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BzJ- Injury must never provoke good
man TO do wong.
pr. 1t were lase fir; 10 raise a conf
dcnce and then deceive II.
rn- Learning is preferable to riches and
virtue TO both.
nz- Maids want nothing hut husbands,
and then they want everything.
NO. Make choice Of your wife by the
cars, not the eyes.
mo-. Make no enemies, he is Insignificant
indeed that can do thee 10 harm.
p@- Make other mems shipwrocks thy
sea marks.
O Many come to bring their clothes to
church rather than themselves.
70 Marriage has many pains, but colib-
acy has no pleasure.
BG- When the pale of ceremony is bro
ken, rudeness and insult soon enter the
breach.
10 Is forgetfulness anything more than
the temporary displacement of one idea by
another
tT. In whatever shape evil comes, we
are apt to exclaim, with Hamlet, Take
any shape but that !" ~
T The exercise Of good affection is as
necessary to happiness as the exercise Of
the body is to health.
10 Ifyou ever promise at all, take care,
al least, that it is so nobody may suffer by
trusting you.
w From the cooperation Of the hcul-
ties, their cultivation increases their power
in geometrical ratio.
Gz- Good humor is the blue sky of the
soul, in which every star of the talent will
shine more clearly.
lT The man has no more excuse who
lays violent hands upon the life of a tree,
than he who strikes woman.
Ba- 1t is better TO be born with a dispo-
silion to see things on the favorable side,
than to an estate Of ten thousand a year.
n@. Somebody says, very beautifully =
As the small planets are nearest the sun,
go are little children nearest 10 God"
B@. As members of the body make one
person, so before God all good men make
on humanity.
pA. When our desires are fulfilled to the
very letter, we always find some mistake
which renders them anything but what we
expected.
Bar Whatever situation in life you ever
wish or propose for yourself, acquire a
clear and lucid idea of the inconyeniences
attending it.
B9- Reserve is no more essentially con-
nected with understanding, than a church
organ with devotion, or wine with good ma
ture.
bsE- Wise men are instructed by reason !;
men of less understanding by experience !;
the most ignorant by necessity; and brutes
by nature.
B6r OF all the impostors and calumnia-
trrs in the world, we most despise those
who entrench themselves behind church
Pews, and the sanctity of religion.
10 You may depend upon it that he is
a good man whose Intimate friends are all
good, and whose enemies are all of char
acter decidedly bad.
D4- Pride is never more offensive than
when it condescends to be civil whereas,
vanity, whenever it forgets itself, naturally
assumes good humor.
U- Fine sensibliiies are like woodbines,
delightful luxuries of beauty to twine round
a solid, upright stem of understanding, but
very poor things, if unsustained by strength,
they aie left to creep along the ground.
70 A Persian philosopher being asked
by what method be acquired so much knowl-
edge, answered: By not being prevent
ed BY shame from asking questions when l
was Ignorant" Z
p9- Wealth is the smallest Of the gifts Of
God. What is it 10 be compared with his
Word, Or corporeal gifs-such as beauty,
health and activity? What is il to the
gifts Of the mind-such as intellect, science
and taste
b6y- When hearts are filled with holy
affections, and home is happy, then do the
young dwell in a charmed circle, which
only the naturally depnved would seek to
quit, and across which boundary tempta-
Gons 10 error shine out but feebly.
The OLDEST WOMAN IN THE WoRLD.-
The Charleston Is. C.) Standard thinks
that Mrs. Singleton, now living in the Will
hamsbnrg district, in that State, is the old
est woman in the world She is now in