Middletown transcript., 1877-07-28
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viii.
Education is the chief defense Of
nations.
We should be honorable, even to
our enemies.
No mortal can be esteemed happy
till the end of life.
Boston is largely engaged in ship
ping butter to Europe.
Some people are just ike buggy
wheel-always tired.
It's easy finding reasons why other
folks should be patient.
National enthusiasm is the great
nursery ofgenius.
How difficult it is for a suffering man
to be good man.
A great heart is as quick to find an
other as the world is slow.
Never turn a blessing around to see
whether it has dark side to it.
The wiaest man is generally he who
thinks himself the least 50.
If you wish to be happy, keep busy.
Idleness is harder work than plough
ing.
Whatever beauty may be, it has for
its basis order, and for its essence.
unity.
The saddest failures in life come
from the not putting forth of the power
to succeed.
He that does good for Gods sake
seeks neither praise nor reward, though
sure of both.
With clear eye and an upright
heart, resist every temptation and
every wrong
Japan is making rapid strides. The
streets Of Toxic and Osaka are now
lighted with gas.
Mean spirits under disappointment,
like small beer in a thunder storm,
always turn sour.
If the world did but know the worth
of good men, they would hedge them
ahout with nearls
To tell is not sufficient; to show is
of great advantage; but to train is the
grand secret of success.
There are no less than one hundred
and sixty different religious denomina-
tions in the United States.
Always speak well Of the dead, and
once in while good word Of the liv-
ing if you have the time.
There are few wild beasts more to
be dreaded than q communicative man
with nothing to communicate.
He is the best gentleman that is the
son of his own deserts. and not the de-
generated heir of another's virtue.
A proper secrecy is the only mys-
terry of able men mystery is the only
secrecy of weak and cunning ones
Our thoughts are epOehs in our
lives; all else is but a journal of the
winds that blow while we are here.
In New England says a New Eng
lander, probably not over one in FIVE
of the people habitually attend church.
Some goodness is ike the glow worm
in this, that it shines most when no
eyes, except those of heaven, are upon
it.
That only can with prOpriety be
styled refinement which, by strength
ening the intellect, purifes the man
ners.
Men are guided less by conscience
than by glory, and yet the shortest
way to glory is to be guided by con-
science.
The wise men Of old have sent most
of their morality down the stream of
time in the light skiff of apothegm or
epigram.
Human life is a gloomy chamber, in
which the images of the other world
shine the brighter, the deeper it is
darkened.
1t is safer to afront some people
than to oblige them for the better
man deserves, the worse they viii
speak of him.
It is not until we have passed
through the furnace that we are made
to know how much dross was in our
composition.
Science is a good piece of furniture
for man to have in an upper chamber
provided he has common sense on the
ground floor
Never was a sincere word utterly
lost, never magnanimity fell to the
ground there is some heart always to
greet and accept it unexpectedly.
Be firm, but be not too hasty to de-
eide. Weigh well before you act but
having weighed, act promptly and
abide the result. This is the test of
judgment.
People who contend that the coun-