Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — Told in a Line or Two. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Line or Two.

Nothing comes out of the mind as it goes in. Schemes are all right so long as they are your own. Most of the things longed for by men have no existence. Did you ever notice how hard it is for two people to get along? Limit the number of your secrets, and you limit the number of your troubles. It is said that a cross, competent woman is the best to live with for a lifetime. It is a very rare man who can’t lay all his misfortunes on Providence or his kin. Every time you do a thing that is worthless, you fulfill the prophecies of those who dislike you. The trouble is that when a man is at the right age to learn, he thinks he knows everything. * A man never knows until after he has married a woman what sacrifices she made in marrying him. It would be easier to love the Lord if men did not know they were loving some one who loves their enemies. How very few people there are who have enough sense to refuse to eat and drink that which they know is not good for them. “1 am willing to admit the depravity of the race, but I am not willing to admit the depravity Of men only.”—Parson Twine. Some men, when they become old, imagine that however busy their acquaintances may be, they are always glad to see them. Sin is like giving a note at a high rate of interest. It is so easy to spend the money you received from the note, and so hard to pay it baclt