Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — Selected Miscellany. [ARTICLE]

Selected Miscellany.

The qualities we possess never make us so ridiculous as those we pretend to have. No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. *. , r Youth is the tas3el and silkeu flower 6f life; age is the full corn, ripe and solid in the ear. We carry all our neighbors’ crimes in the light and throw all our own over out shoulder. Educatfon begins the! gentleman, but reading, good company And reflection must finish him. No life can be utterly miserable that is heightened by the laughter and love of one little child. Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow and remorse. The praises of others may be of use in t< ac hing us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. Though avarice will preserve a mau from being necessitously poor it generally makes him top poor to be wealthy. He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will see the effect when the weaving of a life time is unraveled. A great many people’s lives are like the blunderbuss that had a rusted load in it. At the discharge tile owner is himself kicked over. It is better to yield a little than quarrel a great deal. The habit of “standing up,” aa..-pspple call it, for their little slights, is quo of most disagreeable apd. undignified in the vgbrld. No ou<£heed hope to rise above his present situation who suffers small things to pass by unimproved, or who neglects, metaphorically speaking, to pick up a pehny because it is not a dollar.

The badland vicious may be boisterously gay,‘and vulgarly humorous, but seldom or, never truly cheerful. Gen? uiue cheerfulness is an almost certain index of a happy inind and a pure, good heart. “A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a deaH calm. * / Health is the bed-plate, on which tbe whole mental machinery must rest and work. If this is cracked, or displaced, all the mechanisip that stands on it will be jarred and'aisturbedi and made ineffective. The victory in a debate lies not in lowering an opponent, but in raising the subject in public estimation. Controversial wisdom lies not in destroying his error; notin Making him ridiculous, so much as in making the audience wise. Cold is not kept olut with a fFor God’s sake!” or “Forftthe prophet’s sake!” but with four seers of cotton.— Ajgan. A learned man without works is a cloud without rain.—Arabic. Worship without laith is a waste of flowers. —Teligu. | He who lives happily through the sfoort rosedays of his youth, and, far away from envy and complaining, strives to be good, still enjoys the days of his youth when tbe winter of life approaches, aud contentment and virtue scatter flowers along his path. Without fear, he can look before and behind.