Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — Wise Words. [ARTICLE]

Wise Words.

Whoever conquers indolence can conquer most things. Love is lowliness; on the weddingring sparkles no jewel.— Richter. Be graceful if you can ; but if you can’t be graceful, bo true.— Dr. Armitage. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.— Goethe. It is extraordinary how long a man may look among the crowd without discovering the face of a friend.— Dickens. Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since fiction can only please us by its resemblances to it.—Shaftesbury. “ The music at a marriage procession,” says Heine, “always reminds me of soldiers entering upon a battle.” If, of all those whom you help, the majority abuse your generosity, is not the gratitude of the few really benefited sufficient reward and stimulus to continue the good work?— Golden Rule. Teaching men morals is as though I had a clock that would not go, and I turned round one of the cog-whecls. But faith takes the key and winds up the mainspring, and the whole thing runs on readily.— Spurgeon. Nature lias placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters—pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall do. On •the one hand the standard of right and wrong; on the other the chain of causes and effects are fastened to their throne. — Ben'ham.