Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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Ube 1l nbeg qw 1 hilosophic Sayings from res. ompkins. 9 The most ditiicult thing' tor a man to do is to lose his life in order to iind it. Did Thomas at Chickamauga choose Snod-grass Hill in order to correlate His- tory and Geography? Geography cannot say to History. Keep oi? the grass. The blessing' ofthe mosquito is to keep folks who have nothing' else to do-busy. Heaven is conceived of as having' an abundance ot what we have not. The deed never returns to the doer-the trouble is. it never leaves the doer. Seek ye tirst the Kingdom ot Heaven -and Heading' and Numbers shall be added unto you. A man is lifted by his collar-if it's a Clean one. ' Sufficient unto the day is the Qoocl thereof. How easy it is to be caught on the horns ofa dilemma when there are no horns. The Grand Central Hotel is neither grand nor central. That's just its name. 'ii' Y Cast thy bread upon the waters, and it will return atter many days too. and buttered. We want to leave enough things unset- tled to engage the next generation. An atheist is crazy. that is all. The iool hath said in his heart. 'There is no tiod. ' Man is worth nothing' in this world until he is hitched up to something' other than liimselt. A horse's feet ought to go in the same direction as the horse. Beauty is not only skin-deep. It ex- tends to the bones and digestion as well. Anything' is beautitiilessxvlietliei' it be a cancer. a cyclone. or a corpse. When matches are made for revenue only, they never prove a success. Figures never lie. but liars sometimes tigure. Two half-teachers never make a whole teacher.

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