Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13
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A pump.
The milk of human kindness will
sour in time.
Its a fraud to borrow what we are
not able to repay.
There are more good sayings than
doings in this world.
Advise not what is most pleasant,
but what is most useful.
Aptness to discover and report
faults is a very common gift.
The best education one can obtain
is the education experience gives.
Everywhere endeavOr to be useful,
and everywhere you are at home.
The Pope has counted his jubilee
money, and finds that it nets $4,000
900.
Beecher lectures in the West in
October. Subject. ABBd Bread ard
Water"
Why not speak good of good man
once in while, before he is gone for
good?
He who will not be satisfied with a
competency. win not be with re-
bundancy.
Habit is a cable. We weave a
thread of it every day, and at last we
cannot break it.
A good nose for hearsay and
quick ear for slander are very Ordi-
nary endowments.
He who is the slowest in making
promise is generally the most faithful
in the performance of it.
A good life hath but a few days,
but a good name endureth forever.
Have regard to thy name.
The friendship of an artful man, is
mere selfinterest; you viii get moth
ing, and may lose much by it.
IF we had no faults ourselves, we
should not have SO much pleasure in
discovering the faults of others.
/ No charity should be extended to
those who are not as willing to do
Justice as they are to receive it.
Experience" ," says Jean Paul Rich
| ter, ''is the best schoolmaster, but the
school-fees are somewhat heavy"
They are generally better satisfied
whom Fortune has never favored
than those whom she has forsaken.
/ Virtue does not give talents, but it
supplies their place. Talents neither,
give virtue nor supply the place of it.
As sharp and nipping winters do to
the earth, so do affections do to the
heart-they mellow it and make it
fruitful.
Children are unconscious philosO-
pliers. They refuse to pull to pieces
their enjoyments to see what they are
made Of
Buy not, sell not, where Selfrespect
is bartered, for that once lost the
main-spring of honor is rusted and de-
eayed.
It is only by labor that thought
can be made health, and only by
thought that labor can be separated
with impunity.
The idea of heaven and an exist
! ence hereafter is no more extraordi-
nary than the fact of an earth and an
existence here.
Where one youth depends on his
mental ability for success in life, nine
rest their hopes on the cut and gloss of
their collars.
The current coin of life is plain,
sound sense. We drive more sub
stantial and thriving trade with that
than with aught else.
In general, it is not very difficult
for little minds to attain splendid stu
ations. It is much more difficult for
great minds to attain the place to
which their mind fully entities them
Baron de Grimm.
We may be sure Of finding that all
periods Of life have their eOmpensa-
tions. If our existence is a journey
we may believe that the part of it
which lies nearest to our destination
will not be barren of joy.
The pleasures of this world are de-
ceitful. They promise more than
they give. They trouble us in seek
ing them, they do not satisfy us when
possessing them, and they make us
despair in losing them.
The table of life is abundantly sup
piled. FIVE don't eat so fast, it will
taste the better; if we don't eat too
much, we shall be better nourished if
we don't snatch, there will be enough
for ALL c. G. Anses.
The theatre has often been at vari-
ance with the pulpit; they ought not
to quarrel. How much it is to be
wished that in both the celebration of
nature and of God were entrusted to
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