Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1915 — SAID BY THE SAGES [ARTICLE]

SAID BY THE SAGES

As "unkindness has no remedy at law,” let Its avoidance be with you a point of honor. —Hosea Ballou.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. — Seneca. Memory Is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. —Johnson. If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou are dieted for health. —Fuller. Oh, that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks and make but an Interior survey of your good selves. —Shakespeare. The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.-—Mme. Swetchine.

A faithful and true friend is a living treasure, Inestimable when gone. Nothing'is more common than to talk of a friend; nothing more difficult than to find one; nothing more rare than to improve by one as we ought— Anon. : X~ v-< ■