Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1910 — BORROWINGS. [ARTICLE]

BORROWINGS.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.— Alphonse Karr. And what is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.— Emerson. For he that wrongs his friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice In his breast. Himself the judge and jury and himself The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. —Tennyson. "You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you may prevent them from stopping to build their nests there.” The responsibility pf tolerance Iles with those who have wider vision.— George Eliot.