Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-06-20
ONE GENT
GRAINS OF GOLD.

GRAINS OF GOLD.
We forgive so long as we love.
He who talks sows, he who listens
reaps.
God is the best we know. Matthew
Arnold.
Calumny is like coal; ifit does not burn,
il will soil.
Every ut.erance creates some kind OF
an imp ession.
The only way to have friend is TO be
one. Emerson.
@Grape juice kills more than grape
shot, says Sturgeon.
What makes life dreary is the want OF
motive.-IGeorge Eliot
Our acts make or mar us; we are the
children of our own deeds
The wise and active conquer difficult
ties by daring to attempt them.
The wise man knows he knows moth
ing; the fool knows he knows ALL
A little seeing saves much looking; a
little speaking saves much talking.
Rather hungry on going to bed than
debts in the morning. II Turkish Proverb.
He who does not engage in the quar-
rels of others will have few of his own.
All around us in nature we find silent
forces working out the greatest results.
If thou sustain injustice, console thy
self; the true happiness is in doing JUS
tice.
Never utter these words: II do not
know this; therefore il is false. Hindu
Saying.
We always take credit for the good
and attribute the bad to fortune. La
Fontaine.
No cord or cable can draw SO forcibly
or bind so fast as love can do with a
single thread.
The best characters have mixture of
infirmities, and the worst havesometimes
reedeeming virtues.
Modesty and humility are the sobriety
of the mind; temperance and chastity
are the sobriety of the body.
Goodness and absenceof heat and haste
indicate fine qualities. A gentleman
makes no noise; a lady is serene.
Anger is like
A full hot horse,
Who being allowed his way
Self mettle tires him.
-Ishakespcare.
II is impossible that anything SO nat
ural, so necessary, and so universal as
death should ever have been designed
by Providence as an evil TO mankind
| [Swift.
Cast forward the eye of the spirit;
awake in your souls the imaginative
power, which carries forth what is fair
est, what is highest life, away beyond
the star.-[Goethe.
We spoil everything by hurry. We
are wearing ourselves out as nation by
our hurry and intensity-too eager to get
a living to be willing to stop to live
Rev. DIR. Osgood.
Look about for the halt and the blind,
and visit the bedridden, and the afflicted,
and the deranged; and they viii make
you ashamed of complaining of your
lighter Affections.
Look steadfastly into the silent CONT.
nents of Death and Eternity. A brave
mans Judgments, says Carlyle, abouthis
own sorry work in the field of Time are
not apt to be lenient
Let the things which thy heart sug-
gests to thee to say be well considered
before they pass on to the tongue; for
thou wilt perceive that it would be well to
keep back many of them.
Humility is virtue that all preach,
few practice, and everybody is content
to hear. The master thinks 1t good
doctrine for his servant, the laity for the
clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
The history of persecution is history
of endeavors to cheat nature, to make
water run up hill, to twist ropeof sand.
1t makes no difference whether the act
ors be many or one, tyrant or mob.
Ny friend, asks philosopher, do you
know why the work you accomplish fails
either to give pleasure to yourself or to
others9 1t is because it is not cheerfully
done, and therefore appears discolored.
The best helper in trouble, the best
guide to the erring, is not one who is ut
| terly unnerved by the distress which his
sympathy causes him. Like the skillful
surgeon, his head must be clear and his
hand steady if he is to probe TO the seat
of the trouble and administer efficient
relief.
Men give me some credit, says Alex
ander Hamilton, for genius. All the
genius have lies in this: When have
a subject in hand, study 1t profoundly.
Day and night it is before me. IexpIore
it in all its bearings. Ny mind becomes
pervaded with 1t. Then the effort which
/ make the people are pleased to call the
fruit of genius. It ID the fruit Of labor
and thought.
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