Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — WITH THE SAGES. [ARTICLE]

WITH THE SAGES.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.—Coleridge. -” Carve your name on hearts, rather than marble. —FI aim an. Talk not df a good life, but let thy good life talk.—Faber. Measure thy mind’s height by the shade It casts.—Browning. Have the courage to dare to be true at all times,— Campbell. It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. —Couture. What ought not to be done do not even think of doing.—Epictetus. ■- n IJM ’ * The lie of an action is greater than the lie of a word. —F. M. Crawford. All earthly joys go less to the one Joy of doing kindnesses.—Herbert. Truth is like a torch, the more it Is shaken the more it shines. —Watts. The acts of faith and mercy are sure to repay the merciful. —Raikes. Always do your best, and every time you will do better. —Sir J. Reynolds. Force is at best a fearful thing; even In a righteous cause.—Schiller. The whole science of life —to avoid sowing the seeds of regret.—Raskin. Better be a nettle In the side of your friend than his echo.—Emerson. Eveoy one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.—Jeremy Collier. That is an honorable work which is done well as we can do it. —Faraday. Stay hot until you are told of opportunities to do good; inquire after them. —Smiles. Our happiness is a sacred deposit for which we must give account. — Mrs. Hemans.