The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-03-24
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.

To make history athestic is to make
humanity anarchistic.
To be misunderstood by those we
love is bitterest OF all.
A brute can face sword. 1t takes
courage to face sneer.
Audacity as against modesty will win
the battle over most men.
Error OF opinion may be tolerated
where reason is left free to combat it,.
Mems backs were made to bend, and
the race of parasites is still in good re-
pute.
Try not to magnify and prolong grief
nor to minimize and abbreviate glad
ness.
believe we ought to regard Chris
tianity as n general letter of introduc-
ton.
If the earth were covered with flow
crs oil the year round, tho bees would
get lazy.
The unwise complain that the good
suffer. They are the only ones who
can afford to suffer.
Mind your business with your abso-
Lutte heart and soul but first see that
it is a good business.
Trust men and they will be true to
you; treat them greatly and they will
show themselves great.
1t is not necessary for all men to be
great in action. The greatest and su.
blimest power is simple patience.
The cheerful live longest in years.
and afterward in our regards. Cheer
fulness is the offshoot of goodness.
When WEAKNESS come, take breath.
ing spell. OF one thing be sure-to.
days work we'll done will prepare you
for tomorrow.
A real duty is necessity of the hu.
man nature. without seeing and doing
which man can never attain to the
truth and blessedness of his own being.
The temper of disbelief or denial is
perilous. because it closes the mind to
the entrance of truth. 1t is not neces.
sary to put out the sun shut your ewes
and you will be in darkness.
The sense of duty is the fountain of
human rights. In other words. the
same inward principle that teaches the
former bears witness to the latter. Du-
ties and rights must stand and fall to-
gether. .rt
There is nothing so terrible as activ.
ity without insight, says Goethe. I
would opeL every one of Argus ewes
before used one Of Briareus' hands.
says Lord Bacon. Look before Won
leap, says John Smith, all over the
world.
He who does the best he can is
always improving. His best of yester-
day is outdone to-day, and his best of
to-day will be outdone to morrow. II
is this steady progress, no matter from
what point it starts, that forms the
chief element of all greatness and good
ness.
1t is because 80 few have definite
goals before them that so many fail +; it
is because so many aim at impossibili-
ties that so few succeed it is because
there is too much wishing for success,
with so little unremitted striving after
it that so many end with wishing il is
because there is too much eagernoss for
speedy triumph that so many end in
defeat.
The worship of a beauty above
earthly shows is the highest homage of
true religion. Eternal movement is
the characteristic and destiny of the
modern mind. All civilization is a con.
fict of opposite forces. To plant for
the future is better than to war with the
past. Life should be catholic as na.
ture. Beauty is the great mediator be.
tween the flesh and the spirit No use
can exhaust the sunless income of the
universe.
We may talk and reason, we may re.
prove and expostulate, we muy praise
and blame, hut, after all, it is our own
character, our own example, the moral
atmosphere in which we dwell that will
act upon others with tenfold force. We
may accept it rs an assured fact that
those who come into intimate relations
will to greater or less degree resem.
BILE each other, for, without intending
it, they communicate their emotions to
each other, they inspire each other
with their feelings, they transmit to
each other their desires, and they can
no more help absorbing them than tho
flower can help absorbing the dew
which descends upon it.