Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — WITH THE SAGES [ARTICLE]

WITH THE SAGES

Chance and accident are only aliases fdt ignorance.—Huxley. The great man is he who does not l«e his child’s heart.—Mencius. Good, the more communicated, the more abundant grows.—Milton. We conquer our fate when we submit to it cheerfully.—Horace SmithIt is another’s fault If he be ungrateful ; but it is mine* if I do not give. —Seneca. Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.— Quarles. We may judge of whether we are going upward or not by the views we are getting. “Do your thoughts range more widely from year to year, and is your life filled with more and higher interests?” —Selected. There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright t friendship with the sincere, and friendship with the man of observation ; these are advantageous. Friendship with the insinuatingly soft, and friendship with the glib-tongued; these are injurious—Confucius.