Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-11-29
words NJ Wisdom.
The only source Of wealth is labor.
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A fine coat may cover a fool but never
conceal one.
Sorrow shows us truths as the night
brings out stars.
Iaziness travels so slowly that poverty
soon oVertakes her.
There is in every human eountenance
either history or a prophecy.
All the passions makeus commit faults,
but love makes Us guilty Of the most
ridiculous ones.
A legacy is the posthunous despatch
affection sends to gratitude to inform Us
we have lost kind friend.
Wisdom is the olive which springeth
from the heart, bloOmeth on the tongue,
and beareth fruit in the actions
Educate the whole mantle head,
the heart, the body; the head to think,
the heart to feel, and the body to act.
The base metal of falsehood is so cur
rent because we find it much easier to
alloy the truth than to refine ourselves.
Harsh words are like hailstones in
summer, which, if melted, would fertil-
ize the tender plants they batter down.
As the sword of the best-tempered
metal is the most flexible, so the truly
generous are the most plant and court
eous.
Hurry and cunning are always run
ming after dispatches and wisdom, but
have never yet been able to overtake
them.
One doubt solved by yourself viii
open your mind more, by exercising its
powers, than the solution of many by
another.
As continued health is vastly prefer
able to the happiest recovery from sick
ness, so is innocence to the truest re-
pentance.
There is no greater obstacle to success
than trusting in something to turn up,
instead Of going 10 work to turn up
something.
There is a meaning in all things, even
virtue itself hath its state of limits,
which not being strictly observed, it
ceases to be virtue.
1t is happy enough that the same
vices which impairs ones fortune fire.
uuently ruin the constitution, that the
one may not survive the other.
"A Milwaukee man drank 8 quart of
ice water to get cool. And his friends
don't know but that he would like some
more ice watet where he is now
"Your room is better than your COM
pany," as the examiner of a bankrupt
insurance corporation said to its presi-
dent as he glanced at the elegant offices.
To the young American, there is
majestic difference in the weight
between the butt-end of fish pole and
4 hoe handle.
The best putty for repairing broken
walls or ceilings is composed of equal
parts of whiting and plaster-of-Par
since it quickly hardens and the walls
may be Immediately eolored upon it.
"A head equal to the greatest events,
and a heart superior to the strongest
temptations, are qualities which may be
possessed so secretly that mans next
door neighbor shall not discover them
until some unforeseen occasion calls them
forth.
Canvas suspenders now seem to be
worn by most all ladies. There's no
agiVe" to them, and that's the reason
you occasionally hear button fly Off
when lady grabs for her skirt. Now
they will be called canVas-backed ducks
wors'n ever
The triumph of woman lies not In
the admiration of her lover, but in the
respect of her husband, and that only
can be gained by constant cultivation
Of those qualities which she knows he
most values.
As a physical bad taste consists in
being pleased only with high seasoning
and curious dishes, so bad taste in the
arts is pleased only with studied orna-
ment, and is insensible to the pure
beauties of nature.
It is one of the singular facts of the
present state of society, that the qualities
which in theory we hold to be most
lovely and desirable, are precisely those
which in practice we treat with the
greatest contumely and disdain.
He that has never known adversely is
but half acquainted with others, or with
himself Constant success shows US but
one side Of the world. For, as it sur
rounds US with friends who will tell us
only our merits, 80 It silences those
enemies from whom alone We can learn
our defects.
-"Captain, we are entirely out Of
ammunition" said an orderly sergeant
to his commander on feld-day. "Whatl
entirely out of ammunition Y' exclaimed
the captain. tYes, entirely out,n was
the reply, "Then cease firing" peremp-
torily said the captain.
Ben Wade, when he was travelling
westward, interviewed a lank country.
man pedding cakes at a small station in
the alkai region.
TWell, .yas, stranger, I low we've got
jes as fine patch p' country as can be
fetched in AmerieY, , kalculate all we
need Il wafer and oood society"