Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — MOSAICS. [ARTICLE]

MOSAICS.

Better bend the neck promptly than to. bruise the forehead. Learning was given to promote good actions, not empty disputes. The truly brave »r* soft of heart and eye*. —Byron. Never put off till to-morrow a laugh tfiat cau be laughed to-day. The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.— Thoreau. So long as thee cannot see thy way clear what to do, do nothing.—A Quaker Friend. The generality of men have, like planets, latent properties which Chance brings to light. Patience! Why, ’ti* the *oul of peace; Of a 1 the virtues ’tis the nearest heaven; It makes men look like gods. When friendship’* spoke, honesty’* understood; For none can be a friend tbat is not good. —Catherine Phillipa. Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer he makes his wings shorter. — Bacon. We never have a good time but that we long for a better one, and generally spoil the second in the attempt to make it better than the first. To each his suffering*; all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another’s pain, Th* unfeeling for his own. Gray. Love is a sentiment so delicate that a lover should never know that he is loved, but by divining it.— Mme. de Satory. The heroic virtue of silence requires for practice the powers of ripening reason. Reason teaches us to be silent, the heart teaches us to speak. A soil which produces nothing can rarely be found; if it is not embellished by flowers, fruit or grain, its surface is covered by rocks and thorns. Thus it is with man; if he is not virtuous, ht becomes full of vice— Boussuet.