Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1918 — WORDS OF WISE MEN [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISE MEN

There is a vast difference between Information and ideas, and the man of information may be useful like a dictionary, but may never be a force in the community. Great men not only know their business, but they usually know that they know it, and are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them. r If you desire not to be too poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not who possesses much, but who covets no more, and he is poor, not who enjoys little, but he who wants tod much. He who thinks that he can find within his own breast that which may enable him to dispense with the whole Sorld'ls much mistaken, but he,wtto links that the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.