Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. [ARTICLE]

THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS.

The conscience has to do, not "with fitness or expediency, or advantage, but with right and wrong. Hope without action is a broken staff. We should always hope for things that are possible and probable. A single man who has health and brains, and can’t find a livelihood in the world, doesn’t deserve to stay there. Don’t be afraid of wild boys and girls; they often grow up to be the best men and women. Wildness is not viciousness. It is always good to know, if only in passing, a charming human being; it refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatever it may be, an early example of uprightness and a childish training in honor. It is tasteless to seek admiration by adorning our house or person; let us adorn our characters by the charms of kindness and amiability. Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is that you will be so prepared, so forewarned and forearmed, that all shallow observers will call you lucky. The head truly enlightened will presently have a wonderful influence pudfying the heart, and the heart really affected with goodness will conduce to the directing of the head.