Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — NUGGETS OF WISDOM. [ARTICLE]

NUGGETS OF WISDOM.

Do {he best you know, that you may I The keynote of Christianity Is power, not words. -g> My strongest feeling in regard to death Is one of curiosity. Ydhfhiay not make a living, but you can make a life. I want a faith that will let me look at all points of the compass. ■ There are advantages in grdwing old. It settles many questions. Would you count your true friends? Fall into misfortune—Napoleon. In all your work watch some master workman; it is a great help and incentive. Teach your children to create. Don’t always give them finished products to enjoy. After all, I would not be a brute, even to be happy; thanks that I was % man, even if it hurts. • What is your life? It is even a vapor. Steam Is a vapor, but, harnessed, it moves the world. The extraordinary rests on the ordinary, and presupposes it. He who is not ordinary cannot* be extraordinary. We are cups to quench God’s thirst, and God takes pleasure in a man-'" when he fulfills the purpose of his being. O these immature instincts and unsure purposes and voiceless longings! How many of them go into any piece of work that is worth the doing! The mountain is composed of atoms, and friendship of trifles.—Tupppr.