Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-29
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An idle reason lessons the weight of
the good ones you gave before.
All women wish to be esteemed-they
care less about being respected.
1t is easier to suppress the first desire
than to satisfy all that follow it.
A man who don't know anything will
tell you the first chance he gets.
A gilded frame makes O good picture
in the eyes of nearly all the world.
While learning adorns a man, let us
remember that truth ennobles him.
1t is right to be contented with what
we have, but never with what we are.
Nothing can constitute good breeding
that has not good nature for it's founda-
ton.
A mans own good breeding is the best
security against other peoples i'll man
ners.
Blessings on the head of him or her
who laughs the blues out of weary
heart.
Virtue requires no other recompense
than the tribute of sef-approbation and
respect.
A man looks at woman from head to
foot-a woman looks at man from foot
to head.
No reproof or denunciation is so po-
tent as the silent influence of good
example.
We are acquainted with the Justice of
God, but know nothing about his juris-
prudence.
Good intentions are the seeds of good
actions, though they do not always pro-
duce them.
Education is the proper employment
not only of our early years, but of our
whole lives.
AS the prickliest leaves are the driest,
so the pertest fellows are generally the
most barren.
The smaller the calibre of the mind
the greater the bore of a perpetually
open mouth.
Never attempt TO convince q woman
OF anything by argument-you must re-
sort to emotion.
If you wish that your own merits
should be recognized you must recog-
nize the merits others.
Advice is like snow, the softer it falls
the longer it dwells upon and the deeper
it sinks into the mind.
Heaven made virtue; man the ap-
pearance ;" and, very naturally, man
prefers his own invention
He that does base thing In zeal for
his friend burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
God would have been very illogical
and cruel II, having made Life what it
is, he had not made Death.
One of the most important rules of
science of manners is an almost absolute
silence with regard to yourself.
1t is easy enough to make q man
laugh, but to gain his respect, at the
same time, is not so easy thing.
The man who cannot take care OF
himself is about as safe among wild
beasts as among his fellow-beings.
The wealthy miser lives as q poor
man here but he must give account as
a rich man in the day of Judgment.
Almost anybody can send boy on an
errand but only the wealthy have leisure
to spare to wait for him to get back.
There is no better reward than the
approval of our own conscience. It Is
worth more than all others together.
To form true men, 1t is indispensable
that this precept should be engraven on
their hearts-Fear nothing but remorse.
Those whom we nave loved and lost
are no longer where they used to be,
hut, ever and everywhere, where we
are.
The reputation of man is like his
shadow-gigantic when it precedes, and
pigmy in its proportions when it follows
him.
Style is the only frame to hold our
thoughts. It is like the sash of win
dow-a heavy sash will obscure the
light.
Deathbed repentance is burning the
candle of life in the service of the devil,
then blowing the snuff in the face of
Heaven.
Good temper, like sunny day, sheds
brightness over everything. 1t is the
sweetener of toll and the soother of dis
quietude.
One reason why the world is not re-
formed is, that everybody would have
others make beginning, and thinks not
of himself
Women who love are always afraid
they are not loved. Women who are
not loved always fatter themselves that
they are loved.
The winter frost must rend the burr
of the nut before the fruit is seen. So
adversity tempers the human heart to
discover its real worth.
Wickedness can be seen through the
thickest fog, but virtue has to have an
electric light turned on it before it will
be recognized by the world.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences
the largest and worthiest portions of our
knowledge consists of aphorisms, and
the greatest and best of men is but an
aphorism.
When man is dangerously i'll, the
law grants dispensation, for it says
''You may break one Sabbath on his be-
half, that he may be preserved to keep
many Sabbaths.
A thorough paced antiquarian not
only remembers what all other people
have thought proper to forget, but he
also forgets what all other people think
it proper to rem6mber.
An apology in the original sense was
a pleading off from some charge or i'm
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