Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-11-01
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Great barkerS are not biters.
Blessed are they Who work for then
selves.
Great gain and little pain makes ma
w:.',y.
Fire and water are good servants, bu
bad masters.
Anticipation of evil is the death G
happiness.
Give a rogue rope enough and he vii
:lang himself.
1t is better to follow a mans adyic,
;.n his example.
Little expenses, like mice in the barn
when they are many, make great waste
People who fish foi compliments dc
not need long lines. They will get theil
best bites in shallow wafer.
One of the most fatal temptations to
The weak is slight deviation from the
truth, for the sake of apparent good.
A mans real value is not only what he
is worth to the generation in which he lives
but what he is worth to the generations
that follow him.
There are those who never reason on
what Trey should do, but on what they
have done; as if reason had bis ewes
corrupt companion, one loose principle.
may wreck all your prospects, and all
hopes of those that love you.
-Straws swim upon the surface, but
pearls lie at the bottom. Snowy parts
strike every common eye, but solid ones
ere only to be discovered by the most ac-
curate observers of the human head and
human he:rt.
There is nothing said Plato, $50
delightful rs tie hearing or speaking OF
TRUTH For this reason there is no con-
yersation so agreeable as that of the man
of integrity, who hears without any intcn-
ton to betray, and speaks without any in
tention to deceive.
Learning that the crops of member
whose entire family was prostrated by
sickness, were likely to be lost for want OF
gathering, the Good Templars, male and
female. of Starrsville, S. G., to the number
of eighty, turned out. and by working
han an entire day saved the produce.
With clear sky, a bright sun, and
gentle breeze, you can have friends in plen
tv: but let fortune frown and the firfna
ment be overcast, and then your friends
will prove like the strings of u lutte.
which you will tighten before you will flint
one that will bear the stretch and keep tn
pitch.
| Genius is never in advance Of the az
in which it lives, and the true poets ant
orators of to-day must reap their harves
of glory long after their sowing is ended
for every generation is influenced NOR
by the eloquence and enthusiasm that ha
preceded it, than by that of its own time
Those who are in the power OF ev
habits must conquer them if they can
and conquered they must be, or neithe
wisdom or happiness can be attained; bu
those who are not yet subject to their IL
E fluence may, by timely caution, preserv
, their fl ieedom they may effectually resolV
to escape the tyrant, whom they Will yer
vainly resolve to conquer.
Life is itself neither good nor evil;
is the scene of either good or evil, as yo
: make it,; and if you have lived day 70
J have seen all; one day is equal and like
all other days; there is no other light,
! other shade; this very sun, this mool
: these very stars, this very order and rev
: luton Of things, is the same your ance
E tors enjoyed, and that shall also enterta
your posterity.
Whatever happens, never forsake
? friend. when enemies gather, when sic
:, ness falls upon the heart, when the wor
;. is dark and cheerless, is the time to Il
!, true friendship. They who turn from Il
: scenes of distress betray their hypocris
t and prove that self-interest only NOV
n them. If you have friend who loves yo
d who has studied your interest and hapl
k ness. be sure to sustain him in adversit
t Let him feel that his love was not throw
n away. Real fidelity may be rare, but it e
d ists-in the heart. They only deny
worth and power who never loved q ffiel
9 or labored to make friend happy.
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