Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — CHOICE SELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

CHOICE SELECTIONS.

The evil cannot brook delay. The good can well aftord to wait. Justice delayed Is justice denied. All men have their imprudent days. What frenzy dictates jealousy believes. .. Indulge' no doijhts—they J are traitors. VrT7>"^ \ Beadty is the mark God sets upon Virtue.' Nothing overcomes passion more than silence. A virtuous man is ever in unison with nature’s works. In every parting there is an image of death. About the only force some people have is the force of habit. The secret of felicity is a judicious interruption of routine. Beware, beware of the mother of the man that despises women! Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. The duly really bitter tears are those which are shed in solitude. ' Idleness is the key of beggary and the root of all evil. Half the ills we hoard in our hearts are ills because hoard them. The rules of a printing establishment are generally made of brass. We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. Wounds of the heart are the only ones that are healed by opening. Jealousy is the sentiment of property, but envy is the instinct of theft. Whatever is obtained by deceit cheats no man as much as the getter. Kisses by people who no longer love each other are merely collated yawns. In love, women go to the length of folly and men to the extreme of silliness., _• ... :

The qualities we possess-never make us so ridiculous as those we pretend to have. A man’s good breeding is the best security against the people’s ill manners. Devote each day to the object then in time, and the evening will find something done. An elevated purpose is a good and ennobling thing, but we cannot begin at the top of it. Nothing will so increase and strengthen the virtues as practice and experience in them. Most of our misery comes from our fearing and disliking things that never happened at all. When you give to others give cheerfully. There is no blessing from an unwilling offering. If anything is possible for man, and is peculiar to him, think that this can be attained by thee. The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by th 6 fiercest flame. Good temper, like a summer day sheds a brightness over every thing! It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude. Reflect upoD your present blessings, of which every man has many—not upon your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Lasting reputashuns are of a slow growth; the man who wakes up famous some morning is very apt. to go to bed some night and sleep it off.— Billings. Be thou like a bird perched upon some fiail twig, which, althouge he feels the branch bendingjbeneath nim, yet loudly sings, knowing full well that he has wings.—Mme. de Gasperin. Though the good may have little wealth, yet it is useful to all, like the water of a well. The selfish may have much wealth, but like the water of the sea, it quenches the thirst of none. —Buddhist Scripture. Young men talk of trusting to the spur of the occasion. But trust is vain. Occasion cannot make spurs. If you exj ect to wear spurs you must win them. If you wish to us 9 them you must buckle them to your heels before you go into the fight.—James A. Garfield. If you would keep a hook and daily put down the things that worry you and see what Incomes of them they would be of benefit to you. It is not well to give up the battle after a single defeat. Some people are totally discouraged by a disappointriient, while others are so enraged by it that their strength and persistency are doubled.