Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-07-14
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system. Souls are not saved in bundles.
Perfection to the artist, like the horizon
~ the voyager, is equally afar of.
If you crack rough Jokes at other poo-
pie expense, you may get your head crack.
ed at your own.
The first part Of married life is the shine
OF the honeymoon; the rest too often COM
mon moonshine.
canter across field may be a pleasant
thing; but we hate canter in the pulpit.
A cunning political rope walker NAV
come TO rope he can't walk.
If poet cannot wear bays upon his head
he can at least wear baize.
Always have suit of plush, and you
Will never be "non-plushed."
In romance, disguise sometimes conce,ls
grandeur; but in real life it is generally the
shelter Of disgrace.
BY pulling your fingers from the water
! you leave no hole in the fluid and by dying
you leave no vacancy in the world,
Undoubtedly womanis heaven sutterpost
work. '''0'
Never chase a lie; let it alone and it will
chase itself to death.
Miserable men have generally no bowels
Tor others and no mercy on their own.
a great mistake sometimes turns out bet
ter than a good intention.
People always wish to be saved from the
consequences of their vices, but not from
their vices.
It is vulgar error to think that ghosts
walk at night, but the dead talk 70 u
then.
The currency is unlike other substance
the lighter it is, the faster it falls
Hurry and cunning are the two apprenti-
ceS OF dispatch and skill, but niether Of
them ever learn his masters trade
Volatile spirits must be closely confined.
or they will soon be dispatched.
Religion is as the ground, theologies as
these piss away
If you laugh too long and too immoler-
atel y at joke, others will laugh ct you
rather than the joke.
There is always need for a man to 90
higher, if he has the capacity to do it.
To prove or doubt the existence of Cod
| is to prove or doubt the existence of exis-
tence.
a young girl loses her freshness by ming
/ hing with fashionable society, as a bright
stream does by mingling with the sea.
] If you and your sweetheart vote upon
the marriage question; you for IT. and she
against it, don't fatter yourself as to its
! being TIC.
A young gentleman from the rural dis.
trlct, who advertised for a wife through
, the newspapers, received answers froIa
eighteen husbands informing him that be
r. could have theirs.
. Play Is the first poetry of the human be
n ing; eating and drinking are his prose.
n Womens love for military officers is gen
, orally uniform.
e A bad cold makes a man supercilious. =
. he sneeZcs q: everything.
Many fellow who has a fine coat should
> rather have rough 'Jerk1n.
Laborers strike and stop work. \ clocl
strikes and works right on.
, Don't attempt another work, nor adopt
J, another fact 1t is main lesson of wis.
dom to know your own wisdom from other
peoples.
In play or pleasure you cannot speak too
much with children, nor in Furnishing them,
too little.
! Woman $ tears, shed too often, harden
the husband instead of softening him. The
eye water becomes j petrifying water
To the child, every bit of wood is gilded
| tower-rod, on which fancy can bud hun
dred ,leaved roses.
! If men wear false calves, it may at least
be said in their behalf that they themselves
are real ones.
As Affections and years may improve in
diyiduals, so battle-felds and centuries may
improve nations.
There have been many religions, but
there Is only one code Of morals.
Some men are ike pyramids, which are
very broad where they touch the ground,
but grow narrower as they reach the sky
4 Christianity which will not help those
, who are struggling from the bottom to the
| top Of society, needs another Christ to die
. for it.
Boys on land often play the game Of
| pitch and toes. When at sea still oftener.
The State prescribes laws which a
loving individual would never have thought
of making, yet is obliged to obey; just at
the law book, not pair of lovers, contem-
plates divorce.
! We have met the gentlest, mildest
and palest ladies in public places, who,
nevertheless, in their own homes, were
like beautiful white roses, which prick
as sharply as the fullest and the redest
t A Sympathetic person is in the dill.
e emma of swimmer among drowning men
=. who all catch at him, and, if he gives so
e much as a leg or finger, they will drown
n him.
4 Week filed up with selfshness,
8 and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious ex-
l ercises, will make u good Pharisee, but a
:, poor christian.