Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-18
Sudden Thoughts.

Honesty and happiness seem to be alike
in this particular-those who have the
most of either seem to make the least fuss
about it.
Envy seems to be disease that every
body has and everybody is ashamed of.
Adversely puts weapons into man s
hands to fight back, while prosperity too
often disarms him.
Virtue and vice are so adroitly mingled
in some constitutions that the man him.
self can't tell which is who.
1t is more difficult to keep friend than
it is to reconcile an enemy.
The most dangerous of all tiattery Is the
very common kind that we bestow upon
ourselves.
Although love is blind il can't be fet-
tered; il has enslaved thousands, but
won't be enslaved itself
We are never more than half as misera.
able as we think We are.
Broken hearts are scarce anyhow, and
there are more cures for them than mos,
any complaint know of.
IL man is. only true to himself IL will
be very difficult for others TO overreach
him
Heroes, like Fourth of July orations,
are often made TO order
A success seems to be composed OF
three ingredients, to-wit: good luck, en-
ergy and some more good luck.
Some folks don't seem to have any fac
ulty to get ahead only by hanging on h.
the coat-tails of others; this may be honest
but il Is poor,
There Is nothing perhaps that shows the
veneration we all have for money more
than the fact that the wealth of others is
always overrated
ViItue seems To thrive the best on poor
soil where the ground is very rich, if il
amt well hoed, there Is sure 10 be two
weeds to one corn.
The man who undertakes 10 do two
things at once will be pretty sure to spill
one and slop over the other.
Don't be discouraged ii your children
don't prove to be young miracles; plants
of the slowest growth bear fruit the latest
would rather trust most men with my
| pocket book than with a secret.
Lazy people are great pest They
are as bad as flies, always getting into
| somebody's cream or molasses.
| There Is no grapes so sour as those we
can't reach--Esop SAYS so.
] don't care how cunning man may
he, he will find IL Is great deal easier Ia
cheat himself than it is other folks.
An affected fool Is q great deal more I'm
| comfortable 60 meet than natural one.
He who plays poor hand we'll is en-
titled 10 more credit than he who wins
with good one.
II Is the intention that makes thing
| good, bad or Indifferent, without any re-
| gard to the result
1t is often hard to distinguish between
praise and ilat,ery; the one may be honest,
the other never is. Honest praise will
strengthen any man, but fiattery will
weaken anything except mule.
| know lots of folks who have got just
brains enough TO spoil them. II they had
less they might possibly amount to some
thing.
Weak men are the hardest kind 10 con
troll. They have no more backbone than
an angleworm.
1t is very seldom we see man who Il
too much for the business he Is engaged
| in, but quite common TO see the business
too much for him.
| Success is too often the only real merit
that can be found in a performance.
| don't care how much brains woman
may have, there's lots of times in her III,
that she would be willing TO swop them
all off for beauty y. Weekly.