Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1882 — WORDS OF WISE MEN. [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISE MEN.

babe in a house is a well spring of is .worth doing at all is worth BismeZi. Nothing ever achieved without — Emerson. Who can all sense of others' tils escape, 1b but a brute, at best, in human shape. - Juvenal. You miiy depend upon it that he is a goodsimm w)i<vse friends are all good.— Larater. We should look nt the lives of all as at atotrror, and take from others an example for ourselves. — Terence. (JJt is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I sec no fault co tn mi t ted that I nave not committed myself.— Goethe. We should do by our cunning as wo do by our courage—alwavs have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.— Greville. Neithke a borrower, nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both Itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. —Shakspeare. Life, believe, Is not a dream ' So dark as sages say; Oft a lit tic morning rain Fortells a pleasant day. —Charlotte Bronte. A MAN should never bo ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. — Pope. There are many men who appear to be struggling against. poverty, and yet are happy; but yet more, who, although abounding in health, are miserable. — Tacitus. Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenuous and honest, and in those things which have a latitude, use your own liberty.— Jeremy Taylor. Men of great parts arc often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common rpad by the quickneps of the imagination.— Swift. Though a soldier, intime of peace, is like a chimney in summer, yet what wise man would pluck down his chimney because his almanac tells him ’tis the middle of June.— Tom Brown. Equality is qne of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of apolitical juggler—a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of industry and enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness and indolent stupidity.— Langstaff. O, blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure; ’tis thou who onlargest the rtonl, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee, has little more to wish for! and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with t\ice.*~-Sternc. Every mind seems capable of entertaining a certain quantity of happiness, which no institutions can increase, no circumstances alter, and entirely inder pendent of fortune'. Let any man compare his present fortune w ith the past, and he will; probably, find himself, upon the whole, neither better nor worse than formerly .—-Gold smith.