Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-04-27
Sentiment, Wit and Elumor.

Kings bank, and the first mile travelled on @
journey, are all very important things -
sss5ey make beginning, and thereby hope;
! promise, a pledge, an assurance that you
IRE il earnest with what you have uIider-
taken. How many a'poos, idle, hesitatsng5
erring outcast is now creeping and crawling
MS way through the world, who might
have held up his head and prospered, if in
stead of putting off his resolutions Of
and industry, he had only made
a beginning. A beginning, and good be-
ginning, too, is necessary:
Had not the base been lasd by builders wise,
The pyramids had never reached the skies.
GE WHERE lies the wisdom of that re-
venge which recoils upon oneself? Instead
of getting the better of your enemy, by of
tending your Maker in revenging an injury,
you give your enemy the advantage in
seeing you punished. If you would have
the whole advantage, forgive; and then,
II he does not repent, the whole punishmert
will fall upon him.
MENTAL pleasures never cloy unlike
those of the body, they are increased by re-
petition, approved by reason and strength
ened by enjoyment. A few books, together
with experience, are better than many
The greatest men have not been book-men.
Washington was notAa great reader. Itis
from a few practical truths, experience and
reflection that much knowledge is to be
gained
A MAN that has nothing to do, generally
does wrong. If you would keep out Of
deviltry, therefore, have as little to do with
idleness as possible. Give boy holiday,
and in less than an hour brindIe dog will
have him by the corduroys for robhiHg an
apple orchard.
HEARTs.-We see it stated by some
wiseacro that the heart of a man weighs
about nine ounces, and that of a woman
eight. As age increases, mans heart
grows heavier, and woman's lighter after
thirty. Some young girls lose theirs at
sixteen.
WANT and affluence are both injurious
to morals. Excessive wealth converts men
into roues, while sudden poverty is apt to
make them purloiners Of bacon.
IRREsIsTIBLE.-A good natured girl
with eyes filled to the brim with love and
Prussian blue. If you don't want palpi-
tatlon OF the heart, keep away from "sieh."
THE happiness of sensitive souls is
changed by the sight of the slightest suf-
fering, it is the rumpled rose-lcaf of the
sybarate.
A STRANGE genius, in describing lake
in Minnesota, says it is so clear, that by
looking into it you can see them making
tea in China.
HORACE SMITH calls thin lips sixpenny
lips, and says they are indicative of deceit
and close bargaining. We almost believe
him, In all our experience we never net
with a man or woman who lacked plump
ness about the mouth, that was not cold
and calculating, and much more given to
duplicity than to courting or charity.
! Whether Our experience tallies with the
readers is for the reader to say.
| DIFFICULT an editor Of daily
paper to write book He is SO in the
habit of condensing matters, that he finds
| it as difficult to amplify as an ighoramus
does to hold his tongue. Another difficult
/ thing is, to wash clothes and hang them
upon the equinoctial line to dry. No one
ever attempted this feat but Punch's
mother She succeeded
DEFINE nothing, said an Irish witness
to prosecuting attorney, who looked sui
len, confused and silent
Witness, with an air of triumph, well,
if you can't will-'tis a footless stocking
without legp Exit witness. The Court
: in roar-attorney looking blue.
Dow, Jr., the eccentric preacher, in al
| lusion to the exclusion Of many would-be
{ church goers from the sanctuary, by rea-
son of the enormously high pew rents in
t our fashionable churches, enthusiastically
| remarks: There is high duty on the
{ fashionable waters of divine grace, and you
, have to pay penny piece for nibble at
the bread Of life 70 go to church in any
kind of tolerable style, costs heap every
year, and | know very well why majori-
!, ty of you 60 to Beelzebub, because you
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erorbitdnt prices.
DELIcACY-A modest young lady, on
being asked by gentleman why she had a
covering over her dressing bureau repli-
ed that | don't want to see its drawers.
, The same young lady cLothesa bare idea
in the most becoming language.
t A WITTY REPARTEE.-While lettering
: in the Art Union Gallery, day or two
e since we were much amused at an encoun-
i ter of wit between several artists, who were
d discussing and Satirizing each others styles.
!, Two of them, a wood engraver and a ma
:. rine painter, combined to depreciate the
i work of third, portrait painter, who al
e last, provoked beyond forbearance, silepc
# ed the twain, and set the listeners in roar
" by exclaiming:
n "What can you possibly know about thr
le philosophy of the art, who are but the hesO
n ers Of aOood and dra,oers of acater of the
e. profession ?"
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