Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — APHORISMS. [ARTICLE]

APHORISMS.

He only half dies who leaves an Image of himself in his sons.—Goldoni. Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to heaven.—Francis. He that has never known 111-fortune has never known himself or his virtue. —Mallet The resolution of a moment with some men has been the turning point of infinite issues to the world.—J. C. Geikie. The first virtue is to restrain the tongue. He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent even though he Is in the right—Cato. It is an old proverb that he who aims at the sun, to be sure will not reach it but hi® arrow will fly higher than if he aimed at an object cm a level with himself.—Hawes. Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.—Tryon Edwards. Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, In which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort—Sir H. Davy. A good thought is a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked, then he whole the first to utter it and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the man who ]» the flxst to quote HJofccSoyfie.