The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-01-31
Thoughts For The Thoughtful.
Healthy minds let by-gones be.
Purity is the best patriotism.

Healthy minds let by-gones be.
Purity is the best patriotism.
The moral sense grows but by exercise.
God takes his own part in each thing he
made.
Prudent, cautious, self control is wis
dom root.
Be sure that God ne er dooms to waste
the strength he deigns imparts.
If success is rare and slow, everybody
knows how quick and easy ruin is.
Selfshness is poverty; it is the most ut
ter destitution of human being.
If mans character is to be abused
there's nobody like relation to do the
business.
The affection between parents and chill
dren, or between lovers and friends is
deepened by demonstration.
Happiness is to the heart what sunlight
is to the body, and he who shuts out either
is an enemy to society.
The pleasures of dissipation are like
gaudy colors-they attract for moment,
but afterwards they oppress the senses.
Truth is with ourselves it takes no rise
from outward things, whate' you may
believe
Though we travel the world over to find
the beautiful, we must carry it with us or
we find it not
A woman's happiest kingdom is home,
her highest honor the art of ruling it, not
as queen, but wise and mother
o brother wearers of motley! Are there
not moments when one grows sick of grin
ming and tumbling and the jingling of
bells?
From mere sense of consistency, a
prosecutor bound to show that the fallen
man is william; otherwise he, the perse-
cutor, is wretch himself.
All tastes gratifed, all success obtained,
each step won by gratifed pride, every
end attained, leaves in certain natures a
feeling of insufficiency and disappointment.
The habit of blaming others when things
go wrong is an insidious and dangerous
one. Far more is it to the purpose to in
quire within whether the fault, or much
of it, may not lie at home
Benefcence should never be exercised
at random, nor upon irrational impulse,
but should be the outcome and expression
of disposition trained and nourished in
the atmosphere of human friendship.
People in Vanity Fair fasten on to rich
folks quite naturally. Their affections
rush out to meet and welcome them.
Their kind sentiments awaken spontaneous
ly towards the interesting possessors of it.
No matter how obscure the position in
life of an individual, if he can read, he
may at will put himself into the best So
ciety that the world has ever seen. He
thus elevates his rank in the world and
becomes independent.
No one can ever nourish within himself
a generous spirit who refuses to perform
the small offices of generosity that lie con-
tinually in his path. Nor can any one
persist in fulfilling them without expert
encing a gradual response in his own spirit
of goodwill and friendliness.
An imperative duty devolving upon en-
ployers is that they should as far as possi-
Bile know their weak people, be in regular
personal contact with them, and do all
they can to ameliorate their lot. That an
amount adequate to compensate for the
work performed should be given as wages,
is an elementary principle of justice.
Of all paths a man could strike into,
says Carlyle, there is, at any given mo-
ment, best path for every man, thing
which, here and now, it were OF all things
wisest for him to do, which, could he but
be led or driven to do he were then doing
like man, as we phrase it. His sue
cess, in such case, were complete, his fell
city maximum To find this path and
walk in it, is the one thing needful for
him.
There are two kinds Of power in the
world, and much confusion often ensues
from the failure to discriminate between
them. One is internal, the other exter
nal; one is strength, capacity, ability,
knowledge, efficiency; the other is author
ity, supremacy, position, place, control,
rule 1t is the latter kind of power that
men are usually so eager to obtain, quite
oblivious to the fact that unless the former
is stored up within them, to meet the nee
essary demand, the latter is impotent for
good, and, moreover, is frequently a source
of untold injury.
Washington Day By Day.
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