The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-07-07
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The art of making friends lies in
knowing how to be a friend.
A calm superiority of mind finds lit
tie difficulty in attaining its highest
ends.
Silence holds a power, magnitude,
that silver-tongued speech is unable
to convey.
Nature makes her own aristocracy
To the humble born she often be-
queaths her rarest treasures and high
est graces.
The true culture of self lies in sup
planting self with the beauties of the
soul.
All noble thoughts are prayers.-vic-
tor Hugo.
We cannot eat fruit whilst the tree
is in bloom.
The greatest aim? To form ideals
and live up to them.
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The soul has no secret which the CON
duct cannot reveal.
Good fortune sometimes comes to us
in very shabby-Iooking carriage.
He who says there is no such thing
as an honest man is himself knave.
Not education, but character is
mans greatest need and mans great
est safeguard Spencer.
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One of the hardest weeds to uproot
is selfishness. Nothing can do this but
the expulsive power of a new afflic-
ton"
Those who love to shine in conversa-
ton have a dread of the commonplace,
truth is often very common
place.
True wisdom lies not in perusing
books; nor wooing nature in her shady
hooks; but in the study of man as man
to God looks.
To happily say or do the right thing
in the right time and the right pace
affords evidence of keen instinct and
fine manners.
The Bible is the book of books hold
ng philosophy that can never be i'm
proved on. 1t is the accumulation of
he inspired messages of God, perfect
ing every element of mans nature and
making him divine.
There are two times a woman should
De proud-at the approach of familiar.
ty, and in keeping silence under try
ng provocatiOns, thereby not suffering
Ter dignity to lose itself in petulant, |
TASTY answer.
Study to be quiet" that is, study |
odiSmiss all hustle and worry out of |
our inward life. Study also to do.your |
,Wn business of other people. A great !
Ieal of 'creaturely activity" is eXpend- |
d IN trying to do other peoples bust
less. 1t is often very hard to sit still /
When we see our friends, according to |
'ur ideas. mismanaging matters and /
making such dreadful bIunders. But
he divine order, as it is also the best
uman order as well, is for each one
I us to do our own business, and to
efrafn from meddling with the bust
less of anyone else.
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1t is idle to talk of suffering as if it
we're the privilege of a few select lives
My. Suffering and its culture, like
Oy and its culture, are within the lot
+ every man. He lives unworthily
hose nature never clashes against the
Dwer natures and suffers pain. But
lere pain is not education, does not
ring growth. 1t is the suffering of
rilling submission to God and of self
acrificing love for fellowmen that
often and spiritualizes and blesses IS.
n all such suffering let us rejoice We
hall not need to seek; opportunities
nough, for it will meet US everywhere.
nd may God help us everywhere %
nd the treasures they containI
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Happiness is the rule of healthy ex-
tence; pain and misery are it's excep-
Onal conditions. Nor is pain alto
ether an evil: it is rather a saIutary
arning. 1t tells that we have trans
ressed some rule, violated some law,
sobeyed some physical obligation. 1t
a monitor which warns us to amend
II state of living. 1t virtually says:
Return to nature, observe her laws,
I'D be restored to happiness. Thus,
lradoXical though it may seem, pain
one of the conditions of the physical !
ell-being of man: as death, according {
DIR. Thomas Brown, is one of the
,nditions of the enjoyment of life. {
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