Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — Spare Moments. [ARTICLE]

Spare Moments.

The fined composition of human nature, a* well as the fined china, may have flaws in it, though the pattern may be of the highest value. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is “using a vast fcce to lift a feather;” as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one’s self out of the confidence of his fellow-men. He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well: for as a whole city is infected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so is it likewise reformed bv their moderation.