The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-02-23
THE SIMPLE LIFE.
Some Gems Picked Out by an Admirer of
the Famous Book.

1t is the law of nature to fight for
bread for the necessities.
Never has hunger driven man to such
baseness as have envy, avarice, and
thirst for pleasure.
The man who gives himself up entire
ly to the service of his appetites, makes
them grow and multiply SO well they
become stronger than he, and dice
their slave he loses his moral sense, loses
his energy, and becomes incapable of
discovering and practlcing good.
The worth of civilization is the
worth of the man at its center.
But education, like the mass of our
ages inventions, is after all only a tool;
everything depends upon the workman
who uses it.
A good lamp is lamp that gives good
light.
True life is the realization of the high
er virtues-justice, love, truth, liberty,
moral poWer-ln our daily activities,
whatever they may be.
Fame adds 10 more than does length
of day: quality is the thing.
, Good plain sense is not as is often
imagined, the innate possession of the
first chance-cOrner.
Good sense is fund slowly and pain
fully accumulated by the labor of cell
turieS.
Deep-seated condolences is the myster-
iOuS spring that sets in motion the
energy within us. 1t is our nutriment
BY it man lives, much more than by
the bread he eats, and SO everything
that shakes this confidence is evil,
poison not food.
There is no truth for man but in
thoughts that are human.
What a strange attitude is that Of
certain great thinkers of our times ::
They act as if they had created the
world very long ago in their youth, but
decidedly it was mistake, and they
had we'll repented it.
What is truest for man is what best
fortifies him.
If mankind lives by confidence, it
lives also by hope.
No hope, no life. The same power
which brought us into being urges us to
60 up higher.
And that this painful sower called
man, needs like every sower, to count
on the morrow.
Man has neeG of hoping always, and
sometimes against all hope.
Death has everywhere the last word;
but we have hope, and that is why we
live and believe in life.
Since the sun still rules; since the
earth puts forth her blossoms anew;
since the bird builds its nest, and the
mother smiles at her child, let us have
the courage to be men, and commit the
rest to Him who has numbered the
stars.
Love engenders light beneath her
feet, she clarifies, she s:mplifies.
There are conditions of life and social
complications in which the sage, the
thinker and the ignorant are alike un-
able to see clearly.
To him who has preserved enough
honesty, nothing is more repugnant
than the careless irony of an acrobat
of tongue or pen, who tries to dupe
honest and ungenerous men.
To better ones life in the way of
simplicity, one must set a watch on his
life and his pen. Let the word be as
genuine as the thought, as artless, as
valid; think justly, speak frankly.
And the very people who deceive 9TH
ers with the most ability, are in turn
the sincerity of their neighbOrS.
All religions have of necessity fixed
characteristics, and each has its inner
ent qualities or defects.
Away with counterfeiters, specula-
tors, rotten financiers, for they bring
under suspicion even the coin Of the
realm.
Be men; speak the speech of honor,
an hour OF plain dealing does more for
the salvation of the world than years
of duplicity.
1 am of opinion that one cannot say
too well what he has to say.
Nothing SO strong, nothing SO per-
suasive as simplicity.
Be sincere, moderate, simple in the
expressions Of your feelings and opin-
ions, in private and in public alike;
never pass beyond bounds, give out
faithfully what is within you, and
above all, watch!-that is the main
thing.
We hold each other to a certain ex-
tent responsible for our deeds and ex-
ploits.
Sir, we are men before everything.
To succumb under the force of num-
beers or obstacles has never been count
ed disgrace.
Often man has not the means to do