Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-24
FuSt ImpTeshuns.

Fust impreshuns are sed tew be last
ing. Emmy man who haz only been
stung bi q hornet once will sware to
this. rtsa...
The safest way for most folks tew do
IL to do az the rest do. There ANT but
phew who kan navigate without kom-
pass 1#. ." s".1
A wize man IL never COMPOUNDED bi
what he don't understand, but phool
generally IT, ...f.r.....-r z....-
Young man, don't grind yure scythe
all on one side.
I don't kno ov a more lamentable7
sight than an old rake-even repent
ance looks like a weakness in him
Politeness IL often wasted, but it liz a
good and cheap mistake to make
Our best thoughts often come tew us
sudden; seldom perfekt. They require
polisbingup tew make them komplete
Do a good turn, young men, when
ever yu kan, even il yu have to turn
grindstone to do it.
= Repentance IL generally konsidered a
weakness, butt kno oy. nothing more
indicative ov strength. -4 .-
Human knowledge is not very kom-
prehensive after all, for have see men
who could lzalkulate an eklips to a dot,
who couldn't harness a boss -tew save
their lives. C...ss
/ don't knO ov more diffikult karac
ter tew fill, nor a more beautiful one
when filed, than the command Ill the
Holy Bible" Be We az wize az ser
pent, but az harmless az dove"
Every boldly in this world wants
Watching, but none more than. our
selves ....
Cunning IL very apt tew outwit itself
The men who turned the boat over and
got under 1T tew keep out oy the rain,
was one ov this kind. .u Of. am
A weak constitushun kan be strength
ened, but a weak set ov branes kant.
Vanity il strange pashum-rather
than be.out ov a Job, it will brag ov it's
vices. se~
q All phools are poor listeners.
About all it takes tew make wize
man IL tew give other peoples opin-
yuns as mulch weight as we do our
own. s ... He ala.
Flattery is like ice krem-to relish
good we W ant it little at a time, and
often ........ '..tt 1rr azE
The more WI praze a man who don't
deserve it, the more yu abuze him.
Yu kau't fiatter truly wize mamie
knows Just how mulch praze IL due
him that he takes, and charges over
tho balance tew the profit and loss ac-
kount 8"f@ .HEA l1aI
Once in a CRATE while Fortune will
acktually hunt for a man, but generally
thoze who are favored with her smiles
hev tew WOO them.
Thare seems tew be degree of ex-
centricitys attending all, and WI will
notiss this, that while the excentr citys
aov clown are quite often pleasant, the
excentYIcity ov crate man are most
always disagreeable. 'i''
[ don't beleave in fatalism, only SO
far az phools and raskals are concern
ed. -
It IL very diffikult for me few tell viii
the lion should be SO strong and the
ant so weak, when one IL nothing but q
great loafer and the other the very pat
tern of industry and thrift.
How kan we ever eXpekt tew find a
perfekt person III this world when we
kant even find one who il half az good
az he kan be.
NJ BEGINNERS in literature are alwas
bothered tew find a subjekt tew write
on. .
Men are seldum moderated; the
merkury in man finds it's true level in
the eyes OF the world just as certainly
az it duz IN the glass oY a thermome-
ter t.-
[ hav no doubt but that the human
hart kontains all the pure attributes
that the angels possess, but no single
hart kontains even a moiety oy them.
Society IL made up NV the good, bad,
and Indifferent !; and what makes so
mulch trouble IL, the jadifere1tS are IN
the majority.
A man who il neither good nor bad
IL like an old musket laid away, with
outany lock, but heavy charge in it,
When man haz dun charitable
thing, without letting the world lIno it,
he haz dun all that angel kould do in
the premises. -
Too much Nv the religion in this
world konsists in konfessing our sins to
ourselves and not to each other. a -
Idon't suppose there haz ever lived
a man without single virtew Even
Judas Iskariot g went and hanged him
self :" ..E fl-f.
The old saying haz it, cit is wize
child that knows his own father" but
III theze days Nv progression, it liz a
VIE father that knows his own child.
The vanity NV most men IL so mulch
more than a match fortheir experience,
that they seldom learn anything by ex-
perience. .-.
2 The pashnns are like the wick ov a
lighted candle, they don't die out until
they are burnt out. o..
Thare IL lots ov folks who are in sch
a CRATE hurry tew git religion that they
confess sins they amt guilty ov, and
overlook thoze that they am.
A man with he'd phull ov branes
kan afford to be kareless once in q
while, for even hiz plumbers are bril-
liant. .... .fr... ,E.r
Experience increases our wizdum,
but don't reduse our phoilys.
Buty IL power; but it liz the most
treacherous one [ kno ov t""a
The man who has got into the habit
ov never making emmy blunde1s, liz alto
gether too good to l1v in this world.
Wimmen bi natur are all coquets,
and men hi natur are all braggarts.
L will say this for mani don't know
ov emmy enterprise he has ever under
taken yet which had for its design the
general interest ov humanity, but what
haz succeeded. ...
If am charitable, if am komplasent,
if am grateful, if am honest, if i am
virtewous-w ov it, I hav simply
dun mi duty
l am satisfied that thare amt no SIGH
thing as eloquent words. Eloquence
lays i'll manner, and hav even seen an
eloquent necktie.
Style il everything to sinner, and
leetIe Nv it won't hurt even saint
Gravity az a general thing,iz either
the wizdom Nv phool or the cunning
NV a raSkail
Humility IL good thing tews have
provided a man liz sure he haz got the
right kind Thare never liz a time in
kat's life when she IL SO humble az Just
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