Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1918 — SAYINGS OF WISE MEN [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

Every man is odd. —Shakespeare. Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. —Pope. Bad are those men who speak evil of the good. —H. T. Riley. Nature made every fop to plague his brother, just as one beauty mortifies another. —Pope. Who does the best his circumstance allows does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more. —Young. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. —Carlyle. < Every person Is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest—Gail Hamilton.