abtl'
0 things, "they say, 'please little minds.
lThcy should remember that the grea
! mass oi the population OF our plane
} consists of the merest p gmies, so tina
to turn away from little things, is to be
Indifferent to nine -tenths of what til,
world contains.
Never be sorry for any generou
thing that you ever did, even if it Wa
q betrayed. Never be sorry that yo
b were magnanlmous if the person wa
+; mean afterward. Never be sorry tina
+ you gave; it was right for you to give
Ieven if you were imposed upon. 1o
n cannot afford to keep on the safe sid
i by being mean.
e. Until the mind can love and admire
S and trust and hope, and endure, res
u soned principles of moral conduct al
seeds cast upon the highway of liit
which the unconscious passenger tran
-lpes into the dust, although they woul
10 bear the harvest OF his happiness.
Labor is not in itself disagreeablt
,e Activity is vital element in lite an
~ growth; the young child is full of /
the young man cannot restrain it, an
u if in maturity it seems to decline, it
,4 but transferred from the body TO IL
Ic mental functions.
iEl Such is the sociableness Of music,
II. conforms itself to all companies, boi
. in mirth and mourning; complying
improve that passion with which
finds the auditors most affected.
Poverty is often despair. A POI
e. fellow went TO hang himself but, tint
=, ing a pot Of gold, went merrily hom
he But he who had hidden the pot wei
oo land hung himself.
II. Every age might perhaps produ
1T one or two geniuses if they were II
n sunk under the censure and obloquy
q Exploding, servile, initiating pedants.
81 Hard words are like haiist0nes
re summer, beating down and destro
= ing what they would nourish if tn
lie were melted into drops.
lh Wisdom is an ocean that has
T;o shore; its prospect is not terminal
art by a horizon; its centre is everywhel
nc and its circumference nowhere,
he Be not tine fourth friend of he W
dy had three before thee and lost them.
nd Cara will meet the moonlight
'ae night.