Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-03-15
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il You desire tn be held wise. ne 50
wise as to hold your iongue.-Querlss.
An idle reason lessons the weight Of
the good ones You gave before.-Snii.
Who never walks save where he sees
mems tracks. makes no discoveries.-J.
u. Holland.
That virtue which requires ever to be
guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Goldsmith
Nothing is ever done beautifully which
Is done in rivalship. nor nobly. which IS
done in PRIDE 1skin.
Let your zeal begin upon yourself; then
you may with justice extend it to your
neighbors.-Thonsas 4. Eempis.
Good qualities are the substantial riches
Of the mind: but it is good breeding that
sets them of 70 advantage.
The great thinker il seldom a disputant.
He answers other mems arguments bv
stating the truth az he sees it.--Prof
March,
There il Gelic proyerb If the best
mans faults were written on his forehead.
it would make him pull his hat over his
eyes,
True glory takes root AMI even spreads !:
all false pretcnces, like flowers fall to the
ground nor can any counterfeit last long.
Cicero.
1t may serve a. comfort 10 ~ all in
our calamities and af1liction. that he that
loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a
gamer by the loss.
There is not so poor a book in the
world that would not ne prodieious ef-
fort were it wrought ont entirely by sin
gle mind, without the aid Of prior inves-
tgators.
That which often renders old age sad
is that we grow old fragmentarilv One
part Of US. still in it, vigor. witnesses in
CONSERVATION the decadcncc of the other.
Too often heart that has remained young
has for organs only hccaying senses :;
sometimes ardent senses are the torment
and shame of an icy soul.
Millions Of people are constantly en-
pIoyed in reading while not one in a
thousand knows this most obvious fact.
that the tints of the forest are the result
Of the perfect maturity of the leaves, and
that frost, be it ever so slight. destroves
the tints OF every leaf it touches. How
shall we explain this want Of correct OBJ
servation? II is owing to their volumin-
Gus reading which leaves them no time
for observation; and to prove my asser
ton, we would call attention to the fact
tanning to nature are well understood by
many English peasants who have never
learned TO read
In their commerce With their fellows.
men display three leading characteristics
the need of domination. OF admiration. or
OF sympathy. Great men wish to be at
once obeyed. admired and loved not only in
the present but also in the more distant
postcrity. Still. they incline more or les
towards one or the other Of these ambi-
tons. Napoleon seems to have aspired
only to be obeyed. AlYxander wished
above all to he admired. The last word
of dying Caesar resumes a life in which
the need of being loved was. perhaps, the
liveliest il not the most profound of all.
so history might. in all Justice, call him
The most amiable OF great mcn.-CoB,teSss
A. 1gonH.
Mr.. Elijah Hitchcock was u Connecticut
constable whose character was under scru-
tiny. Deacon solomon Rising vas in
gured of about him Deacon solomon
Rising" said the questioner. do YOU
think Mr.. Hitchcock is dishonest man ?'
5 Very promptly. ''Oh. no, sir not by
! any means"
: well then, do You think he is 4 mean
man."
"Well. with regard to that" said the
Deacon. n little more deliberately. Il may
say that don't really think he Is a mean
man. I've sometimes thought he was what
you might call keeriul-a prudent man. -
What DO you mean by prudent man. ="
well. | mean this: That one time he
had an execution for 81 against old Wild
ow Whittier. back here. and he went up to
her house and levied on flock of ducks.
He chased them ducks. one at time,
round the house poorly much all day, and
every time he catchcd duck he'd set
right down and wiring his neck and charge
mileage; an his mileage mounted to more
than the debt. Nnthiu' mean about it. as
know OF. but always thought after that
that Mr.. Hitchcock was a very prudent
man