Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-01-14

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nobody will believe them.
Light cares speak, great ones are dumb.
Senssa.
Alexander the Great valued learning so
highly, that he used to say, .that he was
more indebted to Aristotle for giving him
knowledge than to his father Philip forlife." !"
The transmutation of metal is a small
affair compared with changing shame to
glory, reyerses to success, sorrow to pleas
ures; yet true wisdom can do all this.
II men praise your efforts, suspect their
Judgment; if they censure you, your own.
To man full Of questions make no an
swer. ....s..., Ftato.
The richest endowments Of the mind are
temperance, prudence and fortitude: pru-
dence is AN universal virtue which enters
into the composition of all the rest, and
where that is not present, fortitude loses its
name and nature.
Death has nothing terrible in it but what
life has made so.
Friendship is str onger than kindred.
Courage consists not in hazarding with
out fear, but in being resoutcly minded in
: Just cause. " So. a.
There is this paradox in pride, it makes
some men ridiculous, but prevents others
from becoming so.
Speech is the gift Of all, hut thought Of
few.r
1t is as hard Cor the good to suspect evil
asit is for the bad to suspect good. Cicero.
Strange protestations of friendship are
sometimes made at conviyial meetings.
Trust not, however, to the friendship which
is .cemented by wine. Those whom BaccAus
unites, are soon separated.
E,ch has his faults, We readily allow, 81
To this decree our dearest friends must bow;
Ones too careless, another's too correct,
And all save our sweet self have some defect.
He must bs a wissnaan himself who is
capable ef distingu shiag one. Diogenes.
ssWhosoever sincerely end eavors to do all
the good he CAM viii probably do much
more than he imagfnes, or will ever know
to the day of Judgment, when the secrets Of
ait hearts shall be made manifest.
He that can please nobody, is not SO
mueh to be pitied as he that nobody can
please.
knowledge is proud that he knows So
much-wisdom is humble that he knows,
no more - [Co,Oper.
A wife who loses her patience, must not
expect to keep her husbands heart.
He who enlarges his hsart restricts his
tongue. s ai r. -5,-i.
The sum of behavior is, toretain mans
own dignity, without iutruding upon the
liberty Of others. ., i. el.ra9 sl. 4s Il
: He who gives for the sake of thanks,
knows not the pleasure Of giving. -:
There is no difference in person or con-
ditfon before God, and Preyidence watch-
es equally over all mankind. Maintsnon.
"A thousand parties of pleasure Go not
leave recollection worth that of one good
Idleness is tho sepulchre of lying man.
ALI other things being transitory and
perishing, true wisdom is to think Of eterni-
~. and to good man the best of philoso-
phies s.@3 "a
Attention to little things is the economy
Of virtue. .1 Ea ras
Avarice has ruined more men than prod
isatity, the blindest thoughtllessness Of ex-
penditure has not destroyed so many for
tunes, as the calculating but Unsuitable lust
Of accumulation. -z.-gs -. ...-
He who respects his friends will seldom be
asloyen. He who respects himself can sell
dom be a strelop. a zss ss-z -.
He is sufficiently well learned, that knows
how to do well, and has power enough to
restrain from evil. Cacero.