The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-16
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Courage without discretion. il ram
with horns on both ends. he will hav
more ates on hand than he kan we'll at
tend to.
Hlnt1g after happiness, when yu find
it, the chances are, thet it liz skeleton.
A dog Il the only animal Ritter, who
luvs yu more than he luYs himself.
Thare liz no more real satisfackshuu,
in laying up in yure buzzum an injury,
than thare liz in stuffing n dead hornet,
who haz stung yu, and keeping him to
look at.
Old friends, IRE like old cheez, the
strongest.
Lies are likeillegitimate children, they
are liable tew call a man "father," when
he lest expekts it.
All money that il we'll spent iz q good
investment.
Ii we would oil Ov us take kare ov our
own souls, and let our nabors alone,
thare would be less time lost and more
souls saved.
Before would preach the gospel az
some ministers are obliged to, for 45O
dollars year, would git living az Ne
bIdkenezzer did, and let the congreka-
shun go tew grass to.
Contentment il the vittles, and drink
ov the soul.
Did yu ever hear son Dragging about
hiz father, whoze father with iustiss,
brag about hiz son.
The safest kind ov fait know ov liz
humility.
The man who never makes emmy mis-
takes, like the angle-worm, never gifts far
from hiz hole.
A brilliant blunder in writer liz often
one ov hiz best hits.
Tyranny liz often changed, but never
destroyed. i7et z ..... =
Sucking whipt sillybub thru a rhy
straw liz good deal like trieing tew liv
on buty.
Inever knu profound phool yet who
did not affect gravity, nor truly wize
man whoze face was not alwus cooked
and primed for a laugh.
Prudery liz nothing more than coauet-
ry gone to seed.
New York City liz fasst place; yu
kant even pass q phuneral procession,
unless yu hav got the fastest hoss.
Truth haz hardly clothing enuff tew
hide it's nakedness.
A pompus man iz like full blown
bladder-it liz pure malice to prick him.
The money and morality of this world
are good deal alike-the principal never
loses sight of the interest.
Pity cost nothing, and amt worth no.
thing.
What men kant do they are apt to i'd
mire; they don't critioise mountain,
because they kant make one
Poverty IL one ov them kind ov mis-
fortunes that We all ov us dread, but
none ov us pity.
There liz lots ov people in this world
who covet misfortunes jist for the luxury
of grunting.
It IL comparatively easy tew repent ov
the sins that we have committed, but to
repent ov those which we intend to COM
NIT liz asking tew much ov emmy man,
nowadays.
I thank God for one thing-that is,
when every boldly else is happy, I am
sure to be.
Most men go through life as rivers 20
to the sea, by following the lay of the
ground.
In youth we run into dificultys. in
old age difficultys run into us.
''Times aint as they used to be"-this
has bin the sollum and wise remark ov
Iloh hAd OSOA oAhCO ROdh WAS u OOIs
Secrets are cussid poor property at
best, if yu cirkulate them yu lose them,
and if you keep them, yu lose the inte-
rest on the investment.
Prosecuted for the devil sake, is what
sinners get for their allegiance.
Sum people won't beleave emmy thing
they kant prove; the things kant prove,
are the very things beleave the most.
Pride never shows itself more disgust
ingly than in the pomp of funeral.
Happiness is not idleness, but its
spirit is as free from labor as the life of
a ayearling heifer.
Good examples among the rulers are
the best laws they kan enakt.
The devil is probably the best judge
of human natur that ever lived, and he
must hav beleaved in the doktrine of
total depravity, or he wouldn't hav
undertook tew tempt tho Savior.
"a gentleman about town." is one
who pays cash for everything except his
debts.
Money il like charity, it kivers null
titude ov sins.
A pedant il one who fills himself in a
cellar with the klam broth ov literature,
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