The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-25

The feeIDg Is often the deeper truth,
the opinion the more superficial one.
In mist the heights can for the most
part see each other, but the valleys cannot.
To talk without effort is, after all, the
great charm of talking.
Tasteappreciates pictures; connoisseur-
ship appraises them.
A use must have preceded an abuse,
properly SO called.
Half the failures in life arise from pull
ing in ones horse as he is leaping
Hardly anything is so difficult in wri-
ting as to write with ease.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the
sail, and mankind the vessel.
I could hardly feel much confidence in
a man who had never been imposed upon.
"Who wants to see a masquerade ?"
might be written under looking glass.
The most mischevous liars are those
who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
Truth endues mans purposes with
somewhat Of immutability.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century
was prose, our prose in the seventeenth,
poetry.
We may keep the devil without the
swine, but not the swine without the
devil.
A compliment is usually accompanied
with a bow, as if to beg pardon for pay
ing it.
Friendship closes its eyes, rather than
see the moon eclipsed; while malice de-
MES that it is ever at the full.
Many men spend their lives in gazing
at their own shadows, and SO dwindle
away into shadows thereof.
Children always turn toward the light.
0 that grown-up people in this would
become Ike little children.
Some men so dislike the dust kicked
up by the generation they belong to, that,
being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
South's sentences are gems, hard and
shining; Foltaire's look like them, but
are only French paste.
Is not man the only automaton upon
earth The things usually called so are
in fact heteromatons.
Much of the worlds wisdom is still
acquired by necromaney-by consulting
the oracular dead.
OF what use are forms, seeing that at
times they are empty? Of the same use
as barrels, which at times are empty, too.
Temporary madness may perhaps be
necessary in some cases to cleanse and
renovate the mind, just as fit of illness is
to carry off the humors of the body.
He'll Ga wise man said) is paved with
good intentions" Pluck up the stones,
ye sluggards, and break the devils head
with them.
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if !
they are not justice, partake much of the
nature Of justice, which, in its highest
sense, is the spirit Of distributive order.
He who wishes to know how people
thrives under a groveling aristocracy,
should examine how vigorous and thick
the blades of grass are under a plantain.
Open evil at all events does this good
it keeps good on the alert. When there
is no likelihood of an enemy's approach
ing, the garrison slumber on their post.
How much better the world would 90
on, if people could but do now and then,
what Lord Castlereagh used to deprecate,
and turn their backs upon themselves
Instead of watching the bird as it flies
above our heads, We chase bis shadow
along the ground and finding we cannot
grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.
Jealousy issaid to bean offspring flove.
I ct, unless the parent makes haste to
strangle the child, the child will not rest
TIL it has poisoned The parent.
Plihy speaks of certain animals that
will fatten on smoke. How lucky it
would be for sundry eloquent statemen,
# they could get men to do so!
Poverty breeds wealth and wealth in
It's turn breeds poverty The earth, to
form the mound, is taken out of the ditch;
and whatever may be the height Of the
one, will be depth of the other.
They who are sinking in the world, find
more weights than corks ready to attach
themselves to them and even if they
,an lay hold on bladder, it is too likely
o burst before it raises their heads above
water.
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