Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-27
WIT AND wIsDoM.

Some snowy quality often screens num-
ber of unsightly ones.
Mems arguments often prove nothing but
their wishes.
None ore so weary as those who never
work.
Men are often resigned but never con-
tented. ,r,e
Undeserved popularity is the prelude to
contempt.
When men try to get more good than
comes from well doing, they always get
less. n |
Most men die before they have learned
to live. -.. ,.. 4
We can not escape the evils Of life by
shrinking from its duties. ...
If life improves the character, death will
improve the condition.
Injury must never provoke good man
to do wrong.
1t were base first to raise confidence
and then deceiveit.
Learning is preferable to riches and vir-
tue to both.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and
then they want every thing.
Make choice of your wife by the ears,
not by the eyes.
Make no enemies; he is insignificant in
deed that can do thee no harm.
Make other mems shipwrecks thy sea
marks. ,-'.
Many come to bring their clothes to
church rather than themselves.
Marriage has many pains, but oelibacy
has no pleasures. .
Men take less care of their conscience
than their reputation.
More credit can be thrown down in mo-
ment than can be built up in an age
Most men employ their first years so as to
make their last miserable.
Though virtue gives q ragged livery, yet
she gives golden oountenance.
Tranquility of mind and temperance Of
body are the complete felicities of life.
To be happy is blessed state, and that
every man may have if he pleases.
Neither look for troubles dor be entirely
/ unprovided for them. ..r.E
Never do that in prosperity whereof you
may repent in adversely. DE-.
Never marry without love nor without
reason. . ......
Never think of raising your reputation
| by detraction.
Next my friends, love my enemies, for
from them first hear of my faults.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, ava
rice all things. a1
Silence is the wisdom of fool, speech of
q wise man.
Sloth is commonly the mother of poverty.
Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no
more die than virtue itself.
Some people write, and others talk them-
selves out of reputation.
Sow good works and thou shalt reap
gladness.
Spare when young and spend when you
are old.
Speak of thyself seldom, and always with
great caution and modesty.
Spend the day we'll and thou wilt rejoice
at night
Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, of.
ten produce guilt.
Religion is the best armor in the world
but the worst cloak. .
Remember always your end, and thai
lost time never returns.
Search others for their virtues, thysel
for thy vices.
That anger is not warrantable which has
seen two suns.
That seldom remains secret which is
made known to three.
The best way of revenge is not to initiate
the injury.
The glutton and drunkard shall come Il
poverty. ..... ........
The life of solitary man will be GER
tainly miserable, but not certainly devout
The punishment of sinful act often con.
sists in the strength it gives to sinfu
habit.
Is forgetfulness any thing more than the
temporary displacement Of one idea by an
other? ..a ....
In whatever shape evil comes, we are ap
to exclnim, with Hamlet "Take any shap'
but IhatW -
What is the difference between a milk
maid and aaswGlloW'2 One skins the mill
and the other skins the water.
A disconsolate lover, who was discarded
consoles himself with the reflection that hi
loved one is married to lawyer, has tw,
children, and the fever.