Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
Gems Of Wisdom.

IRUST nOI Inc world, Tor 1t never pay
eth that it promiseth. Augustine.
WHEN spring unlocks the flowers to
paint the laughing soil.-Herber.
WE are all liable to be corrected by
books as by companions Fielding.
WOMEN do not disapprove their
rivals; they hate them.-James Parton.
Con is the brave mans hope, and not
the coward's excuse .--Plutarch.
IT is kind Of good deed to say well,
and yet words are no deeds.-Shaks-
peare.
GIRLS we love for what they are;
young men tor what they promise to be.
Goethe.
IHE ruins Of house may be repair
ed; why cannot those of the face LA
Fountaine.
THAT is the briefest and sagest of
maxim which bids to smeddle not
Cotton.
CURIOSITY is as much the parent of
attention as attention is of mercy
Whately.
PLEASURES are like peoples spread;
you seize the flower, it's bloom is shed.
Burns.
MUCH more may a judge overweight
himself In cruelty than in clemency.-
Sir P. Sidney.
The broken eggshells of civilization
which time has Matched and deyoured.
Julia Ward Howe.
FULLY was not SO eloquent as thou,
thou nameless column with the buried
base.-Byron.
OF all the paths leading to wou1an's
love, pity is the straightest.- Beaumont
and Fletcher.
The morning of life is like the dawn
OF day, full of purity, of imagery, and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
We ought not to Judge mems merits
by their qualifications, but by the use
they make of them.-Charrou.
YOUNG men are apt to think them
selves wise enough, as drunken men are
to think themselves sober enough
Chesterfield.
TINE will bring to light whatever is
hidden; it will conceal and cover up
what is now shining with the greatest
splendor. -Horace.
MAN has here two and a half minutes
one to smile. one to sigh, and half an
one to love; for in the midst of this
minute he dies.-Richter.
The schoolboy counts the time till
the return of the holidays; the minor
longs to be Of age; the lover is impa-
tient until he is married. Addison.
For man learns more readily and re-
members more willingly what excites
his ridicule than what deserves his es-
TEEN and respect.--Horace.
REASON is director of a mans will.
discovering in action what is good; for
the laws of well doing are the dictates
OF right reason.-Hooker.
PLATE sin with gold, and the strong
lance Of justice hurtless breaks; arm It
in rags, pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Shakespeare.
PUBLIC feeling is nov apt to side with
the prosecuted, and our modern martyr
is as likely to be smothered with
roses as with Chaplin.
YET have I ever heard it said that
spies and tale bearers have done more
mischief in this world than poisoned
bowl or the assassin s ger.-Schiller
A HELPING word to one in trouble is
often like switch on railroad track:
but one inch between wreck and smooth
rolling prosperity. -Beecher.
LIBERTY of thinking and expressing
our thoughts is always fatal to priestly
power, and OF those pious frauds on
which it is commonly founded.-Hume.
THERE is tide in the affairs of men,
which taken at the food leads on to for
tune; omitted, all the voyage of their
lives is bound in shadows and myster-
Shakespeare.
DIFFERENT minds incline to different
objects; one pursues the vast alone. the
wonderful, the wild; another signs for
harmony and grace and gentlest beauty.
-Aikenside.
THINKERS are scarce as gold; but he
whose thoughts embrace all his sub
ject, pursues it uninterruptedly and
fearless of consequences, is diamond
OF enormous size.-Layater.
MANY do with opportunities as chill
dren do at the seashore, fill their little
bands with sand, and then let the grains
fall through, one by one, till all are
gone.-Rev. F. Jones.
WE may initiate the Deity in all his
attributes, but mercy is the only one
in which we can pretend to equal him.
We cannot. indeed, give like God; but
surely we may forgive like him. -Sterne.
| UNDERTAKE to show you that you
have means and powers to exhibit
greatness of soul and manly spirit;
but what occasion you have to find fault
and complain, do you show me, if you
can.-Epictetus.
OF all the vices avarice is the most
generally detested; it is the effect of an
avidity common to all men; it is be-
cause they hate those from whom they
can expect nothing. The greedy misers
rail at sordid misers. --HelVetiuS
The pleasantest hospitality waiteth
not for curious costliness, when it can
give clearly suf6ciency. More cometh
Of pride and greater friendliness to your
own ostentation, than to the comfort of