Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-08
Reflections.

will be surprised at the result.
1t is great relief to descend to trifies
once in while. | would like no better
fun myself, this minute, than to get right
down to the earth and play marbles with
any boy who didn't swear and who could
play good game.
One great reason why so few OF us are
ever happy is because we are more anx-
ious to makeothers envious than to please
ourselves.
Happiness and misery, after all, are very
equally divided among mankind.
| don't suppose there has ever been
success yet in which good luck didn't have
something TO do with it.
There are people so self-conceited that
nothing is done right unless it is done
in their way. These folks will even Try
to make a perfectly contented man think
he amt happy.
Even if there wasn't any virtue in truth,
there is policy enough in it to make it &C.
ceptable TO all.
When man gets so old that he has lost
all relish for any particular pleasure, then
he grows eloquent advising others to be-
ware of it,
would like to be shown something that
nobody could be found ready TO find fault
with.
The two leading articles In market just
now are pity and advice, but abuse is
worth more than either to any live man.
Men oftener get caught in traps they set
themselves than in any other way.
When man is lost to all shame club
and rawhide are the only arguments left,
An imitation has got to be good
deal better than an original TO equal it.
There are but few men who are good
company for others, and less who are good
company for themselves.
Hope is saucy jade, and has cheated
more folks than she has ever helped, but
no one is willing to cast her of.
| never knew an indolent man yet but
that had more work on hand than three
smart men could do.
Idle curiosity is worse disease than
the itch.
There never has lived man yet great
enough to make even the smallest crime
or vice respectable.
| don't suppose there is one single
thing IN this whole world made in vain,
but there are men who come dreadful
close to it.
How many people do you suppose there
are IN this world who would dare TO have
their hearts laid open to public view?
Old people are Just as foolish as young
ones the only difference is in the kind of
folly.
Life is a bondage anyhow, and those
who stick to the treadwheel the closest are
the happiest. RS.
1t is so easy and natural for people 10
give good advice that | have always won.
dered why they never could follow it any
better themselves.
The great glory is, not the amount OF
virtue that man has got on hand, but the
amount he has put out into the world on
interest.
Eloquence is the art Of expressing the
best ideas in the choicest and icwest
words.
Gravity is no evidence Of wisdom TO me,
but if a man is fool the best thing he can
do is to be grave and keep still on the sub
ject.
Politeness of any kind is no doubt bet
ter than rudeness, but its real worth de-
ponds upon its honesty.
There's lots Of people in this world who
spend so much time watching their health
that they haven't got any time left to en-
joy it.
If you want TO make a man ungratetul
for what he has got out Of you just stop
giving him anything more.
The heart is weaker than the head, but
I don't believe 1t makes SO many blum
ders.--Josh Billings, IN ". Y. Weekly.