Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1882 — SELECTED MISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Trust and you will not be trusted. Promise to pay is the father of bankruptcy. A wrong cannot be justified by its object. Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. Credit often ruins both debtor and creditor. This world belongs to the energetic. —Emerson. Neven never helps the men who will not act. The great consulting room of a wise man is a library. Sentimen tat variance with f%cts is a bastard flower. The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. What has been unjustly gaiued can not be justly kept. Strive for the best and provide against the worst. Money brings honor, friends, conquests and realms. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. Those are the most honorable who are the most useful. As civilization advances the necessity of law diminishes. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of nonor. Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. No Legislature or Government ever enacted an honest man. No one can read another’s mind; few can read their own. On the day of victory no weariness is felt.—Arabic proverb. What makes life decay is the want of motive.—George Elliot; The first and worst of all friends is to cheat one’s self.—Bailey.

Be graceful if you can, but if you cannot be graceful, be true. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.—Shakspeare. The. high-minded find it easier to grant than|to accept favors. The man who is always right finds every one else always wrong. Who is lavish with promises is apt to be penurious in performances. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. The cheapest advice is that which costs nothing and is worth nothing. Those who are always busy rarely achieve anything; they haven’t time. The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secret but himself. Popularity is not infalibility. Errors exist only while they are popular. Educated men sometimes steal, but education is not an incentiAe to stealing. Nature never moves by jumps, but always in steady and supported advances. Duties and rights are inseparable; one can not be delegated without the other. Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. —Carlyle. Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors than from his virtues. —Longfellow. It is the care of a very great part of man kind to conceal their indigence from the rest. On the margins of celestial streams alone those simples grow which cure the heartache. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men are born to succeed not to fail. The visionary are always dangerous. No man can delude others so easily as he who deludes himself. A man in any station can do his duty, and doing it, can earn his own respect.—Charles Dickens.

In a crowd the average individual is small, and the purpose of parties is to take advantage of this fact. The law cannot supply br&ins for fools, and those who attempt it are the ones who hope to profit by it. Trust men, and they will be true to .you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.—Emerson. When honor comes to you be ready to take it; but reach not to seize it before it is near.—John Boyle O’Reilly., Be prudent, and if you hear some insult or some threat, have the apgearance of not hearing it.—George and. Justice exists independent of the law and no statute ern modify its principels, although it may effect its attainment. No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.—Langford. By utalizing selfishness greater good can often be done than by decry ing it. Self is at the bottom of many good actions in their motives. Those who not knowing us enough, think ill of us, do us .no wrong; they attack not us, bu t the phantom of their own imagination—De la Bruyere.