Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-27
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

DEATH ends our woes, and the kind
grave shuts up the mournful scene.--
Dryden.
DosT thou love life? Then do not
squander time; for that is the stuff life
is made of.-Frankli7a.
If you always live with those who
are lame, you will yourself learn to
imp.-Fy0n, the Latin.
AS RICHES and favor forsake man,
we discover him to be fool; but no.
body could find it out in his prosperity.
La Brstyere.
If you would be pungent, be brief;
for it is with words as with sunbeams,
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.-So,lthey.
0 NEPTUNE! You may save me if you
will; you may sink me if you will; but
whatever happens. I shall keep my
rudder true.-Seneca's Pilot
The fate of war is to be exalted in
the morning, and then TO be brought
low enough at night. There is but one
step from triumph to ruin. Napoleon.
READ not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe at first sight and take
for granted, nor to find talk and dis
course, but to weigh and reason and
consider. Lord Bac0,a.:
THERE is rabble amongat the gentry
as we'll as the commonalty, though
their fortunes do somewhat gid their
infirmities, and their purses compound
for their follies.-Br01v11.
CHEERFULNEss is the daughter of
employment; and have known a man
to come home in high spirits from
funeral, merely because he had the
management of it.-Bishop Horne.
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal
our wealth; but if poor, it is not quite
so easy to conceal our poverty. We
shall find it less difficult to hide 1000
guineas than one hole in our coat.
Cotton.
LET it be born in mind that the cords
of love, which bind hearts so closely
together that neither life nor death nor
time nor eternity can sever them, are
woven of threads no bigger than
spiders web.-George S. Hallard.
WHAT causes such characterization in
the amount of gratitude which men ex-
pect for the favors they have done, is
that the pride of the giver and that of
the receiver can never agree as to the
value of the tenefit.-La Rochefou-
caalld.
A MONARCHY is q man. of-war, stanch,
iron-ribbed and resistless when under
full sail; yet a single hidden rock sends
her to the bottom. Our, republic is .
raft, hard to steer and your feet always
wet, but nothing can sink her,
Anonymous. ....-..
The sun should not set upon our
anger, neither should it rise upon our
confidence. We should forgive freely,
but forget rarely. will not be re-
venged; this I owe to my enemy. But
I will remember; and this I owe to my
self.-Colto1a.
The sound of your hammer at five in
the morning or at nine at night, heard
by creditor, makes him easy six
months longer; but if he sees you at a
billiard table or hears your voice at q
tavern, when you should be at work, he
sends for his money the next day
Franklin.
The most agreeable of all companions
is a simple, frank man, without any high
pretensions to an oppressive greatness.
One who loves life. and understands
the use of it; obliging alike at all
hours; above all, Of golden temper,
and steadfast as an anchor. For such
an one we gladly exchange the greatest
genius, the most brilliant wit, the pro-
foundest thinker.