Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-24
Little Wanderers.
afforded.

have al ways noticed that those who
were the best at precept were often the
poorest at practice, and those who
were best at practice were poorest al
precept.
Most people love to be praised, and
some are SO fond of il that they will take
it from those whose praise is disgrace
to anybody.
Those who have real merit are seldom
proud of it, and often even unconscious
of it.
There are just as many joys in this world
as SORROWS, and we can find them just as
easy if we will only hunt for them
meet but few natural people; this
don't astonish me, for it requires good
deal of brains to be natural.
1t is good judgment to enjoy life as we
go along; we amt sure of old age, and
If we were, old age is no time for enjoy
ment.
The man who has never been tempted
can't tell anywhere near how much vir-
tue he has got in him.
There are but few things that pay so
well on the investment as politeness
it gratifes our vanity and don't cost
anything.
The really wise are always astonished
at how little they know.
We all of us charge our plumbers on
something or somebody else-if shoe
maker makes a misfit he always blames
the foot but not the boot.
Man must have been especially created
to paddle his own canoe, for we see no.
body snubbed SO often as the person
who is always anxious to help somebody
else.
When man has lost all his property
he generally loses all his friends, and the
world doesn't hesitate TO say they always
knew he was cussed fool.
Truth is very compact, but a lie must
have plenty of room or it will smother.
Imitators only interest US for a short
time; to make a great success man
must either be original or improve on
others.
Reading is the means, but thinking is
the end, of knowledge.
The poorest kind of religion that a
man can have is the kind that he is all
the time Dragging about.
There are great many individuals in
this world who expect to reach heaven,
not on any particular merit of their own,
The best way to satisfy yourself, and
others, too, is to mind your own business
One great disadvantage In being an
habitual liar is that when man does
actually tell the truth he don't get credit
for it only at the rate of fifty cents on
tie dollar.
We often hear of men "who know
more than they can TELL" and once in a
Il. xaylar.
tell more than he knows.
Energy and judgment are what tell.
There have been, and always will be,
just as many failures in a good cause as a
bad one, If they amt handled right.
Poverty is a great blessing to some
folks.
I always think it is good taste, and
also good judgment, when man prays
for the sins of the people, to count him
self in.
| have heard it said that adversely is a
great deal safer for man than pros
perity, and guess 1t is, especially IL the
man is fool.
1t is no disgrace for man to fall, but
to lay there and grunt is.
If you want to get into a tight spot,
where you can't back out nor go ahead,
be the confidant of half dozen sets of
secrets; you might as well undertake to
help one hornets nest break up another
and expect not to get stung by the whole
of them.
The man who is always anxious to tell
all he knows will soon run out of stock
and begin to tell what he don't know
Those people who cheat themselves
are always easiest to be cheated by
others.
This life is one of disappointments,
and the only way j know of to avoid
them is to expect nothing.
The man who listens has the man who
talks in his power.-Josh Billings, in ~
Y. Weekly.