Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — WORDS OF WISE MEN [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISE MEN

We build little walls of wisdom t« keep away the vast unknown, wherein we only drivel. ", If people are determined to live and die slaves to custom, they should, see that it la at least a good one. There Is nothing that weighs more heavily upon a right-minded man than the slow progress he makes in over* coming his faults. There Is a certain even-handed justice in Time —for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, . and In its place he brings tranquility and repose. , There Is nd sense of ease like the ease felt on those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labor of choice, and where the outer world seemed only an extension of our own personality. It cannot be a right Ideal of a business of life which does not lay upon a man the moral duty that he abstain from every' infraction of the law of truth, from every Impulse and prompting of greed, from all unworthy and mean subserviency for the sake of profit. '