Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Aphorisms. [ARTICLE]

Aphorisms.

To rejoice ia another's prosperity is to give contentment to your own lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.—Edwards.. The finest composition of human nature, as well as the finest china, may have flaws in it, though the pattern may be of the highest value—AddisonSo quickly sometimes has the wheel turqed round that many a man has lived to enjoy the benefit of that charity which his own piety projected.— Sterne.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power ,lo make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.—Pope. False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the ,walls it embraces; but true frendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.-Bur-ton. The best rules to form a youngjman, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions and value others that observe it.— Sir St. Temple. Nothing is more silky than than the pleasure some people take in “speaking their mnd V A man of this make will say a rude thing, for the mere pleasure of saying it, when on opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his Mend, or made his fortune—Steele: