The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-05-21
NUGGETS OF GOLD.

NUGGETS OF GOLD.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a
way as not to injure future ones.-
Seneca.
If thou desirest ease, in the first
place take care of the ease of thy mind.
Fuller.
The true work of art is but the
shadow of the divine perfection.-Mi-
chael Angelo.
There is no compensation for the
woman who feels that the chief rela.
ton Of her life has been mistake.
She has lost her crown.-George Eliot.
God hides some ideal in every human
soul. At some time in our life we feel
trembling, fearful longing to do some
good thing. Life finds it's noblest
spring of excellence in this hidden i'm
pulse to do good.-Robert Collyer.
1t is supremacy, not precedence, that
we ask for the Bible; it is contrast, as
well as resemblance, that we must feel
compelled to insist on. The Bible is
stamped with speciality of origin, and
an Unreasonable distance separates
it from all competitors.-W. E. Glad
stone.
When God has great work for any
one to do in the world He usually gives
him peculiar training for it, and that
training is just what no earthly friend
would choose for him, and sometimes
1t is SO long continued that there seems
to us to be little time left for him to
work. Mary Lyon.
Myriads of our fellow creatures have
persisted because those around them
did not know how to feed them, The
time, indeed, is at hand when syste-
matte lectures on food will be part of
medical education, when the value of
feeding in disease is admitted to be as
important as the administration of
dicines.-Fothergill
Every human soul has a complete
and perfect plan cherished for it in the
heart of Coda divine biography
marked out which it enters into life to
live. This life, rightly unfolded, will
be complete and beautiful whole. an
experience led on by God and unfolded
by his secret nurture as the trees and
flowers by the secret nurture of the
world. We live in the divine thought.
We till place in the great, everlasting
plan of Gods intelligence. We never
sink below his care, never drop out of
his cOunsel.-Horace Bushnell.
But however general custom NAV
hurry us away in the stream of COM
mon error, there is no evil, no crime, so
great as that of being cold in matters
which relate to the common good.
This is in nothing more conspicuous
than in certain Willingness to receive
anything that tends to the diminution
of such as have been conspicuous in
'truments in our service. Such incli-
nations proceed from the most low and
vile corruption of which the soul of
nan is capable. This effaces not only
he practice, but the very appreciation
IT honor and virtue; and has had such
IN effect that, to speak freely, the very
ense OF public good has no longer a
part even of our conversations.-Sir r.
steele.
The envious man is in pain upon all
occasions which ought to give him
pleasure. The relish of his life is in
7erted, and the objects which admins
er the highest satisfaction to those
Who are exempt from this passion give
he quickest pangs to persons who are
ubject to it. All the projections of
heir fellow creatures are odiOus.
outh, beauty, valor and wisdom are
rovocations of their displeasure.
What wretched and apostate state
his is! to be offended with excellence,
nd to hate man because we approve
i'm! The condition of the envious
nan is the most emphatically misera-
lie; he is not only incapable of rejoic-
1g in anOtherS merit or success, but
yes in world wherein all mankind
re in a plot against his quiet, by study
lg their own happiness and advan-
age.-Steele.
It is when considered as the passage
} another world that the cOntempla-
on of death becomes holy and reli-
lous; that is, calculated to promote a