Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — SOME CYNICAL REMARKS. [ARTICLE]

SOME CYNICAL REMARKS.

Texas Siftings. . ■ -j-' 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 fin ger of God, it must be eon nec ted 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. —r--The pessimist whois also a humorist turns his own shroud into a har--lequin’s jacket, and there is a more appropriate mask in this crazy carnival of human life. It often happens that Fate not only presses a cup of poison to a man’s lips, but even makes him drain it slowly, drop by drop. The proverb that man proposes but God disposes is false. Man does not propose, and God does not dispose. The world may forgive us for being weak 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 to bis friends, that he has faults. Men are always willing to deprecate your good qualifications, and to imitate your bad ones.