Daily Republican., 1889-04-23
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.

There arc few things more productive
OF evil In society than suspicious dispo.
tition. He who Is always on the watch
for wfong-do'ng actually fosters 1t. He
may fancy that he Ia foe TO evil, but In
truth, by letting It dwell In his mind, he
becomes its promoter. The gross injustice
he does to the innocent is but part OF the
injury. He stirs up rosentful feelings, is
the cause of quarrels, destroys friendship,
embltters intercourse, sows seeds of dis
happiness and that of many others.
Since the worst OF times afford imitable
examples of virtue; since no deluge OF
vice 10 like to be go general but more than
eight Will escape; eye well those heroes
who have held their heads above water,
who have touched pitch and not been de
filed, and In the common conta2ion have
remained interrupted.
Beneiicence Is running stresm. II
money flows out OF Christian mans
pocket, 1t wilt almost miraculously flow
In again, just as water flows into chan
mel whose waters have 70 gush out. Many
good mans purse is like q syphon, the
very emptying OF which insures it's refill
ing.
You cannot keep dead level. long, If
you burn everything down fat to make
it. Why, bless your soul, If all the cities
Of the world were reduced to ashes, you d
have new set OF millionaires In couple
OF years or SO, out OF the trade in potash.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is
the doubt whether one may not be going
to prove ones self fool; the truest hero
ism is to resist the doubt, and the pro-
.daak
to be resisted and when to be obeyed.
Action and selt-renunciation lead alike
to happiness; for he who either acts or
denies himself reaps the harvests of both
virtues. Rich action, undertaken heed
less OF consequences, is indeed renuncia-
ton.
| Winter is, on the whole, the trium-
phan. season OF the moon, a moon devoid
of sentiment, If you choose, but with the
reireshment Of purer intellectual liz ht
the cooler orb Of middle lie.
The past is for us; bnt the sole terms
on which 1t can become ours are Its sub
ordination to the present. Only an in
ventor knows how to borrow, and every
man is or should be an inventor.
The man who plumes himself upon his
wisdom In minding his own bus ness il
blind to the fact that his own business is
made possible only by maintaining o
healthy state.
Him | reckon the most learned scholar,
not who can unearth me the buried dy-
nasties of Sesostris and Ptoleny, but who
can unfold the theory OF this particular
Wednesday.
He who loves most generously, asking
for nothing again, will receive most
plenteously the affection which eau come
only as spontaneous Offering Of the
heart.
Life is continually Weighing US In
very sensitive scales, and te ling every
one Of us precisely what his real weight
is to the last grain of dust.
Ifyou live according to what nature
requires, you will never be poor; if &c.
cordlng TO the notions of men, you will
never be rich.
Ignorance, with indifIereDcy for truth
is nearer to 1t than opinion with I'M
grounded inclination, which is the grea
source of error.
II Is a fine observation of Plato In BIZ
Laws" that atheism Is disease OF tn
soul before 1t becomes an error Of the I'm
derstanding
1t is sufficiently humiliatlng to GU
nature 10 reflect that our knowledge Il
but as the rivulet, our ignorance as tn,
J sea.
A man must be excessively stupid, a!
we as uncharitable, who believes there i
no virtue but on his own side.
Affection Is the school of virtue it cor
reefs levity, aud interrupts the confdenc,
Of SHINING.
! In learning anything, as little as pos
sible should be proposed to the mint
first.