The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-07
TRUISAES.
NEVER laugh at an indecent jest.
NoSF but a fool is alwavs right.

NEVER laugh at an indecent Jest.
NoNE but a fool is always right.
He that sips many arts, drinks none.
WITHHOLD not the wages of the poor.
To fear the worst oft cures the worst.
Some persons mistake noise for argu-
ment.
THEY that govern most make least
noise.
He who too much fears hatred is unfit
to rule.
RuMoR doth double, like the voice and
echo.
MEpIocRrTY deals much in relating
stories.
CHARMS strike the sight, butmerit wins
the soul.
Envy shooteth at others and wound
eth herself
'sn- ss'Ffs,zY Say" Is often proved % Be a
great liar
BETTER face danger once than be al
ways In fear.
SLIGHT small injuries, and they'll be-
come none at all.
He who foresees calamities suffers
them twice over.
THoUGHr is the poetry of those only
who can entertain II.
Suffering and boisterous mirth are
alike dlsagreeable.
FORTUNES favorites, like cats, light
forever on their legs.
The young viii SOW their wild oats; but
prevent it, If possible.
A FOOL always finds one still more
foolish to admire him.
The greatest truths are the simplest;
so are the greatest men.
LET not the stream of your life always
be murmuring stream.
A STRAIGHT line is the shortest in NOR
ais as well as geometry.
PoLTPENEss is the Just medium be-
tween form and rudeness.
NEVER be offended at the presentation
of bill; that is business.
The more honesty a man has, the less
he affects the air of saint.
THERE are always two sides to a story;
hear both, and then decide.
HoPE is the dreeam of a waking man:
if hope be lost, all seems lost
Az honest man is able to speak for
himself, when knave is not
BoRRowINa money is bad habit: and
borrowing trouble is no better.
He who buys what he does not want
will soon want what he cannot buy.
CHARACTERS never change; opinions
alter; characters are only developed.
IMAGINARY evils soon become real ones
by indulging our reflections on them.
DIFFICULTIES between step-mothers
and children are often aggravated by out
siders.
CRAFTY men contemn studies, simple
men admire them, and wise men use
them.
THE conditions of success are three
first, work; second, concentration; third,
fitness.
MAKE a conscience of promptly re-
turning borrowed books, and umbrellas,
especially.
FRIENDS should not be purchased with
gifts; when you cease TO give their friend
ship will cease
THERE are many men whose tongues
might govern multitudes if they coafd
govern their tongues.
TRUE politeness consists IN doing to
others what, in like circumstances, we
would have others do to us.
The government of nation demands
a certain harmony like music, and certain
proportions like architecture.
CosnMENDING a right thing is cheap
substitute for doing it, and with this we
are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
We blame Inconsistency in woman, but
only when we are the victim. We find
it charming if we are the object
THERE are some persons on whom
their faults sit we'll, and others who are
made ungraceful by their good qualities
He. who has no taste for order will be
often wrong in his Judgment and seldom
considerate or orconscientious in his actions.
THOSE who, without knowing us, think
or speak evil of us, do no harm; it is not
us they attack, but the phantom of their
own imagination.
THE nice arrangement and proper ap-
preparation of time is O science almost as
valuable as any of the seven, and as i'm
portant to acquire.
STRENGTH of resolution is, in itself,
domination and ability; and there is a
seed of sovereignty in the barrenness of
unfinchino discrimination