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ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are many flowers from which no fruit is produced.—Confucius. success men ascribe to themselves; failure to fortune. —Ivan Panin. Why is it dangerous to sleep in a train?— Because the engine runs over sleepers. Pride constitutes nothing advantageous to the perfection of human character.—Acton. We cannot live without influencing others by what we are, whatever we may seem to be. In warm moments make tour resolution and in cold moments make your resolution good.—Tyndall. jTo me more dear, congcial to ny heart. One native charm, than all the gloss | of art.—Goldsmith. Humility is good when it stimulates.; it is bad when it paralizes the active [ power of a man.—Emerson. Some verv knowing religious rro-| fessors arc like a frosty night in De-j comber, very clear, but very cold. * —R. Watson. ] Laws are like cobwebs, which may | catch small flies, but let wasps and i hornets break through them. —Swift. All sects are different, because they J tome from men; morality is every-; where the same, because it comes from ; God. —Voltaire. ; .. jj Sleep.—The death of each day’s life. ; [sore labour’s bath; balm of hurt I 1 minds; great nature’s second course; j! chief nourisher in life’s feast. j —Shakespeare. ■ I \ ’i Books we know, J Arc a substantial world, both pure and 1 good: 3 Round which with tendrils strong as I flesh and blood, i Our pastime and our happiness will i grow. , , : —Wordsworth. Unreflectivc minds posses thoughts onlv as a jug does water, by containing them. In a disciplined mind knowledge exists like vital force in the physical frame, ready to be directed ;o tongue, or hand, or foot, hither, thither, anywhere, and for any use. desired. — S. Coley. ' The onlv wav to shine, even in this false world, is to be modest and unassuming'. falsehood may be a thick , crust; but, in the course of time ! truth will find a place to breakthrough. Elegance of language may . not be in the power of us all; but j simplicity and straightforwardness are.—Bryant.

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Lake County Press, Issue 2792, 3 July 1919, Page 7

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Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Lake County Press, Issue 2792, 3 July 1919, Page 7

Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Lake County Press, Issue 2792, 3 July 1919, Page 7