Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1918 — WITH THE SAGES [ARTICLE]

WITH THE SAGES

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.—Raskin. Our distinctions do not lie In the places we occupy; but in the grace and dignity Witir which we fill them. Simms. . > . Reproof, dq a medicine like mercury or opium ; if it b«t improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.—Horace Mann. Positiveness is a most absurd JolWe., If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong* it adds shame tq -yout defeat.- —Sterne. No man can ever be noble who thinks meanly or contemptuously of ,himself, apd no man can ever be noble who. thinks first and only of hlmself.—W. ,H. Dollinger. Alin at perfection in everything, though In most things it is unattgln-. able. However,' they who aim at it, arfd persevere, will come much nearer to it .than those, whose laziness and despondency mqke them give it up as unattainable.-r-Chesterfield. *