American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-07-20
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80, Jacob said master to his appren-
tice boy, st is wonderful to see what guam
tity you can eatp Yes, MASTER replied the
boy, I've been practicing since was a
child!'
Nobody ventures upon the high sea of
public life without becoming sea-sick sooner
or later.
Never employ yourself to discover the
faults of others-look to your own.
To be great man requires only courage
enough to support adversely.
How much pains have those evils cost US
which have never happened.
Nothing is more easy than to do mischief
nothing more difficult than to suffer without
complaining.
On a reverse of fortune, we always respect
those who respect themselves in prosperity.
Money and time have both their value.
lie who makes q bad use of the one will
never make good use of the other.
There is no policy like politeness; and
good manner is the best thing in the world,
either to get a good name or to supply the
want of it.
The bow that is always bent loses its
spring; and the mind will never do much I'M
( less it sometimes does nothing.
Mirth is like flash Of lightning, that
breaks through a gloom of clouds, and
glitters for a moment. Cbeerfulness keeps
up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it
with steady and perpetual security.
SOUND PHtLosopHY.-Punch says-and
who would want better authority-that the
reason Editors are so apt to have their man
ners spoiled is because they receive such
a vast number of ''evil communications"
A singular duel was lately fought in
Quebec, Canada, between Messrs NORM
and Dessaulles. Nobody was hurt because
the seconds forgot to put caps on the pis-
tolls.
A writer in the Charleston Courier sug-
gests that Lincoln is better qualified for
enacting the part of 'blockhead' than a
BLOCKADE
knowledge cannot be acquired without
pains and application. 1t is troublesome
and like deep digging for pure water; but
when you once come to the pure springs,
they rise up and welcome you.
4 religion that never suficcs to govern
which does not sufficiently distinguish one
from a wicked world, will never distinguish
hin from perishing world.
The love Of pleasure betrays into pain;
and many q man. through love of fame,
becomes Infamous.
All men look to happiness in the future.
To every eye heaven and earth seem to
embrace in the distance.
pondency; it does man no good to carry
around tightening rod to attract trouble.
Never purchase love or friendship by
gifts; when thus obtained they are lost as
soon as you stop payment.
Nature is not always understood she is
sometimes making poetry when we think
she is only making weeds.
By education men BECOME easy to lead,
but difficult to drive-easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.
Oh my heart, if thou desirest ease in this
life, keep thy secrets undiselosed like the
rosebud; take warning frcm the lovely flow
err which, by expandin9 its hitherto hidden
beauties, when in full bloom, gives its hap
piness to the winds.
Oliver Wendell Holmes calls kiss a
/ limping consonant. He should have added
that it usually follows r0arel.
/ Give to grief little time, and it softens
to regret, and grows beautiful at last, and
we cherish it as we do some old dim picture
i of the dead.
In this life we should hope for everything
that is good, because there is nothing which
Il may not be hoped for, and nothing but what
God is able to give us.
+ Every desire bears its death in its very
qualification. Curiosity languishes under
/ repeated stimulants, and novelties cease K
excite surprise, until at length we canno
even wonder at asniracle.