The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-04
NUGGETS OF GOLD.

NU44Elo Of GOhD.
There's lots of religion in beef
steak if you give it to the right man
at the right time-Jerry McAuley.
The epochs of our life are not in the
visible facts, but in the silent thoughts
of the wayside as we walk. Emerson.
BE brief; for it is with words as with
sunbeams- more they are con-
densed the deeper they burn Southey.
There is nothing so sweet as duty,
and all the best pleasures of life come
in the wake of duties done.-Jean
lngelow.
Wherefore do we spend money for
that which is not bread, and your Ia
Dor for that which satisfeth not?-
Isaiah w., 2.
DO good constantly, patiently and.
wisely, and you will never have cause
to say that life was not worth living
George w. Childs.
"A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong, which
is but saying, in other words, that he
is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Pope.
Command and force may often Gre
ate, but can never cure, an aversion;
and whatever anyone is brought to by
compulsiOn, he will leave as soon as he
can.-LOcke.
Our true opportunities come but
once. They are sufficient, but not re-
dundant. We have time enough for
the longest duty, but not for the short
est sin.-James Martineau.
To character and success two things.
contradictory as they may seem, must
go together-humble dependence and
manly Independence; humble depend
ence on God and manly reliance on self.
Wordsworth.
Trial, temptation, are not only nat
ural-they are necessary to success in
life. Moreover, the things which we
usually call trials are not trials after
all. Loss of health, loss of property,
loss of friends-these are not the real
trials. The real trials are the very ones
that Christ suffered from. The real
trial is temptation to doubt our SON
ship, to hold back the testimony, to
shrink from bearing pain.-Rev. F. L.
Chapel.
To live is to take part, however lit
tie that part may be. in benefits for
mankind and in the worlds great hu-
name work; to feel that we do some
thing, though little perhaps, to help
along good causes, which makes our
mite of aid felt in the happiness of
those round about us and afar off.
whom we never see or know. This is
to the conscience, and joy
to the heart, and enlarging to the char
acter.-J. V. Blake.
Duty is debt-something that we
owe to somebody else. There isn't an
duty in life that needs to
wait for the solution of any mans
doubt. There isn't single duty that
needs to wait for the settlement of any
question. Do not allow yourselves,
then, to make excuses. Doubt that
which is not proved; believe that
which is probable; have faith in that
whose past gives reason for faith; be
not credulous.-Rev. Minot j. Savage
Before marriage we cannot be too
nquisitive and discerning in the faults
IF the person beloved, nor after it too
linn sighted and superficial. However
perfect and accomplished the person
appears to you at distance, you will
ind many blemishes and imperfections
n her humOr upon more intimate
which you never discov-
red or perhaps suspected. Here, there
ore, discretion and good nature are to
how their strength; the first will him
Ter your thoughts from dwelling on
What is disagreeable, the other will
aise in you all the tenderness of COM
'assion and humanity, and by degrees
often those very imperfections into
eauties. Addison.
AS in the story of Michael Angelo
nd the angel in the stone, character
making is liberating the best things in