The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-12
Josh Billings Philosophy.

A GOOD listener will please more peo-
pie than a good talker will.
Most people would rather believe
what amt so than confess their igno-
rance. l.. .-H.t
A certain amount of pride is very
proper; a peacock without any pride at
all would be a dead loss.
Cunning never won lasting victory
yet. ~
How many people there are in this
world who have just brains enough to
doubt, and to differ but not enough to
decide
When anybody wants to sell then is
the time to buy, and when anybody
wants to buy then is the time to sell.
You will find plenty of friends in this
world who are ready to divide the profits
of villainy with you, but not one who is
willing to stand a share of the loss.
1t requires great stamina Of character
to be successful fool
If we would increase in wisdom, we
have got to forget large share of what
we think we know. .. .a.. ...
Mankind can be sorted out in this way:
Those few who regulate their actions by
the dictates of their own conscience;
those many who are regulated BY the
conscienCes of others, and the balance
whom nothing nor nobody can regulate.
A good intention is better than an in
different action.
There is one thing that even old age
can't cheat US out of, and that is the
memory of a good action.
The great blessing of adversely is, it
gives our enemies a chance to pitch into
US and our friends chance to defend US.
The best time to ask advice of your
neighbors is after you have made up
your mind just what you are going to
do.
20 Pity is most generally wasted; it Is so
often spent on the sensible. IN JOS
There may be some perfectly happy
people in this world, but they can't
prove it. ......... .............r
Experience is about all that old age
can boast of, and how often is this of
the bitterest kind.
The literature of the world is full of
moral precepts, and the reason. why they
do so little good is because most people
are anxious to apply them to their neigh
bors and not to themselves.
"The way of the transgressor is. hard"
and there amt no transgressor agoing to
beat it, either. }.+ 49, .. ttI'l.t
1t is actually easier to earn two dollars
and half than to take care of one after
you have earned it.
Mankind generally talk fondly of their
honesty, and Judgment, and yet there
are no two things in their natures they
are less certain of.
| never have known an Individual who
was anxious to excel in everything that
really amounted to much.
An illustrious pedigree is risky pos
session; the world won't compare YOU
with yourself, but are all the time COM
pairing you with the skeleton of your
grandfather
lie who can control his anger gains
two victories-one over himself and the
other over his opponent. ......... .,
L The man who expects in his old age to
be taken care of by the world because
his life has been spent in their amuse-
ment or instruction, reasons like fool,
and will starye like one, too. O. .ai ig..
lg The man who writes bad book is
worse than the one who poisons a spring;
the spring will run itself pure in time,
but the book Testers and corfupts for all
time. ...E Htt.T ..rl1ai..'0
A glowing epitaph costs but little, and
nobody dares dispute it.-N Y. Weekly.
AN exchange remarks The only
Jokes women like to read are those which
reflect ridicule on men, Yes, On
taking up paper, a woman invariably
turns TO the marriage column.