Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — MORE OR LESS WISE [ARTICLE]

MORE OR LESS WISE

Eyes will hot see when the heart wishes them to be blind. Desire conceals truth, as darkness does the earth. —Seneca. The flowering of; civilization is the finished man —the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power—the gentleman. —Emerson. All my experience of the world teaches me that in 99 cases out of 100 the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. —Mrs. Jamesons Many have been ruined by y their fortunes and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great'have become little, and the little great.—Zimmermann.