The mirror., 1916-02-17
GE MS OF THOT
From Our Exchanges

America has furnished to the world the
character of Washington. And if our
American institutions had done nothing
else, that alone would have entitled them
to the respect Of mankind.-W
Thank God! II also-am an American,
Webster.
A turncoat is far more honorable than a
hypocrite.
The man who thinks for himself is wiser
than the bookworm.
Sarcasm is excellent medicine for the
man who knows it all
We all claim to love the truth. but manv
of us only trife with it.
| There is no dime museum engagement
open to the freak of fortune.
Experience is something you acquire
when the opportunity for using it is gone.
Begin the New Year right. Make everv
day better than the last Alexander.
Without confidence there can be no sue
cess; even with it there is often failure,
The only man who has everything he
wants in this world is the one that has no.
thing.
If men had not used their eyes and ears,
books never would have been written.
Time waits for no man. Yet you have
sufficient to prepare yourself to meet
the battles of this life. Therefore don't
wait for time. DO it now.-Lawder.
The man who has nothing to do is not
happy Meader.
MiSfOrtunes we cannot prevent are miti-
gated by resignation.
The finest life lies oft in doing finely
multitude of unromantic things.-Lefroy.
The greatest forces work quietly. The
young person who is going to amount to the
most generation hence is not the one who
is making the most fuss about it now.
be not over anxious to obtain relaxation
or repose. For he who is so, will get nei
r.-E. Hubbard
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and rests, and rests, and rests.
Wisdom consists in knowing how to use
knowledge.
Dry your hay before you pile the stack;
! Mend the hole before you fill the sack.
Beware of ever doing that which you are
likely. sooner or later, to repent of having
done.-E Hubbard.
Do not neglect to rectify an evil because
| it may seem small, for though small at first
it may continue to grow until it over
whelms you.-Fra Elburtus.
Selfshness is another form of ignorance.
Selfish people seek happiness, but nev-
er saw one who obtained it,
Let mans labor be proportioned to his
needs. For he who works beyond his
strength does but add to his cares and dis
appointments. A man should be moderate
even in his efforts.
Originality does not consist in saying
things absolutely new, or which one has
said before; but in expressing in our own
way, from our own mind, what we our
selves have really thought, felt or lived.
-Brownson.
Ignorance is the root of all evil. No man
wants to be wicked, selfish, sick or poor.
The bad man is always, however highly ed
ucated, ignorant of all the changeless laws
of the universe. the laws of cause and ef-
feet
All the diseases of the human race are
the result of lack of human knowledge.
To know first of all how to think, and after
ward how to eat, drink, breathe, bathe
and exercise all are necessary to good
health.
loo many young men start out in life
facing work and responsibility as great
green dragon. This idea is wrong, and no
man will ever know what real happiness is
until he realizes that all work is useful,
honorable and worthy, and that all laziness
and idleness is sinful, degrading and dis
gusting.
It's an honest man that won't touch the
fruit of his neighbor that falls over on his
side of the fence.
The lucky man is one who sees and
grasps his opportunity.