Middletown transcript., 1876-07-01
lDarietirs.
One may do without mankind, but
one has need of friend

lii fortune never crus0ed tnat man
whom good fortune deceived not.
He who can suppress a moments
anger may prevent days Of sorrow.
There are many Of the greatest deeds
done in the small struggles Of life.
Many adorn the tombs of those whom,
living, they prosecuted with envy.
A clear conscience is the best law,
and temperance the best physic.
By trusting your own. soul you shall
gain greater confidence in men. =
In what key would lover write
proposal Of marriage BE mine, ah
Rest would be torture If weariness
did not make the bed sweet for her
coming. sssi'
The heart too often, like the cement
of the ancient Romans, acquires hard
ness by time.
The vacant skull of pendant gen.
orally furnishes out throne and tom
vanity.
George Eliot's .'Daniel Deronda"
has sold to the extent Of 40. 600 copies
in England. ss 4aaa n
A girls best chances of marriage are
while she is between twenty -one and
twenty-five.
London thieves carry piece Of coal
in the pocket, believing that it gives
them good luck.
A thousand parties Of pleasure do
not leave recollection worth that of
one good action. "a
The excesses of our youth are drafts
upon old age, payable with interest,
about fifty years after date.
Cosmetics are to the face what afec-
tation is to the manners they impose
on few and disgust many.
One may be decorous without being
chaste; but one cannot be chaste with
out being decorous. m
The test of success is success, and
the horse died when he succeeded in
living without oats.
Shut not up brood of evil passions
in your bosom like cnraged serpents,
they will bite their cage. 81
If you would be known and not
know. vegetate in a village; if you
would know and not be known. live in
city.
Virtue does not give talents, but it
supplies their place Talents neither
give virtue nor supply the place Of it.
Dupes, indeed. are many; but ofall
dupes there is none SO fatally situated
as be who lives in undue terror Of being
du2ed.
Character doesn't depend on Diet
The ass eats thistles and nettles. the
sharpest of food, and is the dullest Of s
the animals.
After casting glance at our own
weakness, how easily does our vanity
console itself by deploring the in6rmi-
ties Of our friends.
Death is as near the young as the
old; here is all the difference; death
stands behind the young mans back,
before the old mans face.
When a woman throws q brickbat,
the great problem seems to be. othow
to bit the mark, but how to avoid
knocking her brains out with her elbow.
Seeds of the mahogany tree, sown
four years ago on the island Of Mauritius,
have produced trees twenty feet high
and from three to six inches through
the trunk.
Education consists in the ideas and
facts gained and properly classified by
| the learner. It does not consist in the
repetition of memorized rules, defini-
tions, and descriptions.
Beware of con6ding in distant pros
poets of happiness, lest they be suddenly
intercepted by the most trivial present
vexation. A leaf in the foreground is
large enough to conceal forest on the
far horizon.
Let those who are appointed to judge
of the characters Of others bear in mind
their own imperfections, and rather
strive by sympathy to soften the pang
arising from a conviction Of guilt, than
by Misrepresentation to increase it.
Would a man frequently calculate
his income and expenditure, he would
escape many bitter reflection for he
must be lost to every generous feeling
of pride and honorable principle who
wantonly incurs debts, which he cannot
discharge.
He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest. 1t is your cold, dis
sembling hypocrite of whom you should
beware. There's no deception in a
bulldog. 1t is only the cur that sneaks
by and bites you when your back is
turned.
We continue to hear Of striped stock
ings doing harm to their wearers. But
it isn't the stripes; it is. the poisonous
materials they are dyed with. Striped
stocking are better than those that are
all one color. provided the dye is the
same in both.
There are persons who may be called
fortunate, if not elect namely, those
who. from the felicity of their natural
constitutions, desire only what is good;
who act for love, and show pure morality
in their actions. In these beings the
superior feelings rule those common to
men and animals.
The peach was originally poisoned
almond. Its Aeshy parts we're used
to poison arrows. and the fruit was for
this purpose introduced into Persia
The transportation and cultivation,
however. not only removed its poison
Gus qualities, but produced the delicious
fruit we now enjoy.
Economy is the parent Of integrity,
of liberty and of ease and the sister