The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-02-07
Thoughts for the Thoughtful.
Te miscreate our own evils.

We miscreate our own evils.
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.
Nothing good is ever lost or wholly for
gotten.
To make habitually new estimate, that
is elevation
4 great heart is as quick to find another
out as the world is slow
To accept the inevitable quietly and
gracefully is the mark of wisdom.
Be sure that God ne er dooms to waste
the strength he deigns impart.
Abide in your purpose as in laws which
it were impious to transgress.
Everything in nature goes by law and
and not luck, and what we sow we reap.
The life of every man is sort of war
fare, long one and full of divers chances.
The heart is our only measure of in
initude The mind tires of greatness; the
heart never
The laws of friendship are austere and
eternal, of one web with the laws of nature
and of morals.
All the great deeds of which we have
record have been done by earnest beliefs
and earnest enth usiasm even though mis-
taken ones
Outward things are not in my power
to will is in my power Where shall |
seek the good and where the evil? With
in me is all that is my own.
We love characters in proportion as they
are impulsiye and spontaneous The less
a man thinks or knows about his virtues,
the better we ike him
Where there are eonfusionS, and grieis,
and fears and unattained pursuits, and
avoidance in vain, and envy and rivalry,
can the way TO happiness lie there ?
II Is not things, but opinions about
things. that trouble mankind When,
therefore. we are worried or troubled or
grieved. never let US blame any other than
ourselves, that Is to say, our opinions.
What curious path fate often times
seems to make for mortal feet, leading
them exactly whittier they have resolved
not to 20, and shutting up against them
those ways which seemed so clear and
plain
The making Of man way comes only
from that quickening of resolve which We
call ambition. Ii Is the spur that makes
man struggle with destiny; it is Heaven 5
own incentive to make purpose great and
achievement greater.
Don make any one feel self conscious
in your presence; it indicates that YOU are
excessively self conscious yourself Be un-
conscious Of yourself, and that will make
people unconscious of themselves when with
YOU. Don expect too much from other
people.
The most solid comfort one can fall back
upon Is the thought that the business OF
one life-the work at home after the
holiday Is done--is to help in some small,
nibbhng way to reduce the SUN Of ignor
anee, degradation and misery on the face
Of the beautiful earth.
There is proyerb which sometimes
seems amazingly true, that Heaven takes
care Of fools aud drunkards Can it be
for their own sakes, or Is 1t out of pity for
those belonging to them, to whom they
serve as sort Of permanent discipline, the
horse hair shirt and mighty seourge which
are supposed TO contribute to the manutae-
ture Of saints ? Aud it is one of the most
MYSTERIOUS lessons Of life that such is often
the case. that out Of the wiekedness Of
one half Of the world Is evolved the noble
self devoteduess Of the other half Why
this should be We know not, and sometimes
ia our ignorance il makes Us very angry;
bat 80 it Is. and we cannot help seeing II,
The highest use Of friend is his friend
ship, and, in some respects, friendly book
Is the very best of friends. Speech is sil-
yer, silence is golden. \ book is bi-
metallic friend it viii give you either silver
speech or colder silence, as you prefer
You sit by your fre-Hght dreaming, with
your friend in your hand Come,
come, you say to him st last, You are
silent, and am weary; talk to me, amuse
me And he answers not your petulance
with reproaeh, but looks with kindly face
into your eyes and talks. At last you are
weary of him. You talk too much,
YOU say. aud turn from him. He stops as
he began, relapses into silence, and breaths
no complaint of your unreasonable mood
\ book is never jealous, never suspicious.
IL asks no attentions 1t never pouts or
sulks because you prefer another book. 1t
never reproaches You with, Il thought
YOU had quite forgotten me-