Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — GRAINS OF GOLD. [ARTICLE]

GRAINS OF GOLD.

Covet all, lose all. A fat chicken makes a lean will. A MAN in debt is stoned every year. A young man idle, an old man needy. A spur in the head Is worth two in your heel. A bird is known by its note, a man by his talk. The devil is always polite upon first ac jualntance. Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. The rich man’s foolish sayings pass for wise ones. A penny worth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. A GOOD word for a bad one is worth much and costs little. Spiritual dyspepsia Is harder to cure than the other kind. F you want your life to be a success, never take a stand against the truth. A SLUGGARD takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time. THE/devil will never lose hope as long as he has an army of moderate drinkers. Some people seem to stop being religious the moment they can t have their own way. There are plenty of people who are very pleasant while they can have their own way. The devil would soon be on the run If one-talent people would do all the good they could. Not until we have begun to lay up treasure In beaven do we sincerely want to go there. Look the world honestly In the face, with an equal manly sympa.hy for the great and the small It is to be regretted that people who would have done thus and so if they had been there never get there. Esteem cannot be where there is no confidence; and there can be no Confidence where there is no respect. This old world is so full of beauty that a man has to shut his eyes and walk In the night time not to bee it. Humor usually tends towards good nature, and everything that tends toward good nature tends tpwurd good grace. Value the friendship of him who stands by you in the storm; swarms of insects will surround you In the sunshine. Vices have their place in nature, and are employed to make up the warp of our lives, a< poisons are useful for the preservation of our health. » Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those therefore that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend It are desperate. It Is hard to personate and act a part long; for when truth is not at the bottom, nature will always lie endeavoring to return and will pass out and betray herself one time or other. For our own self-culture we can never afford to evade responsibility; If we do, we lessen our influence and weaken our character. In one sense we never can evade It, for In refusing one we take another.