Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-07-09
Number "a.
Brief Sayings.

4 III
kindness.
Practice flows from principle; for
as man thinks, so will he act.
Some persons seem to have virtue
enough for their whole tewn except
themselves.
Ii you wouldn't have affiictien
MAKE you second visit, listen to its
teachings at the FIRST.
very pure water has few fishes in
1t; very clear sighted persons have
few acquaintances.
In the race for wealth, we tuo and
toll and moil to arrive-nowhere
Tell not your secrets in cernfield:
it has thousands Of ears.
The voice gets hoarse from long
talking, but speaking eyes can speak
on for ever.
Mortified pride often takes the name
and guise of broken heart.
Misers take as much care of their
money as if they owned it, and use it
as little as if they didn't.
The loss OF resolute habits is like
the loss of his spectacles to a near
sighted man; it implies loss of the
power to recover them.
We may not like all the company
we meet with, but if we are brought
in contact with it, we must make the
best of it.
Inquisitive people are the tunnels
of conversation; they do not take any
thing fer their own use, but merely to
pass il to another.
The Pacific Ocean covers seventy
eight millions of miles; the Atlantic
twenty five millions.
We must be good moral anatomists
before we can fairly make an esti-
mate of each individuals capacity.
1t has been estimated that every
horse employed in farming consumes
one sixth of what he cultivates.
A mean man never knows he is
mean; he only thinks himself cautious,
just as near sighted person seems
to be looking far away.
Some people allow their affairs to
become so deranged, that their liza
bilities quite go out of their mind.
Jones (heartless fellow! says the
only parting that ever troubled him,
is the parting of his back hair.
Glory is so enchanting, that we
love whatever we associate with it,
even though it be death.
We sheuld more seldom take of
fence at each other, if we looked
oftener at the why than the what.
Fear Is often mistaken for conde-
scension, and condescension and for
bearance for pusillanimity.
The world of the young is the do
mestic circle; all beyond is fabulous,
unless brought home to them by
comment.
To speak the truth is useful to him
to whom it is spoken, but sadly the
reverse to him who speaks it, for it
makes him hated.
One of the most fatal temptations
to the weak is slight deviation from
the exact truth, for the sake of ap-
parent good.
How easy and pleasant it is to as
sign motives for the conduct of our
neighbors when we gather them un-
consciously from our own hearts.
Humility is a grace that adorns
and beauties every other grace;
without it, the most splendid natural
and acquired acquisitions lose half
their charm.
Your character can not be essen
TALLY injured except by our own acts.
If one speaks evil of you, let your
life be so that no one will believe
him.
Temperance puts wood on the fire,
flour in the barrel, meat in the lar
der, vigor in the body, intelligence
in the brain, and happiness in the
whole family.
Pictures must not be too pictur-
esque. Nothing astonishes men like
common sense, and plain dealing.
All great actions have been simple,
and all great pictures are.
A gentle heart is like ripe fruit,
which bends so low that it is at the
mercy of every one who chooses to
pluck it, while the harder fruit keeps
out of reach.
Some persons, as remedy against
thirst, drink before it comes on, and
then continue drinking-on the prln-
ciple that if you keep running after
a dog he will never bite you.
1t was a pertinent and forcible
saying of Emperor Napoleon, that a
"handsome woman pleases the eye,
but good woman pleases the heart.
The one is o jewel, and the other a
traaaurao