Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-12-03
DIAMOND DUST.

Report is a quick traveller, but an
unsafe guide.
A great proof of superiority is to
bear with impertinence.
Ink is in the black sea on which
thought rides at anchor.
There are two kinds of geniuses,
the clever and the too clever.
Love labor; if you do not want it
for food, you may for physic.
The art of life is to know how to en-
Joy little and endure much.
Experience takes very high school
wages, but she teaches like no other.
History gives us many illustrious
Williams, but never an illustrious miser.
"The human face is divine, when
not degraded by the vices of society"
at is to live twice, when you can
enjoy the recollection of your former
life"
They who are very indulgent to
themselves seldom have consideration
for others.
The human mind should be aglobe
Of humanity moving on the poles of
truth.
Fashionable society is a merry-go-
round, that first makes us giddy and
then sick.
He who will not reason is a bigot !;
he who cannot is fool; and he who
dares not is a slave.
There is a closer connection between
good sense and good nature than is
commonly supposed.
Look down upon genius and he will
rise to giant-attempt to crush him,
and he will soar to a god.
/ Good intentions will never justify
evil actions; nor will good actions ever
justify evil intentions.
/ Order is the sanity of the mind, the
health Of the body, the peace of the
city, the security of the state.
Some men in the world advance like
crabs, by their notwithstanding
contrary to every one else.
I We may forgive an injury and an
insult; but We cannot endure to be
bored, not even by those we love.
No one can be happy without a
friend, and no one can know what
| friends he has until he is unhappy.
/ Most men take conviction from an
adversary as children do physic, with
u struggle and a shudder.
| Poetry is the natural language of
! all worship. The Bible is full of po-
etry; Homer is full of religion.
| Canting bigotry and caressing criti-
cism are usually the product of obtuse
sensibilities and a pusillanimous will.
Many lofty intellects are like high
mountains, covered with perpetual ice; /;
others of more ardent constitution, use
their fire. like volcanoes for destruction.
70 liberal minded man poverty is
a stimulant. meanness refrigerant,
selfishness an opiate, and ingratitude
a poison.
The true estimation of living is not
to be taken from age, but action; some
die old at forty, others infants at four
score.
There is no saying shocks us so
much as that which we hear very Of
ten, that a man don't no how to pass
his time.
None are more to be pitied than
those who have the means of crafty
ing their desires before they have
learned to govern them.
1t is not all joy which produces
laughter, the greatest enjoyments are
serious. The pleasures of love, ambi-
ton, or avarice, make nobody laugh.
Happiness doats on her works, and
prodigal of her favorite. AS drop
Of water hath an attraction for anoth-
er, so do felicities.
Since the generality of persons act
from impulse, much more than from
principle, men are neither 80 good nor
SO bad as we are apt to think them.
Industry, economy, and prudence
are the sure forerunners Of success
They create that admirable combina-
ton of powers in one which always
conduce to eventual prosperity.
1t were strange fancy to build the
human character of the model of the
four great orders of architecture, yet
probity is firm bnt simple as the Dor
ic, pride of loftier and more elaborate
refinement as the Tuscan. Generosi-
ty, with the beauty and grace of the
Ionic, and love, excelling with Corinth-
ian excellence, possessing the strength
Of all, equalled in exquisite ornament
by none.
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