The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-10
FAsrIDIousNEss.
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Fatidiousness IL nor
ance Ov propriety.
I hav saw people who had rather
die and be buried than say bull. They
wouldn't hesitate tew say male cos0.
If the thoughts are pure and the lam
guage liz ehaste, 1t will do tew ~
almost ennything.
The young lady who, fu years ago,
refused tew walk akrost potato nelds
bekauze the potatoze had eyes, ran
away from home soon Afterwards with
a ajewelry pedlar.
FastidiOusness, az general thing,
| liz holyday virtew, and i hav ire
quently notissed that thoze individuals
who are alwus afrade they shal cum
akrost sumthing hily improper, are
generally looking for it.
FastidiousneSs and delikasy are often
konfounded, but there liz this differ
ence-the truly delikate amt afrade
tew take holt ov things that they are
willing tew touch at all with their
naked hands, while the fastidious are
willing to take a holt of emmy thing
with gloves on.
Delikasy liz the cOquetry ov truth;
fastidiousness IL the prudery ov false
hood.
LOVE.
Love liz one ov the pashuns, and the
most difficult one ov all tew deskribe.
/ never yet hev herd love well de-
fined.
/ hav read several deskripshuns ov
il, but they were written by thOZe who
were in love Tor thought they waz),
and wouldn't believe such testimony,
not even under oath.
Almoste every boldly, sum time in
their life. haz bin in love, and if they
think il IL an eaZy sensashun tew de-
skribe, let them set down and deskribe
it, and see if the person who listens to
tie deskripshun viii be satitiied with
it.
/ waz once i'm love miself for long
years, and mi friends all said had
consumpshun, but knu all the time
what allied me, but couldn't deskribe it.
Now all that kan rek9lekt about
this luv sikness liz, that for thoze =
long years waz, if emmy thing, rather
more of kondem phoOl than ordinary.
Love liz an honorabel disseaze enuff
tew have, bekauz it liz natral; but
emmy phellow who haz laid six with it
for seven long years, after he gifts over
it feels sumthing like the phellOw who
haz phell down on the ice when it liz
very wet-he don't feel like talking
about it before folks.
FEAR
Sum pholks think fear is the result
ov edukashun, but I don't.
/ notiss that thOZe who are edukated
the most, and thOze who are edukated
the least, are troubled with fear just
alike.
Fear and courage are instinkts.
A man who liz a howard liz born so,
and when he liz full of skare, hiz hare
on hiz he'd will git up on end, / don't
kare how much edukashun yu pile on
top ov it.
The greatest towards in the world
are the men of the most genius-they
are the most silly towards.
One ov theze kind ov men will quake
with fear when a mouse knaws in the
wainskote at night, but they will face
IN earthquake next day with COM
DOSure.
[ don't knO Ov a more terrible sensa-
,hun than fear; it liz deth when it ex-
lausts itself and ends in despair.
/ am a CRATE howard miself, and be-
cave waz born so. and yet thare liz
nothing which dispize so mulch as
L would give all the other virtews i
nav got provided hav got enny), and
hroW in a hundred dollars in mummy
besides, for an unlimited supply ov
courage.
/ would like tew hav courage enuff
ew face the devil himself, if he waz
no least hit SASSY few me-
am satisfied that courage liz an in
tinkt, for notiss all the animal
hav it well defined.