The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-03-17
TIDiGUT.S EOR THE
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a cheer FIJI temper, Joined With inno
cerce, will make beauty attractive.
knowledge delightful and wit good
n iiured.
One need never be without compile
ments if he is willing to bid for them
and is not too particular about their
sincerity.
An ounce of essence is worth a gal
Ion Of fluid. n wise saw may he more
Va liable than Il whole book, and a
plain truth is better than an argyll
ment.
\ true friend is distinguished in
the crisis of hazard. and necessity.
when the gallantrv Of his aid may
show the worth of his soul and the
loyalty Of his heat.
1t is perfectly safe proposition that
without the thouShtfulness, which is
otherwise named tact, no one can find
the fullest measure of success and
pleasure in life
Aged is not to be feared. The older
a good and heathy person grows the
greater becomes his capacity t. enjoy
the deeper, s~eeter and more noble
kinds of happiness, which the world
affords.
he best equipped person is not the
ole whose clothes and manners are
the finest ard the most 70 i>hed, but
the one whose heart is clean and tue
and whose mind is filled and trained.
Peop'e may look at the FMS. hut the
second they will follow.
The idea that a strict fidelity to
truth demands accuracy is one which
is seldom enter tanned: but. until We
receive it as principle and embody it
in action We shall never attain a hi eh
degree of truthfulness.
Self respect is self-res raint. We
| are often held back from unworthy
acts by the knowledge that their COM
mission would make US despise our
se'ves. One Of the severest. as it is
one Of the most inevitable penalties
for any sin, is loss Of self-respect. The
scorn of society and the mai'ed hand
of the law cannot be felt grlevously
as the shame Of an accusing conscience.
Whosoever does wrong creates within
his own breast a pursuing and aveng-
ing minister Of justice
If we deliberately set to work to
contlavene any of natures laws, We
shall inevitably secure our own de-
served defeat. But, if We study them
to discover their real meaning, WLicl
is always one of ultimate beneticence
and progress, and if We cherish the
same aims, applying to them methods
appropriate to ourselves. we shall be
at one with her ard assist her in the
elimination of evil without sacrificing
any Of the warm and kindly senti-
ments that honor our humanity.
People dread to be thought singular
they have not faith enough in them
selves to be simple and original, CT
they want TO be received with favor
into certain circles. and therefore has
ten to adopt whatever amusements
are current among them, even to the
exclusion of those which alc adapted
to their own special needs. When, for
example, people pay continued rounds
OF ceremonious cal. give large and
expensive parties and attend crowded
hanque's and balls and then complain
of the utter weariness OF 1t al, we feel
less pity for their fail que han con-
tempt for their voluntary thra'dom.
81 suppose, said the grocery sales
man, ''that business is better, even in
IA small country town like this, than it
was few years ago, during the hard
times
well, nc: can say it is" replied
the Hometown grocer. an the hard
times tie people hadn't any money to
speak of, and equently didn't buy
anything; but when times lcosened up
a little why you know, credit got bet
ter, and then they Dough. all they
want d, but insisted or getting il on