Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-08-11

than his own mind ,--.
IF you want to make a sober man a
drunkard, give him a wife that will scold
him every time that he comes home. If
you would make sane man crazy, follow
the same course.
-Tasso replied to a proposition that he
should take vengeance ona man who had in
iured him, Il do not wish to deprive him
either of his goods, his honor, or his life. I
only wish to deprive him of his ill-will.'
"A story is told of a person asking anoth-
er whether he. would advise him to lend a
certain friends of theirs money. "What,
lend him money! You might give him an
emetic, and he wouldn't return it,
The man who boasts of his knowledge,
is usually ignorant, anc wishes to blind the
eyes of his hearers. Merit and Literature
are always discovered--in few instances
unnoticed, unrewarded.
A man who isapprohensive of receiving
insults, is conscious he deserves them. True
dignity neverca be approached without re-
spect it is coat of mail, which will always
keep at distance the contemptible intruder.
Vanity is the produce of light minds
1t is the growth of all climes and of all coun-
tries; it is plant, often nourished and fos-
tered, yet it never bears fruit pleasing to the
taste of an intelligent man.
That's fine strain said one gentleman
to another, alluding to the tones of singer
at concert, the other evening. 'Yes,' said
a countryman who sat near, 'but if he strains
much more he'll burst
"A fellow was told at tailor's shop that
three yards of cloth, by being wet, would
shrink one quarter of yard-'Well, then
he inquired, 'if you should wet quarter of
yard, would there be any left?
Learning is not offensive in woman,
if she only preserves agentle and thorough
ly feminine disposition. Some one has very
significantly said thatit does not matter how
blue the stockings are, if only the petticoat
is long enough TO cover tnem.
IF we were as careful to polish our man.
ners as our teeth, to make our temper sweet
as our breath to cut off our faults as to
pare our nails; to be upright in character as
in person to shave our souls as to shave our
chin, what an immaculate race we should
become!
Men will sooner give large sums to erect
monument, and endow hospitals, to en-
blazon their names, than a cent to the mis-.
erable medicant, asking aims at their doors.
A scup of cold water in love- will be more
favorably registered by Deity, than millions
expended under the influence of vanity.
Prayer is ever profitable; at night it is
our covering; in the morning it is our ar
NOR. Prayer should be the key of the day,
and the lock of night. He is listed in all
Gods service and protection, who makes it
his first work to be enrolled by prayer, un-
der the standard of the Almighty. He car
ries an assistant angel with him for his help
who begs his benediction from above; and
without it he is lame and unarmed.
"A distinguished commercial gentleman,
whose word is his bond-that is to say, it
would puzzle any Bankruptcy Commissioner
to determine which was the more worthless
of the two-tbus laid down his travelling
chart through life I'd never believe more
than one-half of what see, more than a
quarter of what hear, and not word of
what I say. If others were equally cautious,
there would not be so many fools in this
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