Waupaca County Republican

March 17, 1893

 

Grains of Gold

 

 

The sluggard is brother to the beggar.

People who hope are generally people who help.

Revenge is the only debt which is wrong to pay.

A good way to learn to talk is to first learn to listen.

People who have to live alone never find out who they are.

All truth is nonsense to the man who has taken a lie into his heart.

The best medicine for self-conceit is to be well introduced to yourself.

The world is slow to believe that a sin is black as long as it pays well.

There is too much genteel loafing that would like to claim the name of work

People are scarce who are satisfied with their next door neighbor’s religion.

Gratitude is the music of the heart when its chords are swept by kindness.

Resignation is the name of the angel which carries most of our soul’s burden.      

Nothing is so distressing and ominous in the lives of men as their aimlessness.

It is a great deal easier to be contented without riches than it is with them.

Some people pray too much for themselves and not enough for their neighbors.

Throwing stones and bad words at people are both prompted by the same spirit.   

Courtesy doesn’t cost much, but it pays a mighty big interest on the investment.

People who can talk much about themselves to the satisfaction of others are scarce.

There is no other way of obtaining light and intelligence but by the labor of attention.

There are spots on the sun, and yet there are people who expect a ten-year-old boy to be perfect.

The first happiness of man is not to sin at all; the second is to be sensible and sorry for the sin.

There are people who pray, “Thy kingdom come,” who do it on condition that it is to come in their way.

There is a great deal of genuine selfishness going up and down in the world that goes by the name of

religion.