Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-12-03
Oaricties,

- cry icW persons have sense enough
to despisc the praise of a fool
- Somebody says that every cord Of
wood given to the poor is recorded above
If you DO good, forget it if evil re
member and repent Of it
- The most mis- chievous liars are those
who ke p just on the verge of truth
Those who heed not Gods writ are
often forced to heed the sheriff 5
The wise man justly regards good
ness as something to be attained
~ What a burthen Is leisure to mind
unpreparcd for its enjoyment
Live down calumny; the best reply
to slanderous reports is a good life
r. In the end all men find the devils
WORK the hardest they ever undertook
An angry woman. like an angry snake,
makes 4 terrible exhibition Of tongue
H Follow the fashion: you had better
display other peoples follics than your
own
Some people are so obtuse that one
would hardly think they could have an ac-
cute disease.
1t is not likely that tomorrow will
prove 4 more cOuyenient ~aason for your
reformation than to-day. Reform nor
The superficial must converse with
others. but the wise can in addition. con
verse also with themselves
Mrs Partington SAYS that there is
not enough Of the spirit Of IS in the South
to fill a nuid lamp.
~ Why do our soldiers need no BARRIERS
Because they are regularly shaved bv the
Government contractors
- Prosperity is no Just scale adversely
is the only balance to weigh friends in
PIutgrch
The smallest children are nearest
God as the smallest stars are nearest the
sun HaIt q German poet.
- Forgiveness, the noblest Of all self
denial is a virtue which he alone who
can willingly believe in another
= They pass best over the world. said
Queen Elisabeth. who pass over it quick
lv for it Is but a bog-if we stop we
sink
= For organizing an army, feeding,
clothing and equippins it, and going into
war business in general. the American peo-
pie stand loan.
II 1t is threatened that Breckenridge is
shortly to lead his brigade into southern
Kentucky. and put in motions the wheels
Of Provisional government for that State
= While we are reasoning concerning
life, life Is gone; and death though per
haps they receive him differently. vet treats
alike the fool and the philosopher-H Hume.
~ 1t Is curious 10 note the old seaman
gins of human thought Each subsiding
century yields some new mystery: We
build where monsters used to hide them
selves
People who are always talking sen
timents, have usually no very deep feel
ings The less water YOU have in Your
kettle, the sooner it begins 10 make a noise
and smoke
= Learn IN childhood, if you can. that
happiness i aot outside, but inside. 4
good heart and clear conscience bring
happiness, which no riches and no cireum
stances alone ever do
II There are a number Of heavy gums
now In the Notifications on Arlington
Heights and NJ the risk of being thought
traitorous. we must say that we wish the
rebels would take the whole charge Of
them
-Hewho Is open, without lcvitv. gener-
Gus. without waste. secret without craft
huutit- WITHOUT me&nnP~S. bold, without
lnsolence cautious. without anxiety reg
ullr. Yet not formal mild vet not timid
firm Vet not tvranuical is made 10 pass
he ordeal of honor. friendship, rirtte
The same object. seen from three
different points of view-the Past. the
Present and the Future-often exhibits
three different faces 70 Us. ike those si.n-
boards over Shop-doors which represent
the face OF . lion aS we approach. of Il
man when We are in front and Of an ass
when we have passed
= Man Is glorious poem each life a
canto. each day line The melody plavs
ieebiy ut first upon the trembliac chords
of his little heart. but with time c.ins
power and beauty A. 1t sweeps onward.
until at last the final notes die away. far
above the world. amidst the melodies of
heaven - Goethe
What sculpture is TO a block Of mar
bic education l. To human soul, the phi
losopher, the saint and the hero: the
wise, the good or the great man. very
often lie hid and concealed in a plebian,
which 4 proper education might have dis
INFERRED, and have broushtt TO light Spec
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