The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-16
SAYINGS.
wise and Otherwise.
From the Chicago Ledger. /


from the Chicago Ledger
THE greatest honor that cnn be paid
to virtue is to live it.
TnuR charity looks upon the faults
OF others with generous neglect.
VICE has its season, but its future, il
it has any, is hidden under bushel.
WEED out contentnent from your In
bors and work will become drudgery.
IT is human nature. All make fools
of themselves sometimes and many al
ways.
NATURAL smartness appears to be
hustling principle pretty lively nova
days.
POVERTY is certainly bad enough,
but when pride and poverty are as
twins it's worse.
/ HAVE scattered some little cheerful
ness in my career, and never yet felt
any poorer for so doing.
Few people get regulations that ex-
coed their merits; fewer have ability
exceeding their desires.
The result OF folly is 80 binding to
many that they endure more to appear
foolish than sensible.
To HAVE confidence in your own
abilities is pretty good philosophy. Te
expect everybody else to is folly.
HAVE come to the conclusion that If
energy ever waited upon some men that
she failed to make an impression.
AFTER you learn to deny yourself
learn also to deny others. Do this and
you will lay up ducats for old age.
NATURE and character are twin
cousins. The right kind of nature rs
the right kind of character, and vice
versa.
To ACKNOWLEDGE the debt of graft
tude one to another is sommendable,
but to cancel the obligation shows a
better man.
THERE is no harm in little nonsense
occasionally, but when you get down to
the real business of life, common sense
is what wins.
WORK with an object in view. If
you make hit, keep cool and don't
brag about it. You have done no more
than many others.
ADD to your other good qualities in
dustry, stick-to-a-tiveness, and econo-
my, and remember that the hardest of
these is the latter.
A STIFF upper lip will do more to
make man of boy, after his mother,
than the little bottle with its hose at
tachment ever did.
YoUNG man, your present regard for
a good reputation becomes in time the
standard of estimation by which the
world measures you.
If there are those who have never
made any mistakes in this life it is be-
cause they have never had ambition
that is worthy of failure.
ASIDE from the Creator you will have
to hunt q good while before you will
find anybody that is as good friend to
you as they are to themselves.
Tomorrow the actions performed
to-day may appear foolish, but if you
acted honestly at the time you have
more to brag of than many have.
ASSUMED piety may catch the respect
of some, but the true article will be
worth one hundred cents on the dollar
when LIES accounts are settled up.
lHE Debt l0VeSbmeub bIlab ever
made in this world was when Led my
present wife to the altar and paid the
minister so for giving her my trade
mark.
THERE are many young men who
start out to make something of them
selves who would do better in the end
if they had let the contract out to some
one else.
BEWARE of those persons who "aim
to tell the TRUTH" and continually refer
to this virtue. You will discover that
most of them are the poorest shots in
America.
IsADMIRE an ambitious man, bat
have great confidence in the man who
is content TO turn the crank rather
than take chances of getting his nose
on the grindstone.
THERE are some persons left yet with
such grasping natures that if they were
instrumental in loaning that which
would add fresh misery to the existence
of others that they would expect REQ
ompense for the loan.