Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — Maxims for Everyday Life. [ARTICLE]

Maxims for Everyday Life.

Too much importance is self-im-portance. Yon may cheat others now, but yourself also in the long run. The greatest honor that man can render to God is to be good to himself. What man is deficient of in sense he usually makes up in mulishness. Nature is frank and will allow no man to abuse himself without giving him a hint of it. Remember this: However small you consider your possessions there is some one who envies you them. There is no luck, but there is such a thing as hard work and knowledge how to make it answer for what others call “luck. ” The only talent that man has succeeded in handing down to his son is the ability to judge good whisky. Too many young men believe “the world owes every man a living,” and that it requires no effort on man’s part to make the collection. No matter how low down a man may get, there is not one in a hundred but will prove true to a small trust if his pride be strengthened by your seeming faith in him. Much of the world is prejudiced against facts, because facts stick to the text and don’t go out of the way to concoct a pa'atable medium for the world’s own genteel taste and wise opinions. Simply believing the truths of religion doesn’t make you religious; you may appreciate right and yet not be right; weeping over martyrs is not as heroic as having had your lamp snuffed at the stake. One breach of faith will always be remembered, no matter how loyal your subsequent life may be. People may imagine that they trust you, yet all the time they have an eye to the fospier break.