Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — Some Cynical Remarks. [ARTICLE]

Some Cynical Remarks.

He who fears death loses life. Fear is death to pleasure. The earlier a man has his eyes opened to the realities of life, the sooner he wants to close them. If there be such a thing as the finger of God, it must be connected with the arm of Justice. Everybody has more or less cause to be unhappy. Happy is the man who is too busy to be miserable. He who is always complaining deserves to have good cause to lament. As there is no method of lengthening life, we must find means to shorten time. The pessimist who is also a humorist turns his own shroud into a harlequin’s jacket, and is there a more appropriate mask in this crazy carnival of human Hfe? It happens that Fate not only presses a tup of poison to a lips, but evfen makes him drain it slowly, drop by-drop. The world may forgive us for being weak and foolish, but it never condones our superiority. That is the unpardonable crime. Man should endeavor to correct his faults, but he is a fool if he admits, even toliis friends, that lielias faults. Mtn are always willing to depreciate your good qualifications, and to imitate your bad ones. ... ... . It is not strange that very few men know themselves intimately. Most people like to get rid of disagreeable -acquaintances. , Only*stupid people complain of hard work. Smart people never overwork themselves. It often happens that fear is merely" dread of being afraid. ‘ ‘ There is only one immortal. His name is Death.— Texas Siftings.