The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-02-23
good on large scale, but that is not a
reason for failing to do it at all.
Fidelity in small things is at The base

good on large scale, but that Is not q
reason for failing to do it at all.
Fidelity in small things is at The base
of every great achievement.
Gather up the fragments that remain
to you, and keep them with scrupulous
care. In good time this little that is
yours will be your consolation.
To despise the remnants is democrat
iZatiOn.
But however simple duty may be,
there is still need of strength to do 1t.
Has drunkenness, inventive as it is
of new drinks, found the means of
quenching thirst? Not at all. 1t might
rather be called the art of making
thirst inextinguishable.
How many men and women have
gone on and on, even to dishonesty, for
the sole reason that they had too many
needs and could not resign themselves
to simple living.
The more simply you live, the more
secure is your future; you are less at
the mercy of surprises.
In adversely you will not act like a
nursing deprived of its bottle and
rattle.
Excess of all kinds has blurred our
senses and poisoned our faculty for
happiness.
1t needs talent or genius to paint;
and to amuse ones self, the faculty of
being happy; whoever possesses it is
amused at slight cost.
The source of all abuses which cen
ter around money lies in lack OF dis
elimination.
1t is not gold that complexities, cor
rupts and debases life, it is our mer-
cenary spirit.
A man whose only motive for action
is his wages, does a bad piece of work;
| what interests him is not the doing, it's
the gold. If it can retrench in pains
without lessening his gains, be assured
that he will do it.
How many hidden virtues may one
not discover-if he knows how to
search-among people of a class he
often ridicules.
He who is nothing worth except on
hours of parade is worth less than
| nothing.
1t is said that walls have ears. They
have also voices, a mute eloquence.
Our home, our table, our dress,
should be the interpreters of our ill.,
tentions.
Poetry is not in things; it is in us.
1t must be impressed on objects from
without, as the sculptor impresses his
dream on the marble.
| Its not given to everyone to possess,
to comprehend Oh to create fine things.
| They say there are no such things as
fairies, or that there are fairies no
longer. They know not what they say.
The original fairies sung of by poets
were found and are still found among
those amiable mortals who knead bread
with energy, mend rents with cheerful
ness. nurse the sick with smiles, put
witchery into a ribbon and genius into
| stew.
The traps pride set for US are too
| ridiculous.
When knowledge is turned into tool
for ambition it destroys itself.
In general but two methods of rear
ing children are practiced: The first is
to bring them UP for ourselves; the
second, to bring them up for them
selves.
| Our social errors, our want OF sim
plicity and kindness, all fall upon the
heads of our children.
.tnd if on the contrary, it would be
necessary for you to economic to give
your children the pleasure of fine
clothes | would that | might dispose
You to reserve your spirit of sacrifice
for better cause.
| How dangerous it is to accustom
your sons and daughters to style OF
living beyond your means and theirs.