The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-11-14
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A friend that you buy with presents,
will be bought from you.
To be happy is not the purpose of
our being, but to deserve happiness.
Hypocrites are beings Of darkness,
distinguished in garments of light.
1t is not always the dark place that
hinders, but sometimes the dim eye.
Wisdom is the talent Of buying vir-
tuous pleasure at the cheapest rate.
Prefer loss before unjust gain; for
that brings grief but once this forever.
Is it possible for garret window to
suffer room.attic panes?
1t is funny thing about dentist,
that the more he stops the faster he
gets on.
1t is all very we'll to say, y,"Take thirgs
as they come" but suppose they don't
come?
- Resolve to perform what you ought,
and perform without fail what you re.
solve.
Wit should be used as shield for
defense rather than sword to wound
others.
The light of friendship is like the
light Of phosphorus -seen plainest
when all around is dark.
Confess ignorance in regard to sub
jects on which you are uniformed;
listen and learn.
A Western genius is catching feas,
pulling out their legs, and selling them
for fax seed.
Opinions founded on mere prejudice
are always sustained with the greatest
violence. ..#
"The dearest spot on earth," has
at length been located. II is at the
store that does not advertise.
Poverty, like other bullies, is forni.
dable only to those who show that they
are afraid of it.
Reading furnishes us only with mat
ter of knowledge; it is thinking that
makes what we read our own.
Our characters are formed and sus-
tained by ourselves and by our own
actions and purposes, and not by 9TH
ers.
Better go without the pearls which
lie at the bottom of deep and rapid
river than encounter the risk of diving
for them.
The road ambition travels is too mar
row for friendship, too crooked for
love, too rugged for honesty, and too
dark for conscience.
One of the Oshkosh ministers, when
he marries couple, finishes by saying
"Sufer little children to come unto
them amen" ......
An Oswego local saw two ladies go
for moving train, and took out his
pencil and note book joyfully. But
they got aboard safely.
The study of literature nourishes
youth, entertains old age, adorns pres
perty, solaces adversely, is delightful
at home and unobtrusive abroad.
Some of the Californians are laugh
ing at stranger who, ia one of their
towns, said that he had been "perusing
around seeing the climate"
"Are these rooms to let?" said
polite gentleman to handsome young
lady. "Yes, sir, "Are you to let with
them 7" "Ycs sir, I'm to be let alone"
If you are poor, be willing to appear
so. Those whose friendship is worth
possessing will never Judge of your
worth by the weight of your purse.
Nobody ever lost anything by love"
said sage looking person. THAT'S
not true" said lady who heard tho
remark, ''for | once lost three nights
sleep.
The Troy Wing reports neighbor-
ing farmers cutting their cornstalks,
curing and housing them for cattle
feed, singing, Fodder o, Fodder,
come home wid me now"
A lap-dog biting a piece out of a
male visitors leg, his mistress thus ex-
pressed her compassion; "Poor little
creature, l hope it will not make him
sick" B."
Eight kinds Of kisses are mentioned
in the scriptures the kiss of salutation,
valediction, reconciliation, subsection,
appreciation, alteration, treachery and
affection.
Life is divided into three terms that
which was, which is, and which will be.
Let us learn from the past to profit by
the present, and by the present to live
for the future.
A Racine girl wanted her lover to
swear on the Bible that she was all the
world to him, and when he wouldn't
she knocked him down with the sacred
volume.
A beautiful form is better than
beautiful face beautiful behavior is
better than beautiful form it gives
higher pleasure than statues and pic
lures il is the finest Of the fine arts.