Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1897 — GRAINS OF GOLD. [ARTICLE]

GRAINS OF GOLD.

Envy is the dividend of success. Nothing is so trustworthy as love. The smile that helps others has to ba gin iu the heart The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life. Patience is the support of weakness, impatience is the ruin of strength. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress that one can wear in society. Be something that will warm aching hearts. Something that will cheer hopeless lives. While opportunity awaits every man, it does not devote its leisure to blowing a horn. The man who makes a specialty of looking for flies In the ointment finds plenty to do. The man who thinks it right to steal Is a thief, no matter wheiher he rob.anybody or not. Let your light shine in the homo Don’t be turning it down all the time, as you do the gas. The hypocrite holds up his head a little higher every time he sees a good man make a stumbling step. A man of grumbling spirit may eat a very poor dinner from silver plate, while one with a grateful heart may feast upon a crust. A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered: “By not being prevented by shame from asking questions when I was ignorant” Don’t try to see how much you can get, and how little you can do, but consider the day lost on which you have not done something to make somebody glad that you have lived!