Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — DIAMONDS UNEARTHED. [ARTICLE]

DIAMONDS UNEARTHED.

Love descends to friendship; friendship never soars to love. Women do not like to remember; men do not like to foresee. One talent, well cultivated, deepened, and enlarged, is worth a hundred shallow faculties. "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Love is the strongest and most arbitrary moral power. Love forgives, but never excuses. If a tree has not blossomed in the spring you will vainly look for fruit on it in the autumn. By their fickleness women escape much misery. Birds save themselves only with their wings. Ho man ever offended his own conscience but, first or last, it was revenged on him for it.— South. No character is complete that has not some mental treasures on which it may draw during the treachery of fortuse. A good man is as a priest and'minister of the gods; devoted to that divinity which hath its dwelling within him. —Marcus. Crowd is no company; men’s faces are but like pictures in a gallery, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. A man seldom shows improvement until he has found himself; and, in this sense, if in no other, the majority of mankind are lost. Hearts have windows. They should be kept open at all times, that the glad sunshine of all that is true and beautiful in this life may enter and abide therein. Pity with its crystal drops is sweetening many a cup of life. And, in return, many a grateful heart is laying on the palm of pity the choicest gems of gratitude. Good resolutions are an honor to every heart that may form them. But that honor takes to itself a new luster and that heart is nobler still when these resolutions are not broken. It is the narrow-edged men—the men of single and intense purpose, who steel their souls against all things else—who accomplish the hard work of the world, and who are everywhere in demand when hard work is to be done.