The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-07
TWELVE GOLDEN MAxIMs.
ON INCONSISTENCY.

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that thou mayest preserve. Variability
Is the badge of infirmity.
ON CONDUCT TOWARD FRIEND.
Hast thou friend, use him friendly
abuse him not in jest or earnest; conceal
MS infirmities; privately reprove his
errors. Commit thy secrets to him, yet
with caution, lest thy friend become thy
enemy and abuse thee.-Bishop Hail.
HOW TO USE PROPERTY.
SO use the property that adversely
may not abuse thee. If in prosperity
thy security admits no fear, in adj
versity thy despair will afford no hope
ne that in prosperity can foreten a
danger can in adversely see deliver
ance.
ON SECRET ENEMIES.
He that Processes himself thy open
enemy arms thee against the evil he
means thee; but he that Ensembles
himself thy friend, when he is thy Sc
cret enemy, strikes beyond caution and
wounds above cure. From the first
thou mayest deliver thyself, from the
hast 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
CHARITY ALLEGORIZED.
Charity is naked child giving honey
to bee without wings. Naked. be-
cause excuseless and simple; child,
because tender and growing; giving
honey, because pleasant and comfort
able; to a bee, because bee is indus
trious and deserving; without wings,
because wanting and helpless. If thou
deniest to such thou killest bee; if
thou givest to other than such thou pre-
servest drone.
ON LAW AND PHYsIC.
If thou study law and physic, en-
deavor to know both and to need
neither. Temperate diet, moderate and
reasonable labor, rest and recreation,
with Gods blessing will save thee from
thy physician; peaceful disposition,
prudent and just behavior, will secure
thee from the law. Yet, if necessity alb
solutely compel. thou mayest use both I;
they that use either otherwise than for
necessity soon abuse themselves into
weak bodies and light purses.
ON DIET AND REGIMEN.
If thou desirest to take the best adj
vantage of myself, especially in matters
where the fancy is mostly employed,
keep temperate diet, use moderate ex-
ercise, observe seasonable and set hours
for rest, and let the end of thy first sleep
raise thee from thy repose; then hath
thy body the best temper; thy soul the
least incumbrance; then no noise shall
disturb thine ear; no object shall divert
thiae eye; then, if ever, shall thy
sprightly fancy transport thee beyond
the common pitch, and show the ma
jorim of high invention.
ON COMMUNICATING NEWS.
Let the greatest part of the news thou
nearest be the least part of what thou
behevest, lest the greatest part of what
thou behevest be the least part of what
is true; and report nothing for truth, in
earnest or in jest, unless thou know it,
or at least confidently believe it to be so,
neither is it expedient at all times or in
all companies to report what thoN know
est to be true; sometimes it may avail
thee if thou seem not to know that
which thou knowest. Hast thou any
secret, commit it not. to many, nor to
any, unless well known unto thee.
ON DRESS.
In thy apparel avoid profuseness,
singularity and gaudiness; let it be de-
cent, and suited to the quality of thy
place and purse. Too much punctuai-
ny and too much morosity are the ex-
tremes of pride. Be neither too early
in the fashion, nor too long out of it,
nor too precisely in it. What custom
hath civilized hath become decent; I'M
til then it was ridiculous. Where the
eye is the jury, the apparel is the evil
apparel is the husk of that shell, and
the husk will often tell you what that
kernel is. Seldom does solid wisdom
dwell under fantastic apparel; neither
will the pantaloon fancy be Injured
within the walls of grave habit. The
fool is known by his dyed coat.
ON CONVERSATION.
Clothe not thy language either with
obscurity or affectation; in the one
'shou discoverest too much darkness, and
in the other too much ightness; he
that speaks from the understanding to
the understanding doth best. Know
when to speak lest, while thou showest
wisdom in not speaking, thou betray
thy folly in too long silence. If thou
art fool, thy silence is wisdom; but if
thou art wise, thy long silence is folly.
AS too many words from fools mouth
give one thet is wise no room to speak,
so too long silence in one that is wise
gives fool opportunity of speaking,
and makes thee in some measure guilty
of his folly. To conclude, if thou be
not wise enough to speak, be at least so
wise as to hold thy peace.
ON BEARING ADVERSELY.
Hath fortune dealt thee i'll cards, let
wisdom make thee good gamester. In
fair gale every fool may sail; but wise
behavior in storm commends the Wis
dom of pilot. To bear adversely with
an equal mind is both sign and glory of