The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-12-12

a good man is kinder to his enemies
than bad men are to their friends.
Dress plainly; the thinnest soap bub-
bles wear the grandest colors.
a wise book is true friend it's author
a public benefactoi.
Honesty sometimes keeps man from
growing rich, and civility from being wit
ty.
An inebriated man can weigh moth
ing correctly; he is always losing his bal
ance.
"When the wicked rule the people
mourn That's what's the matter now.
We pass lives in regretting the past.
complaining of the present, and indulgiug
false hopes for the future.
A man who was lost 10 slumber is said
to have found his way out again on
nightmare.
A Frenchman wishing TO compliment: a
girl as a little lamb called her small
mutton
1t requires less philosophy to take
things as they come til an to part with
things as they SO.
The borrower ties rope around his
neck and puts the end Of it in the hand
of his neighbor.
Woman is at the bottom Of all mis-
chief.'
Yes said Frank, 'and when l used to
get into mischief, my mother would soon
be at my bottom
Magnanimous repentance never waits
for the spur Of remorse before it bounds
toward the injured one with confessions
and recon cilialion.
A man often thinks that he knows more
than he does, never that he knows less. A
sleeping man dreams that he is awake, a
waking man never dreams he sleeps
Let any lady paint who chooses. If
she raises hue npon her cheek, that is
no reason why you should raise hue and
cry.
Some persons seem to obey literally the
injunction, hold fast to the TRUTH they
never allow it TO escape them.
To say of gentleman that he is very
domestic man, and makes good husband.
is only more polite way of saying that
he is hen pecked.
When the hay-day of life is over, old
age may be sunny and chirpiug merry
heart may nestle IN cEirping frame. like
a swallow that builds in a ruined Chin
ney.
Honesty is not only the best policy but
the highest wisdom. However difficult
it may be for integrity to get on, it is a
thousand times more difficult for knavery
to get off.
1t seems strange that we of the present
age are constantly praising the past age
which our fathers abused, and as constant
ly abusing the present age which our chill
dren will praise.
A gentleman inquired of a carpenters
boy:
My lad, when will the job Jour master
has now OIL hand be completely
4 can't say, sir; it's day job, and will
depend upon how soon the old man gets
another order
What we call wisdom is the result, not
the residuum, Of all the wisdom OF past
ages. Our best institutions are like young
trees growing upon the roots Of old trunks
that have crumbled away.
The shadows of the mind are like those
of the body. In the morning of life they
all lie behind us at noon we trample them
under foot ; and in the evening they stretch
long and deepening before us.
Wink at small injuries rather than
avenge them. II to destroy single bee,
you throw down the hive, instead of one
euemy you make thousand
1t is convenient to be sick when bust
ness is dull We have been told of a
poor man who has lived six months on a
spraiued ankle. lie belongs to three or
four benevolent associations, and draws
three or four dollars weekly from each.
File right sad an officer to his com
pany.
'Bedad.' said an Irishman. who stood
near by sharpening his saw, it's my
property, and I'll be aither coin' just AS
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