The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-09-16
Well managed faults often make bet

rhymers are undoubtedly their "refraiRs." 7"
God gives every bird its food, but does
not throw it into the nest.
1t is not the number of our friends that
gives us pleasure, but the warmth of the
few, .-.. , .e
Our griefs are no doubt deeply inter
estiDg to ourselves but they are great
bores tocour friends. a - z.
Whatever we love becomes thereby
above sell, and We pay unconscious hom-
age to i. ga-,.- t-s
If you have nothing of the Divinity
within you, you will vaiDly essay to wor-
ship the Divinity without. .s1
| We cannot well dispense with the re-
spsct of others unless we are possessed of
cur own.
No faithful workman finds bis task
pastime. We must toll or steal-no mat
ter how We name our stealing.
It is only by labor that thought can be
made healthy, and only by thought that
labor can be made happy. I+
"Merseg on me p exclaimed witty
Lancashire witch, when she fell into the
river at Liverpool. eel .v.1 -.
/ An honest man is the noblest work of
God but the edition is small, suggests a
sa!irIcal writer. t-c2 --@
In what case is it absolutely impossible
to be slow and sure i? In the case of a
watch. .z..5 .-- ~
A single woman has generally but a
single purpose, and we all know what
! that is. -." - -,-. -
Where one man or woman is injured
! by loving too much, nine hundred and
ninety-nine die from not loving enough
Lowliness is the base of every virtue.
And he VINO goes the lowest builds the
safest. God keeps his pity for the proud.
White hair is the chalk with which
time keeps its score-two, thrae, or four
score, ,as the case may be-on mans head.
'Are you the mate 2" said man to
the cook. of a vessel in port. "No," said
! be, "but I'm the man as boils the mate"
1t is one thing for on editor to ''invite
public attention." and quite another for
the public attention to accept the invita-
tion. -
A student once asked, "Can virchue.
fortichude. gratichuds or quiechude,
dwell with man who is stranger to
rectichude p .. -.... -.....
If you would be pungent, be brief, for
it is with words as with sunbeams-the
more they are condensed, the deeper they
burn. E -gg -rs' #
Some one called Richard Steele the
vilest of mankind He retorted, with.
proud humility, at would be glorious
world if | were" .-.. ....,...- ....
Speech is too often, not as the French
men define ii, the art Of concealing tho't,
but of sitting and suspending it SO that
there is none to conceal. -ae. s1s .rs
As general thing, men are more com
peteut to teach than women, in routine :;
out of routine, women are the surest
teachers +-
The degrees shorten as We proceed from
the lower to the higher latitudes; the
years shorten in like manner as We pass
onward through life.
Keen satirists are usually men of tai.
ent, who, thinking and feeling more cor
rectly than they live, wreak on their
neigh bors the bitterness of their own re-
morse. -.t-.-...F = ........ .-a.
Writes an enthusiastic young cavalier
after a glorious dash of a few hundred
miles through the euemy's country in
Mississippi: "Snlomon in all his glory
was never on a raid like one of these
Gail Hamilton says woman ought to
be very handsome, or very clever, or else
go to work and do something; she is very
clever herself, and has done something )
is that an ergo against her beauty / i
Let uone of Us rely upon the goodness
of our intentions to shield us from trouble
or blame. Even if they should not turn !
to paving-stones down below, they are apt |
to form very rough road for US here
above. sa- .- A@
A poet was walking with NJ de Tale
rand IN the street, and at the same time
reciting some of his Own verses. Tale
rand, perceiying at short distance man |
yawuing, pointed him ont to his friend,
saying Not SO loud; he hears you"
A poet who is prematurely bald, ex-
cuses it in this ingenious and complimen- I