Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — SAGE REFLCETIONS [ARTICLE]

SAGE REFLCETIONS

All true love is founded on esteem. —Buckingham. None preaches better than., the ant, and she says nothing. —Franklin. Of all- commentaries upon the Scriptures, good examples are the best and the liveliest. —Donne. Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places —at the foot of the cross and in the grave.—Colton. In orde? to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. —Mad. Swetchine. Do ye not laugh, oh, listening friends, when men praise those dead whose virtues they discovered not when living? It takes much marble to build the sepulcher. How little of lath and plaster would have repaired the garret! —Bulwer. If envy, like anger, did not bum itself in its own fire, and consume and destroy those persons it possesses before it can destroy those it wishes worst to, it would set the whole world on fire, and leave the most excellent persons the most miserable. Before undertaking any design weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt. If the glory outweigh the danger it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thine own genius cast them. —Quarles. ■ >