Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-06-07
MULTUM IN PARvO.
Word. of Wisdom From Celebrated

Words of Wisdom From Celebrated
| Men.
The useful and beautiful are never
Separate.-Periande
Home is the seminary of all other iu
StitutiOnS.--E. III. Chaplin.
The debt habit is the twin brother of
povcrty.-T. I. Munger.
Learning is the dictionary. but sense
the grammar Of science-Sterne.
.Wcdlock's like Wine, not properly
judged Of till the second glass.-Jer-
rold
| Manners arc not idle, but the fruit
of loyal nature and Of noble mind
Tennyson.
In business. three things are neces-
slry, knowledge, temper and time
Feltham.
Peace is such Il precious jewel that
would give anything for it but truth.
| Nm. Henry.
That notion is worthless that will
not with pleasure venture I'LL for its
honor.-Schiller
A letter shows the man it is written
to as well as the man 1t IS written by.
Chesterfield.
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| world for the want of a little courage
Sydney Smith.
He who would free from malice pass
! his days must live obscure and never
merit praise.--Gay.
He who learns and makes no use Of
| his learning is Il beast Of burden with
| load of books.-Saadi.
A Misery is not to be measured from
the nature of the evil, hut from the
temper of the STANDARDIZATION.
We often hold firmer to the last
crown we have amassed than to the
first which we :Slined.-.J. z. Sem.
He who brides the fury Of the bill
lows knows also to put Il stop to the
secret plans of the wicked.-Racine.
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets
division; division makes faction, and
faction brings rrlin.-Quarles.
The voice of parents is the voice of
gods, for to their children they are
heavens lieutenants.-Shakes
The test of the progress of mankind
will be in the appreciation of the char
acter of Washington.-Lord Brousllam.
Mans crimes are his worst enemies.
following him like shadows, till they
drive his steps into the pit he dug
Creon.
Life though Il short is working day.
Activity may lead to evil, but mac
tivity cannot be led to good.-Hannah
More.
taken by weight and measure; so ought
food to be, or by some similar rule
Shelton.
1t is no fattery to give a friend
due character, for commendation is as
much the duty of a friend Us reprehen-
sion.-Plutarch.
Life is hardly respectable if it has
no generous task, no duties or affections
that constitute necessity for existence.
Emerson.
For every evil there is q remedy, or
there is not; if there is one try to
find it; and if there is not, l never
mind it-A1iss Mulock.
The creditor whose appearance glad
dens the heart of a debtor may hold his
head in sunbeams, and his foot on
storms.-Lavater.
The power of applying attention,
steady and undissipated to single OBJ
| ject is the sure mark Of superior
genius.
| Vice incapacitates man from all
public duty; it withers the power of
his understanding, and makes his mind
paralytlc.-Burke.
All that any of us can do in this world
is his simple duty. And an archangel
could do no more than that to advan-
tage.-H. G. Trumbull.
! That is the happiest conversation
where there is no competition, no van
ity, but only a calm, quiet interchange
of sentiment.-Johnson.
| Heaven doth with us as we with
torches do: not light them for ourselves;
for if our virtues did not go forth
of us, 'twere all alike as if we had them
not.-Shakespeare.
We never enjoy perfect happiness;
our most fortunate successes are min
| gled with sadness; some anXieties al
ways perplex the reality of our salts
faction.-Corneille.
The very idea Of the power and right
of the people to establish government
presupposes the duty of every individ-
| ual to obey the established government
Washington.
| independently may be found in CON-
| parative as well as in absolute ahund-
| ance; I mean when a person contracts
| his desire within the limits of his for
| tune.-Shenstone.
Parting and forgetting? What faith
full heart can do these? Our great
thoughts, our great affections, the
| truths Of OIL" life. never leave us. Sure
| ly they cannot be separate from our
consciousness; will follow it whittier
soever they shall go, and are. Of their
nature, divine and immortal.-Thack-
cray.