Middletown transcript., 1907-03-02
sHARPs AND FLATS

People generally sneer at thing they
can never acquire.
Did the notion ever strike you to turn
out of the common road?
|, It takes heap better man to live a
theology than it does to make one.
A fanatic is an educated fool.
II Life is too short to fuddle with trash.
Nature has equipped every man for
happiness.
That eternal triangle, man, wife, womanl
Many things we get We wish we had
never seen.
Men who really do things say but little
about it.
| Quit following at somebody else's heels.
You set the gait.
You can see but little when your eyes
are filled with tears.
Take this old world just as it is and try
to make it better.
The misfortunes of the great can never
apologize for the weak.
A secret whispered even to bosom
friend is no longer secret.
Taking the will for the deed don't stick
every time in land deal.
The world is chock full of workers, but
it has got mighty few masters.
Some folks kids are series of mex
cusable mistakes.
Genuine love is the highest form of
unselfshness.
Marriage is monarchIal form of gov
ernment with queen on the throne.
If you've got good horn blow it.
The delusion that is universally chased
woman.
Anoble man sees nobility in everybody.
Plenty Of big jobs nowadays, and
world full of small men to take them.
An attractive woman who has attractive
women friends is as rare as the eidelweiss.
There is vast gulf between money and
mammon. The first is right the latter,
wrong.
You're an optomist if you believe in
the fall of man-and that he has fallen
upward.
As ruts prove the usefulness of road,
so convolutions do not prove an idle brain. |
The best reformation in the world is
the sort that begins by reforming our
selves, one by one.
If the dents in the brain are an evil |
dence of its use, then some mems brains |
must be ss smooth as glass.
Dig for your coin, and dig hard-that's |
alright. But be the master Of your dol
lar, and not its slave.
In that age when wealth becomes the |
standard measure for greatness, then |
money will be world-power.
Do your part to lift the whole race
notch in the scale Of humanity-then,
your heaven will take care of itself.
A genius is one who knows just how to |
converse and increase the heat that gem
crates in the stolen fires of intellect.
Some folks have brains that operate
just like sitter in a foor-milI-every-
thing good goes on through and she trash |
stays behind.
Because you've never been in Jail is no |
sign you are as good as John Bunyan.
A great many will court the friendship |
Of an angel just to get to borrow his wings.
You can tell seIf-made man the mo-
ment he hits French menu card in an |
American cafe.
] often wonder about these professional
loungers on our streets when there is so |
much manless land for the landless man.
That Thaw-W -White-Nesbit-et al. testi-
mony brings to us the muffled clank Of |
chains that bind restless skeletons in |
many another home.
Hold no ideas that are not possibilities. |
Otherwise, you are a dreamer-a builder |
Of castles in the air.
Gold mines would never haye been dis
covered had it not been that the rich
veins crop ont" Speaking about
man, real worth crops out, too.
l know some saints who pray and be.
lieve in his blessed keeping, and then
MAKE dive for the storm.cellar every
time the clouds have a little fracas.
If you want to have smooth sailing,
just grant that every fellow totes as much
gray matter in his pate as you do, and |
your hearts are just about the same size.
If you ever get even with the fellow |
that does you wrong you will have to
drop to his level. Revenge is sweet, but
if fellow has to do that, revenge costs
| too much.
You have but to 90 a-slumming TO find |
that underworld whose creed is a wall |
and whose life is hell. They are just be-
yond your door. The great Church spire |
casts its shadow over them.
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represents the triumphs Of mind over
morals"
Let your friends be numberless. But
that inner circle-be wary Of It's growth. |
The day Napoleon reduced it to three
personages be paved bis way to the crown.
This country will continue to have her
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Cripple Creeks, her California gulshes,
and her Klondikes, but after all the
American farm will always be the foun-
tain source of American wealth.
Desire no greater mark as the sign you
ever lived, save that which appears in
the works that follow after you are dead.
They linger like the after-glow Of sun
long since gore down.
You can't see beyond yourself When
the world looks al. jagged and twisted to
you, you need 70 be run Ia for repairs.
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