Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — SELECTED MISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Benefit your friends, that they mail love you still more dearly;benefit your enemies, that they may become your friends. . ,/ A good temper, like a summer day, is the sweetner of toil and. soother of disquietude. It sheds a brightness over everything. ; e He who is false to the # present duty breaks a thread iu the loom, and will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on yonr past misfortunes,, of which all men have some.—Charles Dickens. Earnestness is the path to immortality, thoughtlessness ihe path to death. Those who are in earnest do not die; those who aie thoughtless are as if dead already. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a bead wind Is better than none. No man eVer worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm / •, Hearts, more or less, Lsuppose, most" of us have, but we keep them eo cioscfcased and padlocked—we weer au outside so hard o dry—that little or none of the love that may be within, escapes to gladden those around us. And so life passes without any of the sweetening to society that comes when affection is not only ielt, but expressed.