Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1918 — WORDS OF WISE MEN [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISE MEN

The greatest homage we can pay tn truth Is to use it —Emerson. Let a broken man cling to his work. H It saves nothing else it will save him. —Beecher. 1 .• - ■ » The great secret of success in life la for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.—Disraeli. ; The truest style of eloquence, secular or sacred, is practical reasoning animated by strong emotion. —Anon. Things that never happen are often as much realities to us in their effects as those that are accomplished.—Dickens. Eloquence Is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done. — Gough. There are men whose Independence of principle consists in having no principle on which to depend—whose free thinking consists hot in thinking freely, but In being free from thinking, and whose common sense is nothing more than the sense that Is most common.—Dr. M. W. Jacobu.

There Is a broad distinction between character and reputation, for one may be destroyed by slander, while the other can never be harmed save by its possessor. Reputation is In no man’s keeping. You and I cannot determine what other men shall think and say about us. We can only determine what they ought to think of us and say about us, and we can only do this by acting squarely up to our convictions. —Holland—Chicago Post.