Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1911 — WITH THE SAGES. [ARTICLE]

WITH THE SAGES.

Who can refute a sneer? —William Paley. Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. —Francis Bacon. A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. —Horace Porter. Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.—James Shirley. It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. —Aeschylus. Death is not- the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. —Sophocles. ■ The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him, too. In his work. —Hesiod. Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. —Author unknown. /