Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-02
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

The fawning, sneaking and fattering
hypocrite will do or be anything for his
own advantage.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds
rise and fall, but the moral law is writ
ten on tablets of eternity.
It is not sufficient not to intend to do
wrong; We must intend to do right, and
carry out our attentions also.
The worthiest people are the most in
jured by scandal, as we usually find that
to be the best fruit which the birds have
been pecking at.
It is said that there are more lies told
in the sentence "I am glad to see you"
than in any other six words in the
English language.
I wonld have inscribed on the curtains
OF your bed and the walls of your cham
Der. "If you do not rise early you can
never make progress in anything"
But we get accustomed to mental as
well as bodily pain, losing our insensibil-
ity to it; it becomes q habit of our lives,
and we ceass to imagine q condition of
perfect ease as possible to us.
There is a power in real goodness
which commands the reverence of those
who hate us, and this the proudest Sin.
ners often 30 far feel as to be unable to
carry on their violent opposition against
1t.
The more people do, the more they
can do. He that does nothing renders
himself incapable to do anything;
whilst we are executing one work, we
are preparing ourselves to undertake
another.
1t you do not set apart your hours of
reading, il you suffer yourself or any
one else to break in upon them, your
days will slip through your hands n
profitable and frivolous and really I'M
enjoyed by yourself.
A healthy sensitlveness accepts the
pain whicn it must bear as a wholesale
medicine, not dwelling upon it's bitter
taste, not upbraldinR those who hand it,
moi regarding it as u permanent evil,
but simply using it for self-improve-
ment.
Hate keeps the heart always full ten.
and senses. 1t confuses the whole man.
It robs the stomach of nervous power,
and. digestion being impaired, the fail
ure of life begins at oHoe Those there
fore who are born with this passion
should give it up.
The power of the will can be cultiva-
ted; and there is nothing more deserv-
ing the attention OF young men. At the
same time, decision OF character should
not be confeunded with the u%nreasoning
obstinancy which is rather the charac-
teristic Of the donkey than OF an intelli-
gent human being.
The few moments in the course OF
each day which q man absorbed in some
worldly pursuit may csrelessly expend in
kind words or charities to those around
him-snd kindness to an animal is one
Of these-are perhaps, in the sight of
heaven, the only time that he has lived
to any purpose worthy of recording.
In private and in public the surest
way to avoid endorsements, perplexi.
ty, trouble, and annoyance ID to tell the
truth. and admit an error il one has been
committed, and insist upon a clear under
standahle explanation Of any question
that arises between two or more, and
about which there may be honestly two
differing opinions. Ssl .
Perhaps a gentleman is rarer than
we think for. Which OF us can point |
out many such in his circle, men whose
aims are generous. whose truth is con-
slant, and not only constant in its kind
but elevated in degree, whose want OF
meanness makes them simple, who can
look the world honestly in the face,
with an equal manly sympathy for the
great and the small. 1