Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — SELECTED NISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

SELECTED NISCELLANY.

A man is only as old as he leels. Oh, keep me innocent, make others great A man’s life is in an appendix to his heart. ' > Not work, but worry, makes havoc of health. Men make laws—women make manners. A man can be an honest man in any honest work. Love can gather hope from a marvelous little thing. Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience, When you meet a heart that is true, don’t be afraid to trust it. An obstinate man does not hold opinions; they hold him. One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves. He who wants to do a good deal of good at once will never do any. Some men in marriage seek company rather than a companion. That which is bitter to be endured may be sweet to be remembered. 11l fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Flowers that come from a loved hand are more prized than diamonds. We finish by excusing our faults, but we always blush at our blunders. The world is satisfied with words; few care to dive beneath the surface. The noble passion, true love, contains all the elements of self-sacrifice. When was a man ever weak that the devil did not charge down up n him? Men often persevere in loving those who do not love them; women stop at once. Eternity is long enough to make up for the ills of our brief troubled life here.

The whole of our life depends upon the persons with whom we live familiarly. A womans friendship is, as a rule, the legacy of love or the alms of indifference. Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. Envy is a vice which keeps no holiday, but is always in the wheel, and working its own disquiet. True goodness is like the glowworm, it shines most when no eyes save those of heaven are upon it. We do love beauty at first sight; and we do cease to love it if it is not accompanied by amiable qualities. The dependence of the mind on the senses is seen in the fact that the deaf and dumb are apt to be stupid. Nature has given us two ears and but one tongue, in order that we may repeat but one-half of what we hear. He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. Platonic love is like a march out in time of peace; there is much music and a good deal of dust,but no danger. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Give net reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay ; impetuosity manages all things badly. A new thought may be false; if it is it will pass away. When the new truth hasacome to life it bursts the old husks. >, Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. • The son of an emir had red hair, of which he was ashamed, and wished to dye it, but his father said, "Nay, my son; better so live that fathers shall wish their sons had red hair.” To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus, earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it a savor of omnipotence. Never compare thy condition with those above tnee; but to secure thy content, look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for thy interest, change thy fortune and condition. "Employment so certainly produces cheerfulness,” old Bishop Hall used to say, "that I have known a man to come home in high spirits from a funeral because he had had the management of it.” The conditions of success are these: First, work; second, concentration; third, fitness. Labor is the genius which changes the ugliness of the world into beauty; that turns thy greatest curse imo a blessinp. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm ;it is the real allegory of the luted Orpheus; it moves stones; ic charms brutes, unthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.