ITEMS OF INTEREST

Lake County Press, Issue 2789, 12 June 1919, Page 7

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Sloep is Death's youngest biother, and so like him that I never dare trust him without my prayers.- -Sir T. Brown. Death is not a break in existence; it is but an intermediate circumstance, a transition from one form of our finite existence to another.—Baron Humboldt. Let us resolve that nothing which is good in us shall fade away or perish through carelessness or avoidance of .self-discipline and self-control. One of the mistakes that poison home 5 life is the unwillingness to yield in un- ! important trifles. The desire always i to have one's own way is very far from • the way of life. i We ought to regard books as we do i sweetmeats, not only to aim at the i pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the 'j wholesome; not forbidding either, but j approving the latter most.—Plutarch. | Say not, "It matters not what men may think, f But 'tis tho deed avails." As flower to seed, |is deed to thought; and as the seed foretells j Hemlock or rose, thoughts tell tb» j. coming deed." K ---1 nomas Curtis Clark, r j A wounded conscience is a hedgo of ft thorns. But it is better to be held in § the right road with briers and t brambles, than to wander on beds of gnoses in a wrong path which leads to | "destruction.—Thomas Fuller.

Just do a thins, and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success in all enterprises. Talk means discussion, discussion means irritation, irritation means opposition, and opposition means hindrance always, whether you are right or wrong.’ Sarah Grand. It is much easier to think right with Vmt doing right, than to do right without thinking right. Just thoughts may, and woefully often do, fail of producing just deeds,'but just deeds are sure tc beget just thoughts. For when the heart is pure and straight, and there is hardly anything which can mislead tho understanding In matters of immediate personal concernment. But the clearest understanding can do little in straightening a crooked one. You cannot reason or talk an Augean stable into i cleanliness. A single day’s work would i make more progress in such a task than a century’s words. —Hare.