Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1860 — Hints and Home Thoughts. [ARTICLE]

Hints and Home Thoughts.

The following axioms are worth attentive perusal. Self-reliance is the main spring of thrift and enterprise. Instead of waiting, as Micawber did, for “something to turnup,” exert your own energies, and turn up something yourself. If our self-denial cost us nothing, it would teach us little. A caustic writer says, “The power of sulf-delusion is Heaven’s blessing to fools.” It needs a long head to control a long tongue. If you pride yourself on saying what you like, you will often be mortified by hearing what you don’t like. How many thoughts we waste, how much care and anxiety we expend, in forming plans and emergencies that never occur! Never be “behind time.” I have noticed, said Napoleon, that it is the quarters of hours that decide battles. It is better to buy good counsel cheap than repentance dear. People may tell you of your being unfit for some peculiar occupation in life; but heed them not; whatever honest employment you follow with perseverence and assiduty will be found fit for you, and will be your support in youth, and comfort in age. “A good word is an easy obligation; but hot to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.” In the wirldly struggle, passive endurance is no less useful than active energy. No bad quality or vice carries its appropriate punishnent along with it more surely than heartlessness.— Atheceum.