The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-08-04
GRAINS Of TRUTH.

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GRAINS OF TRUTH.
Economy is of itself great revenue.
Cicero.
Tits bsCter to do the idlest thing ir
the world than to sit idle for half
hour.
There is no earthly fulflment into
which that dark shadow, Regret: does
not enter.
The more anyone speaks Of himself,
the less he likes to hear another talked
Children are often condemned as liars
who are only dreanlers interpreting
their visions.
Life is not prone to offer twice the
chances that undecided fingers let slip.
Christian Reid.
No one, large or small, should be al
lowed to exhibit a peevish Immature,
either by word or deed.
We serve master who lets nothing
20 to waste, not a drop Of the sweat OF
our Observation-Disclosures Ozanaln.
The least and most imperceptible i'm
pressiors received in our infancy have
conquences very important. and Of
long duration.
Reluctant blame is the blame that
goes to the hearts and consciences OF
the objects of it, and the greatest merit
OF it is that while 1t condemns it does
not discourage Arthur Helps.
| The created world is but small
parenthesis in eternity, aud short ill.,
| terpositior for time, between such a
state Of duration as was before it. and
may be after it.-~Sir Thomas Browne.
Yesterday I plucked Up some plants
and flung them on the duns-heap. ].
found them this morning biossoming
and smiling, Thus do beautiful souls
flourish under humiliaJion.-~Abbe
Roux.
Every desire bears it's death III its
very qualification. Curiosity languishsa
under repeated stimulants. and novel
! ties cease to excite surprise, until at
length we cannot wonder even at 6.
miracle. -Washington Irving.
! There are dull periods, which will
come now and then, when the wheels Of
/ life have slackened speed, OF come to
standsiill, till some unforeseen circum-
stances happens to screw theln up to
full working condition again.-Mrs.
Alexander.
( Looking down from Croagh Shee long
ago, the sea used to seem to lis as smooth
as glass; yet we knew that If. at that
moment, we were in a boat on it's sur
face, we should be tossed about sadly.
So with the world seen from q distance,
Father Russell.
There are mild answers" which in
!, turning sway WRATH only send it to
the other end Of the room; and to have
discussion coolly waived when You
feel that justice is all on Your side is
even more exasperating in aociaI inter
course than in philosophy-George
Eliot.
Lord Charles Somerset was telling y
story about his walking in the woods at
the Cape one day, when he came sud-
denly on huge shaggy lion. Think
ing to brighten him. said the noble
lord, II ran at him with all my might
"Whereupon,' said another interrupt
> ing, she ran away with all his name .,
Gust so," said his lordship.
The world above is a, reality With the
Irish peasant. No people have more
intense faith in the unseen. IT is
their religious temperament, 50 child
like in it's simplicity and trust. that
alone makes their life Of privation az
u durable, and enables them to meet all
sorrows, even death itself, with che
pathetic fatalism expressed liz Che
phrase 50 often heard from peasant
lips--''lt is this will Of God, LADY
Wilde.
I Facts arc to the mind the same thing
as food to the body. On the due diges
ton of facts depends the strength and
wisdom of thu one, just as vigor and
health depend on the other. The
wisest in council, the ablest iii oabate,
and tie most agreeable companion ia
the commerce of human life, is Che
man who has assimiiated to his under
standing the greatest number OF facts.
=, -Burk
A ship that has two mates and no
canta (;Ourtshin