Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-06-08
Wise and Otherwise

Leave well enough alone is q good
rule; but to leave ill alone is better.
Hope is ike the sun, which as We
journey toward it, casts the shadow of
our burden behind us. = ~
Leisure is sweet to those who have
earned it, but burdensem to those who
get it for nothing.
Anybody can tell you what to put
in newspaper; but the real problem
is, what to leave out.
When we are morally i'll, truth
comes t.. us like medicine; often nee
essary but very hard to swallow.
That man is as good as dead who is
not anxious to do better tomorrow
than today, and to do better. to day
thar yesterday.
If you would be pungenr, be brief;r
Cor it is with words as with sunbeams
--thc more they are condensed, the
deeper they burn.z sas sssls ~.
To neglect at any time preparation
for death, is to sleep on our post at
the siege but to omit it in old agesis
to sleep at an attack.
/ Men are too prone to view their own
errors and fail-ngs with indulgence;
whilst they visit those of others with
unsparing apprehension.
] 1t is a safer thing emmy time to fol.
low mans advice than his example.
Hunting after health liz like hunting
for tieas--the more you hunt them, the
more they flea-Billings.
"Oh, Tommy, that was ahomlnablo
in you to eat your little sisters share
of the cake y "Why," said Tommy,
"didn't you tell me, mamma, that
was always to take her part :"
i Marrow minded men, who have not
a thought beyond the sphere of their
Town outlook, remind one ofthe Hindoe
maxim: " The snail sees nothing but
its own shell, and thinks it the grand
palace in the universe
: Childhood is like mirror, catching
. and rejecting images all around it.
!. An imlpious or profane thought utter
ed by a parents lips may operate on
a young heart like a careless spray OF
water upon polished steel, staining it
} with rust which no after securing can
} efface. a "a
Thut was a beautiful idea expressed
by a lady on her death-bed, in reply
l to remark of her brother, who was
taking leave of her to return to his
distant residence, that lie should prob
(. ably never meet her again in the land
of the living: " Brother, | trust we
! shall meet in the land of the living.
We are now in the land of the DYING
! Spurgeon made speech before o
! ocal religious society near London,
: the other day, in which he vigorously
: objected to the term " Reverend. II
= do not know myself he said :. by that
= name. / am not entitled to the siight-
. est reverence from anybody. If You
, must reverence men, find out some
: body that deserves it. | do not profess
r to.
t Life is road Of thorny perplexity
4 and weary disapp0intments, and leads
1 to a limitless eternity. Lilnitless
:. How the soul stands aghast, peering
e into the dim future, trying to divine
|. the mysteries beyond--to pierce the
). vale that hides the shoreless ocean
d whose dark waves roll on, and on, in
/. never ceasing icstlessliess.
il --.--A---.
BE SENsIBLE.--Do not he above
n Your business. He WHO turns up hi.
? nose at his work quarrels with Iii
I bread and butter. He is poor smitf
q who is afraid of bis own spark therl
e is some discomfort in all trades exeep
E. chimney sweeping. Ii sailors give u
Y going to sea because oil the wet; if ba
kers left off baking bread because til
:. hot work; if plowmen would not ploS
because Of cold if tailors would no
:. make onr clothes for fear of prickih
mi their fingers, what pass we woui
!. come to. Nonsense, my fine fellow
:. there's no shame about an honest cal
: ing: don't I've afraid OF. soiiing yor
) !. hands, there is plenty Of soap to !
ha had.
~ All trades are good to good trader
- Lucifer matches pay well if you Sc
enough of them. You cannot get no
ey If you are fri htened at bees, n
- plant corn if you are afraid Of gettil
" mud on your boots. When bars
"s iron melt under the south wind VII
~ you can dig the fields with toothpiek
an, blow ships along with .ians; mani
!" crops with lavender waters and gr
0.s plum cakes in flower pots, there '
IN be fine time for dandies; but "a
i"u the millennium comes We shall
'' have great deal to put up with.
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