Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1882 — SELECTED MISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Bet not too high a value on your own abilities. “Character lives in a man; reputation outside of him.” People’s intentions can only be decided by their actions. Every man is the son of his own deeds.—Spanish proverbs. When you meet a heart that is true, don’t be afraid to trust it. “A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity, as a dose of arsenic is to life.” He who waits to do a good deal of good at once will never do any. If a dog has money he is called, “Your lordship the dog.”—Kroumir. The noblest and the most useful lives are made up of small acts well done. There are troubles enough in life without adding of our own manufacturing. The whole of our life depends upon the persons with whom we live familiarly. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. There are some wicked people who would be less dangerous if they had no good qualities. Surmises are not facts. Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.—Abraham. ( Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Wounds of the heart are the only ones that are healed by opening. Devote each day to the object then in time, and the evening will find something done. We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Jealousy is the sentiment of property ; but envy is the instinct of theft. In love, women go the length of folly, and men to the extreme of silliness. The soul of the world is God, and its parts are true divinities.—Varro. To give the world a lift everywhere is the intellectual glory of the pulpit. —Prof. Phelps. “That which a man was intended to be is that which unpet verted womanhood demands that he should be.’ A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. There is no sphere of life so narrow or confined that it does not afford opportunities for doing to some one. We cannot conquer fate and necessity, but we can yield to them in such a way as to be greater than if we could. —Hannah More. “There is more of the element of ministry in Longfellow’s ‘Psalm of Life,’ than in all that Byron and Poe ever wrote. Value in character makes value in verse.” “Life is so grand, so full of meaning, * * that despite all its sorrows, I would willingly live it over again.” “A young man rarely gets a bettei vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman’s eyes, forGed himself sits behind them.” Mr. Spurgeon recently prayed: “Lord, give us the earnestness and fire of the early Methodists.” See deep enough, and you see musically, the heart of nature being ever music, if you can only reach it.—Carlyle. There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.—Carlyle. ’Tie greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. —Shakespeare. “Faith draws poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.” “I have learned that to do one’s next duty, is to take a step towards all that is worth possessing.” “A man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living, is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.” “No idle man, however rich he may be, can feel the genuine independence ofhimwhocan earn honestly and manfully hie daily bread.” “All the things we see are types of things we do pot see—visible expressions of the things and thoughts of God.” “Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is but little truth that we get so true as that which we find in fiction.” “His marvellous accomplishments and powers won for him the respect of the great, and bis sympathy with the humble drew to him the hearts of the world.” If it is foolish to give advice too readily, it is also foolish to be too ready iu seeking it. Advice should only be asked from those whose opinions we value, and by whose judgment we are willing to be guided. The flner the nature, the more flaws will it show through the clearness of it. The best things are seldom seen in their best form. The wild grass grows well and strongly one year with another; but the wheat is by reason of its greater nobleness, liable to a bitterer blight.—Ruskin. I