Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-08-18
Nuggets of Wisdom.

| HESS.
WHY is the sun like a good loaf?
Because it's light when it rises.
Do LEWIS says that high living is the
foundation OF every cemetery.
IHE ruins of a house may be re-
paired; why cannot those of the face p
La Fontaine.
WOMEN do not disapprove their
rivals !; they hate them.-James Par
ton. sysaxssa
That is the briefest and sagest of
maxlms which bids to 'smeddle not
Coulton.
CURIo sITY is as much the parent of
attention as attention is of memory
Whately.
IHE stars hang bright above, silent.
as # they watched the sleeping earth.
-Coleridge.
SWEET is the breath of morn: her ris-
ing sweet with charm of earliest bird -
Milton.
PLEASURES are the peoples spread;
you seize the flower, it's bloom is shed.
Burns.
MUCH more may Judge overweight
himself III cruelty than in clemency.-
Sir P. Sidney
In order to improve the mind, we
ought less to learn than to contemplate.
j-Descartes.
1t is easy to criticise an author, but
1t is difficult to appreciate him.-Vau-
vernargus.
TULL was not so eloquent as thou.
thou nameless column with the buried
base.-Byron.
HE broken eggshell of civilization
which time has Matched and devoured.
Julia Ward Howe.
OF all the paths leading to woman's
love, pity is the straig htest-Beanmont
and Fletcher.
The court does not render man con-
tented, but it prevents his being so else
'where.-Bruyere.
THE soul without imagination is what
an observatory would be without an tel
escope.-Beecher.
A BEAM of comfort, like the moo
through clouds, gilds the black horror
anu directs my way.-Dryden.
MAKE yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure that there is one
LET us fill urns with rose leaves in
for Observation-Disclosures Lytton.
FRAME thy mind to mirth and merri-
ment, which bar a thousand harms and
lengthen life.-Sbakspeare.
The purity of the critical ermine,
like that of the judicial, is often soiled
by contact with politics. -Whipple.
R1eoR pushed too far is sure to miss
it's aim, however good, as the bow
snaps that is bant too stiHy.-Schiller
The measure of civilization in peo-
|ple is to be found in its just apprecia-
tion of the wrongfulness of war;
Helps. e..5.....f.fr....
STATELY spring whose robe folds are
valleys, whose breast bouquet is gar
dens, and whose blush is vernal evening.
Richter. .,5
IT shocks mo to think. how much
mischief almost every man may do,
who will but resolve to do. all he can
Sterne.
| IT is not our criminal actions that re-
! quire courage to confess, but those
which are ridiculous and foolish
Rousseau.
SUPERSTITION changes a man to
beast, fanaticism makes him a wild
beast, and despotism q beast of burden.
La Harpe.
WHAT are RaphaePs Madonnas but
the shadow of a mothers love, fixed in
permanent outline forever. II. W. Hig-
gibson.
AS no roads are so rough as those
that have just been mended. so no sim
ners arc so intolerant as those thar have
just turned saints. Colton.
+ PLATE sin with gold, rand the strong
lance Of justice, hurtless breaks; arm It
IN rags, pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Shakespeare. 'f'i''ii7i'sii2
THERE are a few wild beasts more to
be dreaded than a communicative man
with nothing. to communicate. NJ. de
I Ronald. : ~.'>a ''i5 iAls
CAN'T there be any greater dotage in
I the world thansfofs one to, guide and di-
rect his courses by the, sound Of bell,
|. and not by his own Judgment and dis
cretion ?-Rabelais. u
( He was one Of those men, moreover,
who possess almost every gift except
the gift Of the power to use them
Charles Kingsley.
| ~ WE take cunning for sinister or
crooked wisdom; and certainly there is
a great difference between cunning
man and wise man, not only in point
of honesty, but in point of ability
Bacon.
R1D1cU1E is weak weapon when lev
eled at strong mind; but common men
are towards, and dread an empty laugh.
Topper. .'a
IT is more than possible that those
who have neither character nor honor
may be wounded in very tender part,
the interest -Junius. ts
WISE men are Instructed by reason,
less intelligent men BY experience, the
most ignorant by necessity, and animals
by instinct Cicero. fsn
For man learns more readily and re-
members more willingly what excites his
| ridicule than what deserves esteem and