The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-16
PROVERBS OF TRUTH.

PROVERBS OF TRUTH.
A bad workman quarrels with his tosls.
Adversity aattereth no man.
fault confessed is half redressed.
After breakfast work awhile.
After dinner SIT while.
A'ter supper walk mile
wise layer-up Is wise layer out.
A good name keeps It's lustre In the dark.
guilty conscience needs no accuser.
light purse Is heavy curse.
A little leak will sink big ship.
All are not friends that speak Of us fair.
All lay loads on the willing horse.
man may hold his tongue at the wrong tImO
man may buy gold too dear.
Always put your saddle on the right horse.
An honest mans word is as good as his bond.
An hour in the morning Is worth two in the ar
ternoon.
An oak tree Is not felled In one blow.
A nod from a lord is breakfast for fsol.
An ounce Of mother wit is worth pound OF
book learning.
An unlawful oath is better broken than kept.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
Be slow to promise but quick to perform.
Better go around than fall In ditch.
Better go alone than In bad company.
Better go to bed supperless than to get up In
debt.
Borrowed clothes never fit.
Charity begins at home but does not end there.
Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
Dependence is poor trade to follow.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Diligence commands success.
Doing nothing is doing i'll.
Do not rip up old sores
Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you.ss
Everybodys business is nobody's business.
Every couple is not a pair.
Everything is good in its season.
False friends are worse than open enemies.
Fire and water are good servants but bad mas
ters.
Fortune knocks once at least at every mans
gate.
Give rogue rope enough and he will hang
himself
Great tbarkers are no biters.
Great pain and little pain makes man weary.
Have your cloak made before 1t begins to rain.
Hope is a good breakfast but bad supper.
Idle folks have the least leisure.
Let not your tongue cut your throat.
Live not to eat but eat to live.
Liars are not to be believed even when they tell
he truth.
Make hay while the sun shines.'
Never light your candle at both ends
Never make mountain out Of a mole hill.
Never split wood against the grain.
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
One bad example spoils many good precepts.
One hours sleep before midnight is worth two
Ifter.
One is not so soon healed as hurt.
Patieuce and time run through the longest day.
Praise fair day at night
Quick at meat quick at work.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Short reckonings make long friends
Strike while the iron is hot.
Temperance is the best physic.
The best physicians are DR.. Diet, Dr. Quiet and
Dr. Merryman,
'Tis the second blow that makes the fray
Welcome is the best cheer.
When the will Is ready the foot is light.
Where there is a will there is way.
What may be done at any time is never done.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Strive to avoid hard words and personalities.
Under our great troubles often lie our greatest
.easures,
Ifthou faint in the day Of adversely thy strength
small.
Poverty treads upon the heels Of great and un.
xpected riches. 3
True happiness costs little Hit be dear 1t Isnot
good quality,
He who knows not when to be silent knows not
hen to speak.
We lie to God in prayer If we do not rely upon
i'm after prayer.
Impatlence Of study is the mental disease ofthe
resent generation.
"Meau souls, like mean pictures, are often found
good looking frames"
There is always room for q man Of force, and
Q makes room for many.
"Those who trample on the helpless are dis
,sed to cringe to the poWerfcl."
mot to be susceptible of kindness shows either
hard heart or bad usage"
The shsrpest torments are said to be those caus-
by trouble that never comes.
Mankind worship success, bat think too little
the means by which 1t is attained.
The fool clamors that he is as wise as the sage
I'd the sage shrinks from saying that 1t Is not so.
Have the courage to speak your mind when Ii
necessary to do so, and hold your tongue when
is prudent that you should do so.
We cannot walk side by side with people of true
,bity of character without becoming ourselves
sVated and ennobled.
One should meet death as resolutely as gener-
would an inevitable conqueror This is the
st way to obtain easy conditions.