Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-13
SUNDAY

Perslssant. industry is the best anti
dote for temptation.
Never shirk the effort which is reauir-
ed to live correctly.
1t is a great art and philosophy of life
to make the best of the present.
You needn't pack up any worries.
You can get them anywhere as yon 20
along.
The great beauty of charity is privacy;
there is o sweet force even in an anony-
nous penny.
1t has done me good to be somewhat
parched by the heat and drenched by
the rain of life.
God gives his children strength to
sustain such burdens as he imposes. not
such as they devise.
When death, the great ~reconcilsr, has
come, it is our tenderness that we
repent of, but our severlty.-George
Eliot.
1t is often said that second thoughts
are best. So they are in matters of
Judgment, but not in matters of con-
science.
We instinctigely applaud the courage
OF self-assertion; we should honor with
. still higher applause the courage of
self restraint.
Good nature, like a bee, collects its
honey from every herb. IL nature,
like q spider, sucks poison from the
sweetest flowers.
Ten thousand of the greatest faults in
our neighbors are Of less consequences to.
us than one of the smallest in ourselves.
Archbishop Whately,
Vice should always disgust; nor
should the graces of gayety or the
dignity OF courage be SO united as to
reconcile it to the mind.
Faith, patience, heroic love, devont
courage. gentleness, are not apt to be
formed when there are no doubts, no
irritations, no difficulties.
No man is born into the world whose
work is not born with him. There is
always work, and tools to work withaI,
for those who will-Beecher.
Trouble is appointed for us all here
below. and there ome d time wheh We
need more comfort and help than the
things of this life a give.
Any everyday subject, treated by a
poet, Will take a poetic and general char
acter; hence d favorite poetry is what
Goethe cslled the poetry of clrcum-
stance.
What though scandal assail you? Let
your life disprove it. Plato, hearing
that sone asserted he was a very bad
man, said, Il shall take care SO t. live
that nobody will believe them.n
He deserves disappointment who
gives with the hope of return. The
object of comforting q benefit should be
the good of the receiver, without regard
to any collateral advantage to ourselves.
A good deal Of trouble of Gods people
arises from q mistake and misapprehen-
sion OF God. They Judge of God by
their sense, AID not by his promise; by
their own frame, and not by his constant
nature.
Qaiok is the succession of human
events. The cures of to-day are seldom
the cares of Tomorrow. And, when we
lie down at night, we may safely say to
most OF q troubles, "Ye. have done
your worst. and we shall meet no more"
Shallow men believe IN their luck,
believe in circumstances: IT was some
body's name, or he happened to be there
at the time, or it was so then, and
another day it would have been other
wise Strong men believe in cause and
effect.
Anguish of mind has driven thousands
to suicide, anguish OF body, none. This
proves that the health OF the mind is of
far more consequence TO our happiness
than the health of the body, although
both of them are deserving OF much
more attention than either of them
receives.
The philosopher is he who lives in the
thought OF things: the christian ia he
who lives in the things themselves.
The philosopher occupies himself with
Gods decree, the christian with Gods
will; the philosopher with What Gt,d
may intend, the christian with what
God want him to dc-George Macdonald.
DO not allow yourself to be drawn in
to q dispute. II a man has a quarrel
some temper let him alone. The world
Will o ind him employment. He will
will o o meet with some one stronger
than himself who will repay him better
than you 4. A man may be engaged
IN lighting dusls all his life if he is dis.
posed to quarrel.
hFoiJ buiuB tuat HhppSnS{5O US leaves
some trace behind; everything contribu-
tes i'm perceptibly to make us what we
are. Yet it is often dangerous to. make
q strict account of 1t. For either we
grow prond and negligent, or downoast
and dispirited; and both are equally
injurious in their consequences. The
snrest plan is just to do tie nearest task
that lies before MS.
Service is one Of the conditions Of
society. 1t is due from all to all in
different ways, and the more fully and
heartily it is given the more happily
and permanently will social lifs progress.
So far from servi,e being q mark of
degradation, it is the very mark Of
nobility, and he who refuses to render ii,
what ever be his talents. or power, or
wealth. or education, is the true object
OF contempt.
1t is always the insignificant man who
sneers at HE neighbors, and under
rates he value OF the work they do
Suah people have no hope of rising in
own acSaan, hnf Z hy ixar-