Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1918 — WITH THE SAGES [ARTICLE]

WITH THE SAGES

Pythagoras desired to be called not wise, like those who preceded him, but a lover of wisdom. —Quintilian. Put oil on the wound and it will heal; be meek and the anger of thy brother will abate. —Parsee Bannerjee, 1798. Born for a very brief space oi time we regard this life as an inn which we are soon to quit that it may be ready for the coming guest.—Seneca. Old age is the consummation of life, just as of a play from the fatigue of which we ought to escape, especially when satiety is super-added.—-Acero. The days are ever divine. « They come and go like muffled and veiled figures; but they say nothing; and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.—Emerson. Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify Itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.—Amlel.