The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-03-19
PlTHY POINTS.

has been the ruin OF thousands.
Wine and passion are racks oft
used to eXtort words from us.
Some use their wits as bravoes their
stilettoes, not for defence but mischief.
Most men know what they hate, few
what they love.
Content hangs not so high, but that
a man on the ground may reach it.
He that loses his conscience has
nothing that is left worth keeping.
Liberality consists less in giving
much, than in giving wisely.
Want of employment is the most
irksome of all wants.
Love that does not take off it's coat
and try to do something is all BLAIR
ney.
The devil hates the man who makes
him take good, square look at him
self.
Vice is sometimes more courageous
than virtue, because it has less to
lose.
They declaim most against the
world who have most sinned against
it.
There are no other persons capable
of STOPPING so low, as they who are
over-anXious to rise.
Sorrow, in its exultation, has an
instructive sympathy with the suffer
ings of others.
Our wealth is always q temptation
to others, and often q snare to our
selves.
The devil doesn't want to break up
the church. What he wants is to run
it.
Coveting what we need not takes
from us the true use and frultlon OF
what we already have.
Men and actions, like objects of sight,
have their points of perspective,
some must be seen at distance.
Who cannot keep his own secret
ought not to complain if another tells
| it.
There are moments when the heart
wakens from sleep to feel itself alone
and in the dark.
He is no mean philosopher who can
give a reason for one half of what he
thinks.
Many gain favor because their en-
nifty is not dreaded, and others be-
cause it is.
Inmoderate pleasures shorten the
existence more than any remedies can
prolong it.
The spirit of poesy is the morning
light which makes the statue of Mem
non sound.
Interest speaks all languages, and
acts all parts, even that of disinter-
estedness itself.
AS long as we remain ignorant of
our duty, our intelligence is in state
ofinactivity.
Men should allow others excellences
to preserve a modest opinion of their
own.
Trust him little who praises all;
him less who treasures all; and him
least who is Indifferent about all.
AS we grow older, it is with hearts
as with heads of hair-it is not easy
to distinguish the true from the false.
There are many who had rather,
meet their bitterest enemy in the field
than their own hearts in their closet.
Let not modesty take away thy
courage in q good cause; but let not
thy courage incline to impudence in
prosperous one.
The reason that most people cast
their eyes upon the follies of others is,
that they may not have to perceive
their own.
A good character is coat of triple
steel, giving security to the wearer,
protection to the oppressed, and in
spring the oppressor with awe.
Those who pursue the stream OF
Truth to it's sources have much climb
ing to do, much fatigue to encounter,
but they see great sights.
Many speak the truth when they say
that they despise riches and prefer
ment; but they mean the riches and
preferment possessed by other men.
The water in the Straits of Gibral-
tar, at the depth of go fathoms, is
four times as salt as that at the sur
face.
Fools are very often found in the
strictest intimacy, as the lighter kinds
of wood are the most closely glued to,
gether.
1t would be great advantage to
some school-masters if they would
steal two hours a day from their
pupils, and give their own minds the
benefit of the robbery,
Our minds receive the ideas and
images of most things originally from
our senses. Set walters at those
Cmqueports to seize all contraband
goods.
The greatest pleasure in life is love
the greatest treasure, contentment
the greatest possession, health; the
greatest ease, sleep; and the best
medicine, true friend.
. Propose continually to yourself new
objects. 1t is only by enriching your
mind that you can prevent it's growing
poor. Sloth benumbs and enervates
regular work excites and strengthens
it-and work is always in our power.
Protested duelists seem to thinl
their lives of no value; and the worlC
will not be likely to quarrel with then
upon the subject, inasmuch as they
, are rather dangerous class to dis
pute with.
Flame is one of the most beautiful
| things in the world. Not sunset sky
in summer, not full-blown tropi,
" flower, is more brilliant than flame
, flame is the flower OF fire. The ivy ha'
no splendor like the mantling flame
it reddens like the thyrsus of the god
. Plutarch says there is not so grea-
difference between beast and beas
as man and man. Wemight GO further
and say there is more difference be
, tween some men and some other mel
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