The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1836-11-12
Variety.
ARABIC PROVERBS. AND PRoVER-
BIAL EXPRESSIONS.

9. II your friend be honey. do no. eat
him altogether.
s. The provisions suffer when the cat
and the mouse live on good terms
4. Shave your own chin when the beard
Of your son is grown.
5. When you pass through the country
Of the one-cyed, make yourself one-eyed
6. If you are so unhappy as to have
foolish friend. be yourself wise-
:. When there are many captains, the
ship sinks.
S. II you cannot master the whole, yet
do not forsakc the whole.
Q. When things tire you at the head,
take them by tue tail.
10. When you have spoken the word.
j, reigns over you; but while it ia not yet
spoken, you reign over it.
II. When you are IN anvil, have pa
iencc; when you are hammer, beat
straight.
l2. When the counsellor grows rusty.
the counsel will be polished.
f3. Time will teach him that has no tea
cher.
IA. He that passes through the onion,
or ihcir peel. will smell Of them.
Is. He who cannot understand at q
glance will not understand by much exp!e-
nation.
sl6. He who makes himself bran, the
fowls will scrapc him.
II. Sucking becomes bitterness by wea-
ming.
lS. He that sleeps wi.hou, supper, gets
up without debt.
10. Though the will be idle. yet be not
yoa idle.
90 he bulbs minares, and destroys
city.
81. He hss sold The vineyard. and
bought wine-press.
%. The fg.,rcc looking on the 6g tree
will be made fruitful.
%. Three things cvincc the character
Of the mind. books, presents, messengers
"a. Borrowed dresses gire no warmth.
S5. He is warm towards Ills friend only
10 bnrn him.
%. Every man leaps over low wall.
"a. The mother Of the dumb knows tho
language of the dumb.
but The mother Of the murderer docs not
sleep.
%. Need jcvclopcs the mind.
30. The best friends are .hosc who ssi-
Hulaic each other 10 good.
81. The best companions, when you
cit. are good books.
80. The best visits arc the shortest
80. Take The thie! before he takes you.
=. The earpcatcrs have s:nncd, and
the taiio.s arc hung.
So To be wcaned is Difficult, task for
an oauIt.
SO. Ride no, on the saddle Of thy
ncighbor.
81. Silence is often m arswcr.
3s- J like ihc head of dog, better than
fl,c tail Of lion
80. Slipping may happen c'en in July.
40. He pleeks out The tooth Of The dog,
and baFks himself.
al. He was absent two years. und came
back--wiil, ,wo yellow boots.
42. The drunkenness Of youth Is s!ror.
ger than the drunkenness Of winc.
43. Sciences are locks, and inquiry the
kcy 30 them.
A. Take counsel Of him who Is gres.
ter. and him who is less. tl,an yaurseli. |
and then rceur to your own Judgment
Is. The wnrs. kind nf men arc those
Who do not care when mcn sec ,hrm
doing wrong.
46. Close. tac window through which
an ilI-wind enters 10 you.
~. The owner Of the house knows
tcs, what is in Il.
4s. The mules went to ask horns. and
returned without cars.
4s. In sdsersi.y the real principles Of
men appear.
SO. Honor yourself, and you viii be
honarcd, despise yourself. aud you will
be dcspised.
81. An hours patience viii procure
long period Of rest.
One Joe Socabasin. IN Indian Of the
Penobscot tribe not long since. was sues'
for tho SUN Of Gre dollars, by white
msn. before Squire Johnson. On the ,
day OF the trial Joe made his appearance
and rendered the requisite amount Tor
debt aud costs. at the same time he dc.
manded q receipts in full. "Why Joe IL is |!
net usual, IL 10 entirely unnecessary"