Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — Wise Words. [ARTICLE]

Wise Words.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. Experience holds the first mortgage on human wisdom. In the meanest hut is a romance, if you know the hearts there. It is always safer to displease a few than to try to satisfy many. Alittle real earnestness in our work would accomplish wonders, but, alas I we are seldom in earnest. A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire—not too near, lest he burn, not too far, lest he freeze. i . Just thoughts and modest expectations are easily satisfied. If we don't overrate our pretensipns all will be well. Surely the church is a place where one day’s truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.