Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — GEMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Common Failings are the strongest lessons In mutual forbearance. The smallest perfect achievment is nobler than the grandest failure. It is said with life as as with coflee he who drinks it pure must hot drain 1 it to the drags. > Another knowledge Is hurtful to him who has pot honesty and good nature. How people deceive themselves when i they think those around them do not know their real character. ' f Miseries come unbidden and always stay too long, while joys must be sought for, and when found are apt to < slip away unawares. Education is the one living fountain that must water every part of the social garden, or its beauty withers and fades away. Sin always begins with pleasure and ends bitterness. It is like a oolt which the little bey said was very ! tame in front and very wild behind. How cheap does an elegant carriage and a well-matched pair of horses, with an ignorant man riding, appear by the side of an intelligent man walking. .Sir Humphrey Davy; Life is made up of little things, in which unites and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. » , We should epjov our fortune as we do .? Ur .^f* ltl ?~7 €iyo < y U wb «» good, be patten twhen it Is had and need notbpply violent remedies except fn an extreme tidjpcslty. , The man who is constitutionally incapable of taking advice needs to be ve 3 For, says the proverb: “The truth which we least wish to bear is the one which It Is most to our advantage to know.” ' The Phylloxera has appeared in vineyards near Figueras, Spain.