Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — Good Words. [ARTICLE]

Good Words.

The grandest of all empires is to rule one’s self. There are few grand who are not also .calm. If you hear that others have spoken ill of you, consider if you have not done the same about many people. How much better to heal an injury than to avenge it! Guard vigorously that social tie which binds man to man, and establishes the rights common to the human race. Life is a pilgrimage, a warfare, and those who climb up and down steep paths and go through dangerous enterprises, are the brave man and the leaders in camp. To rest basely at the cost of others’ labors is to be a coward, safe because despised.