Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1918 — WITH THE SAGES [ARTICLE]

WITH THE SAGES

There is nothing little, to the really great in spirit.—Dickens. Much of our life is spent in marring our own influence.—George Eliot. Excellence is never granted to a man, but as the result of labor.—Sir Joshua Reynolds. . Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.—Richter. How easily we accept fallacies, when we are looking for an excuse for not doing our full.duty!—Eugene C. Foster. . An inquisitive man is a creature naturally very vacafit of thought itself, and therefore forced to apply ter foreign assistance. —Steele.