Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-20
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i ings.
A mans own good breeding is the best Sc
curity against other peoples ill manners.
! Every one complains of his memory, but
nobody of his judgment
Virtue, writes somebody, springs from in
dustry rather than religion. We care not
how pious man is, let him loaf for a week,
and he will feel the devil in him bigger than
woodchuck
The Boston Post thinks that some folks
hearts would make good lap-stones!
A man who gives his children habit of
industry, provides for them better than by
giving them stock of money.
A friend of ours says he would have re-
maned single, but he couldn't afford it
What it cost him for "gals and ice-cream,"
is more than he now pays to bring up wife
and eight children. Bachelors should think
of this.
! To improve man is to liberalize and en-
large him in thought, feeling, and purpose.
! Hasty words often rankle the wound which
injury gives; but soft words assuage it, for
giving cures it, and forgetting takes away
the scar.
( SMART SAYINGs.-To kiss ladies' hands as
some do, is like little boys, who, after eating
the apple, fall to the paring-out of love they
have to the apple.
J Old sciences are unravelled like old stock
ings by beginning at the foot.
Education begins the genteman-but rea-
ding, good company, and reflection, must fin
ish him.
Old friends are best King James used to
call for his old shoes; they were easiest for
his feet.
Never build after you are five and forty;
have five years income before you lay brick;
and always calculate the expense at double
the estimate.
Some men are only great, because their
associates are little.
The balls of sight are so formed, that one
mans eyes are spectacles to another to read
his heart with.
He who marries wife and he who goes to
war must necessarily submit to everything
that may happen.
LovE.-A sweet contagion, which attacks
people with great severity between eighteen
and twenty-five. Its premonitory symptoms
are sghs, ruffied shirts, ringlets bears grease,
and whiskers. 1t feeds on moonlight and
flutes, and looks with horror on "biled pork"
or baked beans.
FRIENDSHIP often ends in love; but love, in
riendship-never.-LG
MAxIMs FOR LovERs.-Love takes deepest
root in the steadiest mind.
1t is degree of impurity in woman, to love
a sensual man.
True love is ever accompanied with fear
and reverence.
Platonic love is platonc nonsense.
The proof of true love is respect, not free
dom.
But few frst-impressons ought to be trust
ed or encouraged in love.
A lady can have but small hopes of a lover,
over whom his own worthy relations can have
no influence.
The more ardent man is while lover,
the more Indifferent he will, probably, be
when husband.
Pride and vanity are often the source of
love-
Respectful love inspires noble actions
Old .Norel
Girls who saint" handsome, hate those who
are-while those who are handsome, hate one
another Which class has the best time of
it
CHARITY,-Every good act, says Mahomet,
is charity. Your smiling in your brothers
face is charity; an exhortation of your fellow
men TO virtuous deeds is equal to aims giving;
your putting a wanderer in the right road is
charity; your removing stones, and thorns,
and other distractions from the road is char
ity; your giving water to the thirsty is char
ity. A mans true wealth hereafter is the
good he docs in this world to his fellow men.
When he dies, people will say, "What prop
erty has he left behind him ?' But the an
gels who examine him in the grave will ask,
" What good deeds hast thou sent before
thee 2"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who think
they atone for long life of extortion, by
leaving a hundred thousand dollars to buy
"moral handkerchief" for the use of the be-
nighted citizens of Timbuctoo. They live by
cheating their fellow w-citizens-while they die