The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-27
Words Of Wisdom.

Duty cannot be plain in two diverging
paths.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road
to error.
Only the astrologer and the empyric
never fail.
Poverty makes some humble but more
malignant.
There is nothing more frightful than
bustling ignorance.
A tedious writer is one who uses MANY
words to little purpose. ...
All religion and all ethics are sum-
moned up ip "Justice."
The magic of the tongue is the most
dangerous of all spells.
Active natures are rarely melancholy.
Activity and melancholy are incompati-
BILE.
Show naughty man that you do not
look up to him, and he will not feel that
he can look down upon you.
The character of any particular people
may be looked for with best success in
their national works of talent.
Talk of fame and romance-all the
glory and adventure in the world, are not
worth one hour of domestic bliss.
One can never by chance hear the rat
Ting of dice that it doesn't sound to him
like the funeral bell of whole family.
An avaricious man is like q sandy
desert, that sucks in all the rain. but
yields no fruitful herbs to the inhabi-
tants.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm swarms of
insects will surround you in the sun
shine.
Amongst men of the world comfort
merely signifies great consideration for
themselves, and a perfect Indifference
about others.
OF governments, that of the mob is
most sanguinary, that of soldiers the
most expensive, and that OF civilians the
most vexatious.
There is not one among us that would
not be worse than kings, if so continually
corrupted as they are with a sort of ver-
min called fatterers.
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme
passion. This doth make them fools
which otherwise are not, and show them
| to be fools that are so.
There is nothing so ravishing to the
proud and the great with all their re-
sources for enjoymenD as to be thought
happy by their interiors.
Education is better safeguard of lib.
erty than standing army. If we re-
trench the wages of the schoolmaster we
must raise those of the recruiting ser.
geant.
A proper and iudicious system of read,
| ing is of the highest Importance. Two
things are necessary in perusing the
mental labors of others namely, not to
read too much, and to pay attention to
the nature of what you do read. Many
persons peruse books for the expressed
and avowed purpose of consuming time
and this class of readers forms by fan
the majority of what are termed the
" reading public" Others, again, read
with the laudable anxiety of being made
wiser and when this object is not at
tanned the disappointment may generally
be attributed, either to the habit of read
ing too much, or of paying insufficient
attention to what falls upon their notice
The sweetest, the most clinging affec
ton is often shaken by the slightest
breath OF unkindness, as the delicate
rings and tendrils of the vine agitated by
the finest air that blows in summer
/ An unkind word from one beloved Otter
draws blood from many heart which
would defy the battle-ax of hatred or the
keenest edge of vindictive satire. Nay
the shade, the gloom of the face familiar
and dear, awakens grief and pain. Those
are the little thorns which, though mel
of rougher form may make their way
through them without feeling much, ex
tremely incommode persons Of more
refined turn in their journey through
life, and make their travelling irksome
and unpleasant.