The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13
TWELVE GOLDEN MAXIMS.
ON C1NSTANCY.

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thou mayest preserve. Variability is
the badge of infrmity.
ON CONDUCT TOWARD A FRIEND.
Hast thou friend. use him friendly
abuse him not in jest or earnest conceal
his infrmities; privately reprove his er-
rors. Commit thy secrets to him, yet
with caution, least thy friend become thy
enemy and abuse thee Bishop Hall.
HOW TO USE PROPERTY.
So use thy property that adversely
may not abuse thee. If in prosperity
thy security admits no fear, in adver-
sity thy despair will afford no hope; he
that in prosperity can fortell danger
can in adversely see deliverance.
ON SECRET ENEMIES.
He that processes himself thy open
enemy arms thee against the evil he
means thee but he that Ensembles him>
self thy friend, when he is thy secret
enemy, strikes beyond caution and
wounds above cure. From the first thou
mayest deliver thyself, from the last
good Lord deliver thee.
ON ANGER.
Beware of him that is slow to anger,
Anger, when it is long in coming, is the
stronger when it comes and the longer
kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
When fancy is the ground of passion,
that understanding which composes the
fancy qualities the passion; but when
judgment is the ground, the memory is
the recorder and this passion is long re-
tanned.
ON LAW AND PHYsIC.
If thou study law aud physic, endeav-
or to know both and to need neither.
Temperate diet, moderate and reasonable
labor, rest and recreation, with Gods
blessing, will save thee from the physi-
clan peaceful disposition, prudent and
Just behavior, will secure thee from the
law. Yet, if necessity absolutely COM
pei, thou mayest use both; they that use
either otherwise than for necessity soon
abuse themselves into weak bodies and
light pulses.
| CHARITY ALLEGORIxED.
Charity is a naked child giving honey
to bee without wings. Naked, because
excuseless and simple; child, because
pleasant and comfortable; to bee, be.
cause bee is industrious and deserving
without wings, because wanting and help
less. If thou deniest to such thou killest
bee if thou givest to other thsn such
thou preservest drone.
/ ON DIET AND REGIMEN.
. If thou desirest to take the best ad
vantage of thyself, especially in matter
3 where the fancy is mostly employed
t keep temperate diet, use moderate exer
{ else, observe sessonable and set hour
e for rest, and let the end of thy frs
I sleep raise thee from thy repose the
= hath thy body the best temper, tn,
: soul the least incumbrSnce; then n
;. noise shall disturb thine ear no objec
e shall divert thine eye; ken, fever, shal
b. thy sprightly fancy transport thee be
: yond the common pitch, and show th
majorim of high invention.
> ON COMMUNICATING NEWS
!. Let the greatest part of the news tho
d nearest be the least part of what tho
J, believest, lest the greatest part of wha
;. thou believest be the least part of wha
d is true and report nothing for truth, i
q earnest or in jest, unless thou know i
II or at least confidently believe it to be 81
8 neither is it expedient at all times or i
t all companies to report what thou know
! st to be true; sometimes it may ava
}. thee il thou seem not to know tbs
d which thou knowest. Hast thou any $,
q cret, commit it not to many, ncr to any
unless well known unto thee.
e ON DRESS.
9 In thy apparel avoid profuseness, 81.
gulsrity and gaudiness let it be decent
u and suited to the quality of thy plac
and purse. Too much puDctuality an
P too much morosity are the extremes {
pride. Be neither too early in the fash
l. ion, nor to leng out of it, nor too precise
" in it. What custom hath ciTilize
L hath become decent until then it Wa
. ridiculous. Where the eye is the jury
9 the apparel is the evidence the body
Il the shell of the soul, apparel is the hus
= of that shell, and the husk will ofte
g tell you what that kernel is. Seldor
docs solid wisdom dwell under fantssti
apparel neither will the pantsloon fame
be Injured within the walls of gray
4 habit. The fool is known by his dye
i coat.
r ON CONVERSATION.
f Clothe not thy language either wit
e obscurity or afectstion in the one tho
8 discoverest too much darkness, and i
e the other too much hghtness; he ths
8 speaks from the understanding to tn
9 understanding doth best. Know whe
e to speak, lest while thou shOwest wisdor
: in not speaking, thou betray thy folly i
e too long silence. II thou art a fool, tn
r silence is wisdom; but if thou art wist
thy long silence is folly. As too man
e words from fools mouth give one tina