Middletown transcript., 1876-06-17
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Be friend to yourself, and others
will. ia
"A man may talk like wise man and
act like fool.
Pleasure and sorrow are twins
Daniel Cdacdry.
Poverty is in want Of much, but ava
rice Of everything.
The good Is always beautiful; the
beautiful is always good.
There is no tomorrow which cannot
be be convented into to-day.
A fool may make money. but Il re-
quires wise man to spend it.
If you would know. and mot BE-
known, live in . city.-Colton.
Poverty is the test Of civility and the
touchstone Of friendship. HazliH.
One never needs ones wits 80 much
as when one has to do with fool"
To manage men one ought to have
sharp mind in velvet sheath.
Even in war moral power is to phys
ical as three parts out of four.-Napo-
leon.
He that knows useful things, and mot
be that knows many things, il the wise
man.
We had better appear to be what We
are than affect to appear what We are
not. #-.3 isef fs
Let all your things have their pisces;
let each part Of your business have its
times.
It is ascertained that the Great Un-
known Is the business man who doesn't
advertise. ~
It is true wisdom to speak but little
of the injuries you have received or the
good deeds you have done.
Excess of, ceremony shows want Of
breeding that civility il best which ex-
cludes all superduous formality.
The noise Of cannon has been heard
at distance Of more than $50 miles BY
applying the ear to the solid earth.
Orthodoxy is the Bourbon Of the
world Of thought. Il learns not, nei-
ther can it forgst.-Hxaaey.
( Earthly pride is like q passing flow
er, springs but to fall. and blossoms
but to die.-H. K. White.
There are some kinds of men who
cannot pass their time alone. They
are the fails Of occupied people.
Help others when you can. bat never
give what you cannot afford. simply be-
cause it is fashionable.
There is wide deal of difference be-
tween the confidence which becomes a
man, and the simplicity which disgraces
fool. ~ s.' 7''s 2 s'''.0'f7 -
When we fancy that we have grown
wiser, it is only, in many instances,
that new preJudices have taken the
places of old ones. -
We must not deceive ourselves, for
be that overcometh not himself in little
| matters will not be able to do 20 in
great things.
Complaints Of the ravages of the Col
orado beetle upon the potato vines have
become general throug ghout New Eng
land IS we'll as in the Middle States.
After casting glance at our own
weakness, how easily does our vanity
console itself by deploring the infrmi-
ties of our friends
Death is as near to the young as the
old here is all the difference Death
stands behind the young mans back,
before the old mans face.
Until the reign of the Empress jose
phine, handkerchief was thought in
France so shocking an object that q
lady would never dare to use it before
anyone.
Help and give willingly, when you
have anything, and think not the more
of yourself; and if You have nothing,
keep the cup Of cold water always at
hand, and think not less Of yourself.
What deduction from reason can ever
apply to love? Love is very contra
diction of all the elements of our ordi-
nary nature; it makes the proud man
meek-the the cheerful sad-and the
high-spirited tame.
The largest feet known to history
must be those Of the Maryland editor
who writes 1--WE black our boots
with 100000 boxes Of domestic
backing year"
The last best fruit which comes to
late perfection, even in the kindliest
soul, is tenderness towards the hard,
forbearance towards the unforbearing,
warmth of heart towards the cold, phi
lanthropy towards the misanthropic.
He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest. Il is your cold. dis
sembling hypocrite Of whom you should
beware There's no deception in q
bulldog. It is only the cur that sneaks
by and bites you when your back is
turned.
Though sometimes small evils, like
invisible insects, infict pains. and .
single hair may stop vast machine,
yet the chief secret of comfort lies in
not suffering triaes to vex one. and in
prudently cultivatiug an underground
Of small pleasures.
A mother mourning at her first born's
grave, or closing the eyes Of child in
death, displays grief whose very sa-
credness is sublime. But bitter, heavier
than the stroke. is the desperation Of
son who rushes over a crushed heart,
into vices which he would hide even
from the abandoned and vile.
Sociability in churches is avery inn
portant element Of Christianity. Many
q man has been saved by some one sim
ply taking him BY the hand and ex-
nrasainp ordinary interest In his vel.