Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — GOLDEN THOUGHTS. [ARTICLE]

GOLDEN THOUGHTS.

I would rather be right than President —Henry Clay. Us doeth much that doeth a thing well.—Thomas a Kempis. Character is what a ma i is in his Inmost thought—Dr. Newman. Every kindness done to others is a step nearer to the life of Christ.—Dean Stanley. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must forge yourself one —Carter. Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.— William M. Taylor. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.—Carlyle. Oday of rest! How beautiful, how fair. How welcome to the weary and the old! Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! —Longfellow. Make all you can honestly; Save all you can prudently; Give all you can possibly. —Mottoes of John Wesley. No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.— George Eliot You must first desire to become good. That is the first and great end in life. That is what God sent you into the world for.—Charles Kingsley. I know not where His Islands lift Thedr fronded palms in air; Kenly know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. —Whittier. All the jarring notes of life Seem blending in a psalm, And all the angles of Its strife Slow rounding into calm. —Whittier. Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed and much sought after. Like rose-leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid np in the the jar of memory.—Spurgeon. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.—J. H. Nwwman. The fate of the country does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from yosir chamber into the street every morning. —Thoreau. When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.—Harriet Beecher Stowe. When one that was in great anxiety of mind, often wavering between fear and hope, did once , humbly prostrate himself in prayer, and said, “Oh, if I knew that I should persevere!” he presently heard within him an answer f om God, which said, “If thou didst know it, what wouldst thou do? Do what thou wouldst do then, and thou shalt be safe. ” —Thomas a Kempis.