The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-04
GEMS OF THOUGHT,
Peace Is prayer.-Fenelon.

Pain is the outcome of sin.-Buddha.
Philosophy Is the art of living.-Plu-
tarch.
power.-Amiel.
| To climb steep hills requires slow pace
at first.-Shakespeare.
Study nature as the countenance of God.
Charles kingsley.-
Music is q prophecy OF what life Is to be.
Mrs. L. NJ. Child.
The press is the foe of rhetoric but the
friend of reason.--Colton.
Negligence is the rust of the soul that
corrodes through all her best resolves
Feltham.
We think very few people sensible. ex.
cept those who are of our opinion.-Roche-
foucauld.
The same refinement which brings us
new pleasures. exposes US to new palms,
Bulwer.
Money Is a hand maiden II thou knowest
how to use IT. a mistress, IL thou knowest
not.-Horace.
Most people Judge others either by the
company they keep, or by their fortune
Rochefoucauld.
Every man who observes vigilantly and
resolves steadfastly. grows unconsciously
into genius.-Bulwer.
No Joy In nature is so sublimely affect
ing as the Joy of a mother at the good for
tune Of her child.-Richter.
The two powers which in my opinion con-
st,tute q wise man are those of bearing
and forbearing.
The passions are like fire. useful in n
thousand ways and dangerous only In one.
through their excess.-Bovee.
When l was happy I thought knew
men, but II was fated that should know
them only in misfortune.
II q man speaks or acts with pure
thought, happiness follows him like a
shadow that never leaves him.-Buddha.
1t Is seldom that God sends such calam-
tiles upon man as men bring upon them
selves and suffer wilHngly.-Jeremy Tay-
lor.
All sects are different because they
come from men; morality Is everywhere
the same, because it comes from God.--
Voltaire.
There is no mockery like the mockery Of
that spirit which looks around in the
world and believes that all is emptiness
E. II. Chaplin.
What I admire In Columbus is not his
having discovered a world. but his having
gone in search for It on the faith of an
opinion.-Turgot.
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally Of
the soul into the unbound infinite? No man
ever prayed heartily without learning
something.-Emerson
Prejudice against a lord because he Is a
lord Is losing the chance of finding good
fellow, as much as prejudice against a
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Willis.
Let go thy hold when great wheel runs
down the hill, lest 1t break thy neck with
following 1t; but the great one that goes
UP the hill, let him draw thee after
Shakespeare.
Poverty Is uncomfortable, as I can tes-
tify; but nine times out of ten the best
thing than can happen to n young man
Is to be tossed overheard and compelled
to sink or swim for himself.-Garfleld
A man who understands nothing of as-
riculture, OF trade, of human nature Of
past history, of the principles of law, cam
not pretend to be more than a mere en-
piric in political legislation.-F. ". Rob-
ertson.
The pooy are only those who feel poor
and poverty consists in feeling poor The
rich, as we reckon them, and among them
the very rich, In a true scale would be
found very INDECENT and ragged.-Emer-
son.
Whatever you are by nature. keep to It;
never desert your own line of talent. Re
what nature intended you for and you will
succeed; be anything else and you will be
ten thousand times worse than nothing
Sydney Smith.
The art Of pleasing consists in being
pleased. To be amiable is to be satisfied
with ones self and others.-Hazlitt.
BY poetry we mean the art Of doing by
means Of words what the painter does by
means Of colors.-Macaulay.
The polite Of every country seems to
have but one character. A gentleman from
Sweden differs but little. except In trifies,
from one of any other country. 1t Is
among the vulgar we arel to find those dis
tinctions which characterize a people,
Goldsmith.
Be as far from desiring the popular love
AZ fearful to deserve the popular hate:
ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee
to death: the other will crush thee to de-
struction: to escape the first, be not ambi-
tious: to avoid the second, be not seditious.
-Quarles.
II cannot but be injurious to the human
mind never to be called into effort: the
habit Of receiving pleasure without any
sxertion Of thought. by the mere excite
msnt Of curiosity and sensibility. may b
ranked amoag the worst effects Of habit
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