Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1877-10-09
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i've 1t down.
LOW those who advise, but not those Who
praise you.
ONE ungrateful man does an injury 10 all
who are wretched.
FRoySs blight young children. as frosty
nights blight young plants.
We may as well expect TO grow stronger by
constant eating as wiser by constant reading.
TIE sleep of memory is not its death for.
gotten studies are certain sptitudes gone TO
sleep.
HE vices Of the rich and great are mistak-
en- for errors and those of the poor and lowly
for crimes.
GOOD man viii be doing good whereso-
ever he is His trade Is o compound Of
charity and Justice.
IT Is better to SOW good heart with kind
ness than field with corn, for the hearts
harvest is perpetual.
The eIcesses OF our youth are drafts upon
our old age, payable with interest, about
thirty years after date.
IT is only through woe we are taught TO re-
feet, and we gather the honey Of worldly
wisdom not from flowers, but thorns.
THE current coin of life Is plain sound
sense. We drive a more substantial and
thriving trade with that than aught else.
The welfare of nation. rests upon the
happiness which il enjoys within Itself, and
its independence of all control from with
out.
THE moral courage that will face obloquy
IN good cause is much rarer gift than the
bodily valor that will confront death in bad
one.
As the intellect wastes away, malignity
generally increases. So, when the brain de-
Gays after death, snakes are said 10 breed In
the vacant skull.
VANITY Is our dearest weakness, in more
sense than one; O man will sacrifice every
thing, and starve out all his other inclinations
TO keep alive that one.
The highest point outward things can
bring US 70 Is the contentment of the mind,
with which no estate can be poor, without
which all estates will be miserable.
Nosr> persons are particularly spitsful
against those foibles in others which they
themselves have. They remind US of mon-
key scratching and grinning at the mimic
monkey in the glass
HEyKs sock 10 be entrusted with your
friends secret for no matter how faithfully
you may keep It. you will be liable IN thou
eahd contingencies TO the suspicion Of having
betrayed il.
We ought never to believe evil Of anyone
till we are certain of it. We ought not TO say
anything that is rude and displeasing even in
jokeI and even than We ought not 70 carry
the joke too far.
piRa trust in the assistance OF An Al
mighty Being naturally produces patience,
hope, cheeyfulness, and all other dispositions
Of mind that alleviate those oahmities which
We are not able to remove.
NRvxa was human machine produced
without many trials and failures whereas this
universe, in all its endless complication, vas
perfect at its production. perfected in tho
ideas of its great Author, even from eternity.
HAPPINESS is much more equally divided
than some Of US imagine, and in this point Of
view has been compared to the mamma In the
Desert-"He that gathered much had nothing
over, and he that gathered little had no
lack"
Truth is but the correspondence between
things and our notions of them. To search
after truth, to love it for its own sake are,
therefore, resolvable into loving and striving
for notions that conform perfectly to their
pgototypes. True ideas are aotualities, but
truth is nothing.