Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — Aphorisms. [ARTICLE]

Aphorisms.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.—Seneca. Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.—Disraeli. Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses and dissappointments. but let him have patience and he will see them to their proper figure.—Addison. Calamities that seem insupportable when looked at from a distance lose half their power if met and resisted with fortitude. James -Fenimore Cooper. Cheerfulness, the character of common hope, is, in strong hope, like glimpses of sunshine on a cloudy day. —Joanna Baillie. Conditions are pi asant or grievous to us according to our sensibilities.— Lew Wallace. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. —Pope. To bear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. —.Johnson. Equality is the life of conversation, and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another as he who considers himself below the rest of society.—Steele. It is pretty certain that Corot, the French artist, did not paint more than 700 sketches, and yet there have been 12,000 examples of his work palmed upon a picture-buying public, which has only just begun to learn that auction-catalogued pictures are not always what they pretend to be.