The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-08-30
NUMBER IL.
The reproaches Of friend should be
strictly just, and not too frequent.

AMBITION, energy, industry and per-
severance are indispensable for success
in business.
A MAN in the finest suit Of clothes 10
often a shabbier fellow than aacther
dressed in rags. Su >
Do good to him who does you evil
and by this means you viii! gain the
victory over him. So
To prevent the smell Of cooking in
the house-Have nothing for breakfast,
and warm it over for dinner and supper.
MANY persons cavil at high and
mean things alike, just as dog barks
with equal earnestness at the moon
and beggar. l ,s..., -
LET youth who stands at the bar
with glass of liquor in his hand, con.
slider which he had better throw away
the liquor or himself. ..-@.$-a-.
WOMEN love to find in men a difi.
cult combination-a gentleman which
will invariably yield, with force which
will invariably protect.
To prevent milk from turning sour
TO each quart Of milk add fifteen
! grams of picarbonate of soda. This
addition will not affect the taste Of the
milk, and it promotes digestion.
SIDNEY Smith once said, in an aris-
:ocratic party: THAT q man, to know
how bad he is, must becore poor;
to know how bad other people are, must
become rich"
kNowLEDeE cannot be acquired with
out pains and application. 1t is trou-
blesome. and like deep digging for pure
water but when once you come 10 the
springs, they rise up and meet you.
CONSTANT success shows US but one
side Of the world ; for it surrounds us
with fatterers, who will tell us Lnly our
merits, and silences our enemies, from
whom alone we might learn our defects.
Personal respectability is totally in
dependent Of large income. It's great.
est secret Is self-respect. Poverty can
never degrade those who never degrade
themselves BY vain pretence or duplici,y.
MEN's lives should be like the day,
more beautiful in the evening or like
the summer, aglow with promise; and
the autumn, rich with golden sheavcs,
where good works and deeds have ii.
pened on the field.
A MAN that hath no virtue in himself
ever envieth virtue in others for mems
minds will either feed upon their own
good or upon Others evil; and who
wanteth the one will prey upon the
other.-Lord Bacon.
"LooK uP," thunder,d the captain
Of vessel, as his boy grew giddv
while gazing from the topmast, "look
up" The boy looked up, and returned
in safety. Young man, look up, and
you will succeed. Never look down
and despair. Look up.
TIE number of difficulties make the
Christians conquest the more illustri.
Gus. A gracious man should be made
up of all fire, overcoming and consum.
ing all opposition as the fire does the
stubble. All difficulties should be but
whet'stones 10 his fortitude.
THOSE who have read of everything
are thought to understand every,bing
too; but it is not always so. Reading
furnishes the mind only with the mate.
rials of knowledge. It is thinking that
makes what we call ours. We are Of
the Eliminating kind.
A CHRISTIANS graces are but Christ's
picture, Christ's image; and therefore
do not you worship his image, and ia
the meanwhile neglect his person.
Make much Of his picture, but make
more of himself; let his picture have
your eye, but let himself have your
heart.
SELF-IMPoRrANcE.-Of such mighty
Importance every man is 10 himself, and
ready to think he Is 30 to others, with
out once making this easy and obvious
reflection, that his affairs can have n,
more weight with other men than theirs
have with him and how little that is,
he is sensible enough.
LooE on the good things which God
has given you in this world, and at
those which lie has promised His fI,
lowers in the next. lie who goes in.
10 his garden 10 look for eobwebs and
spiders, no doubt will find them while,
he who looks for flower, may re,urn
into his house with one blooming III
his bosom. .....
THERE is an anecdote extant of the
late Lady Byron, which is worth 're pea I &,
ing. Being one day in company will,
Lord Palmerston, she asked his lord,
ship how he had managed to survive
the many administrations of which l,e
had been part and parcel. Lady BY
ron," replied the premier, "you mus.
know that from my birth I have hob.
bied through life." ....
FRIENDS that are worth having arc
not made, but "grow," like Topsy iD
the novel. An old man gave this adj,