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Day
1
Month
January
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tbe more yon sa, the lesa people romera ber. Simplioity of oharaoter is the natural esult of profound thoughts. The plant of happiness cannot thrive without the air of cheerf ulnees. The mnocence o? the intention abates othing of the mischief of the example. Make friends with your creditors, if ou can but never make a creditor of ■our tr.end. The harvest gathered in the fields of ie past is to be brought home for use of ie present. Muny people mistake stubbornness for bravery.meanness for economy, and vileness for wit. Fromises made in time of affliction require a better memory than people oommonly possess. The misery of ïllness is nearly manifest in high life as in the rags and fllth of extreme proverty. Deprive the people of the means of proper subsistance, anJ you eulave and destroy the nation. Oheerfulness is an exeelleut wearing quality. It has been called the bnght weather of the heart. We should be as cheerful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing il 1. For a gold currency the people are being encouragcd to eacrifice their goods, their liberties, their chüdren and themselve8. Gold and silver would be better as mere medals of commerce than as fluctuating legal tenders in the hands of specu la tors. Give no quarter to those vices "vhich are of thine inward fatuil y, and having a root in temper plead a right and proprie tary in thee. To avenge one's self is to confesa that one has been wouuded but it is not the part of a noble mind to be wounded by an in jury. Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rioh? He that is content. Those that would be safe have need to be suspioious of the temper. The garrison that sounds a parley is not far from being surrendered. He who exDresses in his conduct tioe and ckarity, accomplishea the most beautiful works, the good man is, in hit) viay, the greatest of all artista. Public opinión is a weak tyrant oompared with our own private opinión: what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicatea, 1 1 is fate. It does us (jood to admire what is good and beautiful; but it does us infinitely more good to love it. We grow like what we admire, but we become one with what we love. The foundation of good labor in any spheie is a good man, and all that is done to give breadth, depth and fullness to him will react in ultímate improvement upon n in wok. Knowledtre must Ie made vital in the heart before it ca'j blossom into oonduct, and the continual passing of right feeling into right action alone can form a worthy character. Men who complain most loudly about the inequalities of the human lot are generally a little blind to those great stores of wealth and blessings that no class can monopolize, aud no wealth can buy. The man who will not execute his resolutioos when they are fresh upon him can have no hope f rom them afterwarda; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry of the world, or in the slough of indolence. Lea ves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable, and even dance; j et Ood had made tliem part of the oak; in so doing he has given us a lesson not to deny the stoutheartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. Czar slee ps with his pet dog, and we regard suoh a ciroumstanoe as a fit cause for aotion by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animáis. The poor brute is liable to be blown to piecee by dynamite any night.

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Ann Arbor Democrat