Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
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ADMIRATION is tho daughter of ig-
nOrance.
How full of briars is the working day
world.
IT is the heart TINT makes the critic,
not the nose.
THERE is no grace in benefit TINT
sticks to the fingers.
We may not be able to longthcn our
lives, but We may greatly widen,
strengthen and enlarge it.
Do not choose your friend by his
looks. Handsome shoes often pinch
your feet.
I HAVE lived to know that tho secret
of happiness is never to allow your
energies to stagnate.
TnE most miserable pettifogging in
tho world is that of I. mnn i'll tho court
of his own conscience.
WHEN man owns himself to be in
error, he does but tell You, in other
words, that he is wiser than hc was.
LOOK always at the bright side OF
things, as the cheering and invigorut-
ing sun does; and remember that con-
tent is the mother OF good discretion.
A MAN has no more right to say MI
uncivil thing than to act one; no more
! right to say a rude thing of another
man than to knock him down.
THERE are no words so fine, no flat
terry SO SIT, that there is not II senti-
ment beyond them that it is impossible
to express; ut the bottom of the heart
| where true love is.
He whose wishes respecting the pos
essions OF this world are the most
reasonable and bounded, is likely to
lead the safest, and, for that reason,
the most desirable life.
APPRECIATION IN any part of our car
riage is like lighting up candle to our
defects, and never fails to make us no.
ticed, either as wanting sense or SINGER
ity.
| BEAUTY, like the Towering blossoms,
soon fades; but the divine excellence
of the mind, like the medical virtues of
the plant, remains in it when all those
charms are witherel.
PLEASURE and pain, though directly
opposite, are yet 80 contrived by nature
| as to be constant companions and it is
fact that the same emotions and
muscles of the face are employed both
in laughing and crying.
VIZ are told Ivy tourist that the
following sharp lines are written on the
| sash of a car window:
"When I SEQ . mans name
Scratched upon the glass,
know he owns q diamond,
And his father owns an ass.'
You cannot get honey if you are afraid
OF bees. nor plant corn if you are
afraid of getting mud on your boots.
When we can dig fields with tooth
pick, blow ships along with fans, and
grow plnm-cakes in flower pots, then
it will be nice time for handles.
SPEAK kindly in the morning it light
ems the cares If the day, and makes
the household and other affairs move
along more smoothly. Speak kindly
at night. for it may be that before the
dwan that some loved one may finish
his or her space of life for this world.
and 1T will be too late to ask forgiven
ess.
IT would not answer to introduce the
Koran in this country; it gives the
woman such an easy way of divorce.
Under the Mohamedan law, IN az
grleved woman has only to place her
slipper upside down before the cadi.
and the divorce is granted without fur
ther inquiry, as it is taken for granted
that she would not seek such redress
without the most pressing cause.
As WE can withdraw the attention at
pleasure from objects of sense, and
transport ourselves into world of our
own, SO, when we wish to moderate our
enthusiasm, we can dismiss the objects
OF imagination, and return to our ortli-
nary perceptions and occupations. But
in mind to which these intellectual
visions are not familiar, and which
borrows them completely from the
genious of another9 Imagination.
when once excited, becomes perfectly
ungovernable, and produces something
like temporary insanity. Hence, the
wonderful effects of popular eloquence
upon the lower orders, effects which
are much more remarkable than it pro-
duces on men. of education.
Stewart.