Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1882 — CHOICE THOUGHTS. [ARTICLE]

CHOICE THOUGHTS.

Moral decision is a virtue of the Highest order. .Fortitude is the guard and support of other virtues. Strive and encourage a mind and will of your own » Never be persuaded contrary to your better judgment. The heart is the only thing that i> better by being broken. Choose those companions who administer to your improvement. It’s easy finding reasons why othe people should be good natured. Take life fust as God gives it to you, and beautiful as you can.

The noblest deeds are often done where no eye but god’s cau see them. Allowing the blues to master you is a sure way of cutting your life short. The man who sits down on the road to success and waits for a frew ride is sure to be left. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebblejwithout. Beware, oh, beware of the mother of a man who despises women. Wounds of the heart are the only ones that are heakd by opening. Jealousy is the sentiment of property ; put envy is the instinct of theft. In love women go to the length of folly and men to the extreme of silliness. Kisses by people who no longer love each other u are merely collated yawns. Oast your net in the right water, and they may take fish while you are sleeping. To have the reputation of a bitter tongue gets you enemies and invitations to dinner. Experience is a trophy composed of all the weapons that we have been wounded with. In memory’s mellowed light we behold not the thorns, we see only the beautiful flowers. Platonic love is like a march out in time of peace; there is much music and a of dust,but no danger. It is an admitted fact that men who use their brains Jive longer, other things being equal, than the men who do not.

Weakness is the egotism of goodness. When one hope departs the other hopes gather closer together to hide the gap it nas left. An ambitious man whom you can serve will often aid you to rise, but not higher than his Knee; otherwise you might be standing in his light. Marriage resembles a village fair, where every one endeavors to trade off his lame horse or his vicious cow for a handsome, sound and useful critter. A French husband follows his wife through life as a dog his master on a Journey, making a thousand capers and darts around her from time to time, and sticking close to her at the close of day. One of life’s hardest lessons from the cradle to the grave is waiting. We send our ships but but cannot patiently await their return. No persons, be they in ever so humble circumstances,but what have some quality of mind that entitles them to an equality with their fellow beings. A man who is unable to discover any errors or mistakes in the opinions he foimerly held, is not likely to advance very fast in the acquirm ent of knowledge.

To succeed in any of lifes endeavors, be our talents what they may, we require perseverance, decision and tenacity of will to reach the full measure of success. From the very hovels of poverty and destitution, we may, with selfreliance wreathe about our heads laurels of undying fame and receive as a reward lor our labors a crown of eternal life. He understands liberty aright who makes his own depend upon that of others. True liberty does not permit the enfrauchlsment of one’s self through the enslavement of some one else. I love clamor when there is an abuse. The alarm-bell disturbs the inhabitants, but saves them from being burnt in their beds.—Burke. Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.—Sydney Smith. If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be, now put foundations under them.—Thoreau. The brain is a very hungry thing indeed, and he who posesses it must constantly feed ic by reading or thinking, or it will shrivel or fall asleep. “Only here and thene has Christian life been carved out of the world’s life, and thrown into a form of art which reveals its transcendent virtue and beauty.” “A woman is a curus bein’; she cries when she’s tiCKled, an’ she laughs when she is mad.” “Humau nature is very prevalent among women, and especially among maids of all work.”