Show Noted Thoughts of f Noted Men 1 WHAT comes from the heart goes to the heart Literature is one of the grandest promoters of culture character and happiness The noble thoughts of noted men have always and will always have a mighty influence in the world The heights by great men reached and kept are light-houses light on the shore of lifes life's ocean Every sublime and beautiful ful thought that that- now echoes in the past inspires the poet scholar and scientist of today The numberless thoughts and sayings on the shelves of this century shine in the splendor of enlightenment and advancement The names of Beecher Gladstone Burke Lytt Lytton Pope Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare Byron De Quincey Goldsmith Gray or any other author philosopher or poet inspire the noble of this century with a reverence and love for knowledge The writer has selected a few of the many names and sayings of noble men of this and past centuries centuri 5 Henry Ward Beecher The philo- philo of one century is the common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense of the next II What we call wisdom is the result not the residuum of all the wisdom of past ages Civilization is advancing and holding her own in the realms of Itis It Itis Itis is true that the reflection of the past ages lights the world today Its greatest benefactors were mighty and noble laborers in all ranks and all conditions conditions conditions con con- of life life whose very existence existence existence exist exist- ence thrilled humanity Example and history teach us that knowledge is power that labor leads to wisdom and wisdom makes a Solomon Beecher was a preacher and his mighty sermons and addresses collected in Life Thoughts holds a prominent place in literature Of flowers he said Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into We cannot fail to repeat these words and see their depth of meaning when we behold the rare beauty of the flower band and the harmonious colors reflecting heavens heaven's light in the glory of a summer day Beecher loved nature and natures nature's God and the many heavenly sayings he has given literature stand to enlighten enlighten enlighten en en- lighten the coming ages of the world The Hon W. W E. E Gladstone England's England's England's Eng Eng- lands land's noted statesman orator and author has also given n literature some mighty thoughts For three three-q three quarters of ofa a century he has nobly filled his tion His aim was to do good and make the world better for his having lived in it All his writings are tinged with the nobleness of his motive and purity of ot his thought The sentiment of loyalty and trust and the force of with which the world regards regards regards re re- gards him will never die out Edmund Burke What shadows we weare weare weare are and what shadows we pursue There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and anda a well well directed directed pursuit II The poorest thing that crawls onearth onearth on earth contending to save itself from injustice and oppression is an object respectable in the sight of God and man Anyone who strives strive to be noble to tobe tobe tobe be elevated to be righteous will gain success and everlasting joy The pursuits pursuits pursuits pur pur- suits of life may he be shadows but if labor and example enlightens the ages the shadow will be the reality Dr Johnson II A A man always makes himself greater as he increases his knowledge II Merit and good good- good breeding breeding will make their way everywhere A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge or claret and ignorance Anyone who is weak weak- and unwilling g to labor for knowledge cannot hope to be great Half of the world today take claret and ignorance in preference to knowledge but at the same time there are many who strive for the advancement advancement advance advance- men ment t of the age and their success is beyond dispute Henry W. W Longfellow No more O a how majestically mournful are those words They sound like the roar of the J wind through a forest of pines Look not mournfully into the Past It comes not back again Wisely Improve improve improve im Im- prove the Present It is thine Go Goforth Goforth Goforth forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart Time has a Doomsday-book Doomsday upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names But as often as a anew anew anew new name is written there an old one disappears Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced Humans are weak and perhaps we cannot be a Longfellow Gladstone or ora ora ora a Beecher But can we not have ambition ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion as they did and lead in the race race If we intend to be scholars let us be scholars in the truest sense of the word If we intend to be a t statesman statesman statesman states states- man philosopher author or poet let letus letus letus us be a true one and remember that What is is- worth doing is worth doing well Is Is not Aristotle as renowned for te teaching hing the word wi with th his pen as Alexander for conquering it with his sword Is not one far oftener mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- than the other Do not men hold themselves much more obliged to the learning of the philosopher than to the valor of the warrior He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend a wholesome counsellor a cheerful cheerful cheerful cheer cheer- ful companion an effectual comforter By study by reading by thinking one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself as in all weathers so in all fortunes l' l Knowledge is like the mystic ladder l in the patriarchs patriarch's dream Its base rests on the primeval earth its crest is lost lostin lostin lostin in the shadowy splendor of the emp empy empyrean rean while the great authors who for ages have held the chain of science and philosophy of poesy and erudition are the angels ascending and descending the sacred scale and maintaining maintaining maintaining main main- as it were the communication between man and heaven II |