Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-12-30
From the Home Journal.
SPICE ISLANDS,
PASSED IN THE SEA OF READING.

IL Is shame, if any person poorer than
you is more contented than you.
He who promises rashly will break his
promise with the same ease as he made it.
good word is an easy obligation; but
not to speak i'll requires only our silence,
which costs us nothing.
You will be Away reckoned by the world
nearly of the same character with those
whose company you keep.
Accustom yourself to have some employ
menI for every hour you can prudently
snatch from business.
If you ever promise at all, take care, al
least, that il be SO as nobody may suffer by
trusting to you.
You will not anger a man so much by
showing him tha, you hate HIM, as by ex-
pressing contempt of him.
Is ii not better that your friend tell you
your faults privately, than that your enemy
talk Of them publicly
Asking favor by letter, or giving a per-
son time to think of it, is only giving him
an opportunity Of getting off handsomely.
would not answer for the conduct of
the ablest man in the world, if knew that
he was so conceiIed of his own abilities, as
to be above advice.
The worthless. people are most injured
by ISLANDERS as we usually find that to be
the best fruit, which the birds have been
pecking at.
Most women had rather have any of their
good qualities sighted than their beauty
ct that is the most inconsiderable accom-
plishment of a woman of real merit.
Don't give your time TO every superficial
acquaintance; it is besowing what is to
you of inestimable worth, upon one who is
not likely TO be the better for it.
NQ er trust man for the vehemence of
hjs everations, whose bare word you
10 II trust: a knave will make no
IRE OF s~s 'n ".ialsnhood. .h.n Of af-
frming it.
If ever you were dangerously ill, what
fault or folly lay heaviest upon your mind?
Take care 10 root it out, without delay, and
without mercy.
He that envies, makes another mans vir-
tue his vice, and another's happiness his
torment; whereas, he that rejoices at the
prosperity Of another, is partaker of the
same.
1t is easy 10 live we'll among good peo-
pie. But show me the man who can pre-
serve his temper, his wisdom, and his virtue
in spite Of strong temptation and universal
emample.
1t is a folly for men Of merit TO think Of
escaping censure, and a weakness TO be af-
fec,ed with it. Fab. .Marimus, said, he was
greater coward that was afraid of reproach,
than he that fled from his enemies.
II is harder TO avoid censure. than to gain
applause fer this may be done by one great
or wise action in an age but, to escape CEN
sure, man must pass bis whole life, with
out saying or doing one i'll or foolish thing.
There is more true greatness in generous
ly owning fault, aud making proper repa-
| ration for it, than in obstinately defending
a wrong conduct. But quitting your pur-
pose, retreat rather like lion than a cur.
If you act par. truly great, you may ex-
pect that men of mean spirits, who cannot
reach you, will endeavor detraclion, to pull
you down to their level. But pos.eri,y
will do you justice for envy will die with
you.
What man in his right senses, that has
wherewithal to live free, would make him
self slave for superhuiles j.? What does
that man want, who has enough? Or what
is he the better for abundance, that can never
| be satisfied
Cleobulus being asked, why he sought
not TO be advanced TO honor and preferment,
made this reply. so friend, as long as
study and practice humility, know where
! am bu. when shall hunt after digniles
and promotion, am afraid shall lose my
self.0
1t Is observed, that the most censorious
are generally the leas! judicious; who, hav-
ing nothing to recommend themselves, will
be finding fault with others. No man en-
vies the merit of another that has any Of
his own.
There is no time spent more stupidity,
than that which some luxurious people pass
in morning between sleeping and waking.
after nature has been fully gratlied. lie
who Is awake, may be doing somewhat: he
who is asleep, is receiving the refreshmen'
necessary to fit him for action but the hours
spent in doing and slumbering, can hardly
be called existence. ...
The frequent use of the name Of God, or
the devil ; illusions to passages OF Scripture;
mocklng at anything serious or devout
oa,hs, vulgar by-words, can, phrases, affect
ed hard words, when familiar terms will dc
as well; scraps of Latin, Greek or French
quotations from plays, spoken in lheari'