Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — GEMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Pardon others often; thyself never.— Publius Syrus. We like to divine others, but do not like to he divined ourselves.—Rochefoucauld. The Good Spirit never antedates. He □ever gives us today what we shall need tomorrow.—Emerson. Do not make excuses to yourself for your failures, but look them squarely In the face and study how to avoid their repetition. * Life is a burden imposed upon you by God. What you make of it, that It will be to you. Take it up bravely, bear it joyfully, lay it down triumphantly.—Gail Hamilton. We dig and toll, we worry and fret, and all the while close over ns bends the infinite wonder and beauty of nature, saying: “Look up, my child! Feel my smile and be glad!”—G. S. Merfiam. God has put it into man’s power not to fall into rehl evils, and the fact that we cannot avoid death shows that it is not a real evil, else God would have put it in our power to avoid it.—Marcus Aurelius. A man who lives entirely to himself becomes at last obnoxious to himself. I believe it is the law of God that self, centeredness ends in self nauseousness. There is no weariness like the weariness of a man who is wearied of himself, and that is the awful Nemesis which follows the selfish life.—J. H. Jowett.