The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1837-07-14
DON'T BE A TALKER.

OOtlt uN AAhiuSs AuA OAl=AeA AiN 1st'
6eully we gel into, ss we 20 along through
life, is the result q our saying ahai we
might Just as well nDl have sasd. There's
mach wisdOm in thf old maxim, "keep
your mouth shut AID your ears Open"
There rs, rely upon H. ~m..
| do mol know any body in any siIua-
lion or profession IN life. 10 whom this
advice is not applicable. IL Is someiimes
said that the lawyers live by talking;
that talking 10 their trade. and 50 on;
bul The fact is, The lawyers are a. apt 10
talk TOO much As any body. and to suffer
as much by il; 10 spin out long argu-
menl. they necessarily fall into the habit
OF dealing in fancy more Ihsn in facts.
saying things about parties and wit
nesses that do much harm and no good.
and their reputation for candor will
ge, erslly diminish in The same propGr-
uon as that for loquacity increases. TO
hear some men al the bar. you would
suppose that il they were held up by The
feet, tie words would run out Of their
mouths by mere force OF gravity, for
week al q time, without troubling their
brains al all.
A preacher may talk too much. One
OF The best sermons ever delivered in The
world. was the sermon on The mount.
You may read il as is reported, in fifteen
minutes. And though It's style and pow
ers are unspprOschable. Its hreyity might
well be often lmilsled.
Our legislature Talk too much About
nine.ienlhs Of all the speech-making in
congress. aud the legislature is The mere
sounding brass and unkling symbol Of
vanity and egOIlsm. Your really sensi-
bic men, such as Ben. Franklin and
Roger Sherman, never got up unless they
had something 10 say, and always sat
down as soon as they had said IL.
Dur politicians talk too much. II 10
really refreshing, and as uncommon as
il is refreshing, to-hear a sensible man
talk senslbly on this topic for fifteen mi.
nules. But if one listens to the street.
rant of the day, The whole science IL 20.
liucs seems To have become twisted into
q Chinese puzzle, that noboby can find
the beginning or end Of.
When | find neighbour caught IN the
meshss Of a SANDER suit, feel more
sympathy than indignation. He has
probably said, IN moment OF excitement
what his cooler judgement would have
restrained, wha, he does not deliberately
approve himself, and probably is sorry
for. But the thing is said, his pride 10
I ha has in bo A Ia
> pocket for having opened his mouth.
, II he will listne 10 nv short lesson, he
will not be caught in such scrape again.
: Don't talk too much.
4 When hear thai man and his wife
: do not live happily together; read Of an
) application for divorce-am told Of
agreements for separation, or any thing
4 Of tina, kind, | am always suspicious
|; tina, know the cause, tina. | perfectly
/, understand the true secret of the Difficult.
y. Mister is occasionally petulant and
|. huffy, and Madame lectures instead Of
humors him. Each party stands upon
martial bill Of rights, until it ends in q
legal bill of divorce. There is no inter.
I fering in such matters. But | wish
!. could whisper in the ear of every hus-
:, band end every wife too, Don't talk too
! much.
: Some young people have notion that
they can talk each other into matrimony.
|. Ii is mistake: in such delicate matter
as this, the tongue had better be content
a ed with playing subordinate part. The
=. eye can tell better story--.he language
. Of actions will make better impression
" the love tina, grows up in The silent sum
shine which congenial harris reflect upon
y each other, is the heal,hiest and most en-.
y during. The manner will always sink
=; deeper than the language of affeclion.--
- But this is a matter which people are so
y ben, upon managing in their own way,
: that doubt whether my advice will be
. worth the ink and the paper.
- Ii may be singular coneeii, but LII
= tell you what like. 1 like to Look a
" the quiet, coniemplalive, thoughtful ole
~ man, who sits in his arm chair, his chin
= resting between his thumb and finger read
- ing Seneca through pair OF spectacles
~ He likes old fashioned ways, old friends
:" old books. That old man makes nj
=. noise in The world, because he's regula
=. bull. thinker. You give him your opIn
g = abou. men and things. and he hears II
~ tell hun facts aud he examines aud salts
:, ties himself abou, them. Ask his opIn
y, ION, aud 1t you get it. il will come a
:" slow and as cautiously as il he belived
~ 10 be worth something. Aud so II is.-
He goes upon The principle .ha, man
not bound lie speak -bu. fhe dose speaI
Ills he IS bound 10 say exactly what Is RICH
OF and uuul he is sure OF saying ina, he "a,
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