Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-06 | Page 24 | Wisdom of the Wise

Wisdom of the Wise THE best doctors are Pr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merry man. Swift. TO travel hopefully U a better thing than to arrive; and the true success Is to labor. Stevenson. PUT off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labnr. and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest. juarles. OSI.Y one letter differentiates the word "health" from "wealth." And the things them-t-elves are more closely related. Kvery time you get out In the sunshine sun-shine and leugh and play you are absorbing potential wealth Into your being. Elbert Hubbard. THE fear of death Is iastfnetlTe because In so many past generations gen-erations we have feared It. But how did we come to know wba' death Is ho that we should fear it? The answer is that we do not know what death Is and that this g why we fear K. Samuel Butler DWFlCrLTIES exist to be surmounted. sur-mounted. The great hear' will no more complain of the obstructions obstruc-tions that make success hard than of the iron walls of tho gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpore to give it irresistible irre-sistible force in one direction. A strenuous soul hates cheap successes. suc-cesses. Emerson. 1 RAINS and character rule the D woifd The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said; "Men succeed less by their talents than their character" There were scores of men a hundred hun-dred years aco who had more Intellect In-tellect than Washington. He outlives out-lives and overrides them all by the influence of his character Wendell Wen-dell Phillips. THE root of honesty is an honest Intention, the distinct and deliberate de-liberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are and not as v. e wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand Is worth more than hs weight In gold. What we want things to bo we romp to co them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from h!s point of view Malthle Babcock. 'X'HE happiness of llo may be greatly Increased by small i ourtesles in which there is no parade, whoso voice Is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves them-selves by tender and affectionate looks and li'tle kind acts of attention. atten-tion. Sterne. T OVE is the river of life In this v.nrld Think no- -hat ye know It who stand at the little tinkling r ll. the first small fountain. Not ntll you have gone through the rocky gorges and not lost tho -ir-am; not until yon have gone through the meadow and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets conld ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have eowo to the unfathomable ocean and poured your treasures Into Ks depths no; until then ran you know what loTe is. Henry Ward Beech r. .