Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-08
A PRINCES PROVERBS.

A court is an assemblage OF NONE anu
distinguished beggars.
Prudence in woman should DC All
instinct, not a virtue. 49,
The imagination OF men Is olteh 'he
refuge of their preJudlces: 49,
Love is reality which IS born III 'he
fairy region of romance.
What | have been taught have Tor
gotten, what / know | have guessed.
Certain acts may be rendered legal;
but can never be made legitimate.
The love of glory can only create
hero; the contempt of it creates great
man. "
Theologians resemble dogs, that
pnaW large bones for the sake OF very
little meat.
Too much sensibility creates unhap-
piness: to much insenslbllItv creates
crime.
We must learn to submit with grace
to commit the follies which depend up
on character ~,
The mind of the Due de Laval is like
a dark lanthorn, only capable OF hight
ing his own path.
Truth and virtue can do less Sood
in the world than their false, Well-acted
semblance can do evil.
A rich man despises those who t1atter
him too much, and hates those VINO 90
not t1atter him at all.
A generous man will place the benefits
he confers beneath his feet, those he
receives nearest his heart.
More evil truths are discovered by
the corruptions Of the heart than by the
penetration OF the mind.
The "point of honor" can often be
made to produce, by means of vanity,
as MANY good deeds as virtue.
;fo TO Jc,1pO man is like new aC-
quaintance, of whom he grows disguised
as he advances in years.
An early coXcOmb may be compared
to butterfly deprived OF Wlngs-he be-
comes caterpillar once more.
Ii you wish to appear agreeable IN
society you must consent to be taught
many things which you know already.
A narrow minded man never possesses
real and true generosity he can never
90 beyond mere benevolence.
General maxims applied to everyday
life are like routine applied to the arts,
good only for mediocre intellects.
To contradict and argue with total
stranger is like knocking at gate TO
ascertain if there is any one within.
There are two things to which we
never grow accustOmed-the raVages of
time and the injustice of our fellOwmen.
There are many vices which do not
deprive us of friends; there are many
virtues which prevent our having any.
Certain women can find buyers for
their charms who would find no one to
take them were they to be had for
nothing.
In love we grow acquainted, because
we are already attached-in friendship
we must know each other before we
love.
B 9th erudition and agriculture ought
to be encouraged by Government: wit
and manufactures will come of them
selves.
The reputation of a man is like his
shadow-gigantic when it precedes him,
and pigmy in its proportions when it
follows.
Chisnatic wranglers are like child's
top, noisy and agitated when whipped,
quiet and motionless when left alone
Unbounded modesty is nothing more
than unavowed vanity; the toe humble
obeisance is sometimes a disguised inn
pertinence.
The errors of great men and the good
deeds Of reprobates should not be reck-
oned in our estimates Oftheir respective
characters.
The thought of death throws upon
life lurid glow, resembling that OF a
conflagration, lighting up that which it
is about to devOur.
He who can not feel friendship is
alike Incapable of love- Let a woman
beware of the man who owns that he
loves no one but herself.
The stream of vice will flow as natur-
ally into palaces as the common river
flows onward to the sea.
There is SO great charm in friendship
that there is even kind Of pleasure in
acknowledging oneself duped by the
sentiment it inspires.
That sovereign has little mind who
seeks to 90 down to posteritv bv means
of great public buildings 1t is to con-
fide to masons and bricklayers the task
of writing history.
To succeed in the world it is much
more necessary to possess the penetra-
ton to discover who is fool than who
is clever man.
Our welcome of Il stranger depends
upon the name he bears, upon the coat
he wears; our farewell upon the spirit
he displayed in the interview
The bold defiance of woman is the
certaiG sign Of her shame. When she
has once ceased to blush, it is because
she has to much blush for.
1t is sometimes quite enough for a
man to feign ignorance of that which he
knows, to gain the reputation of know
ing that of which be is ignorant.
L remember having often been told in
my youth that the love of glory was
virtue. Strange must be that virtue
which requires the aid of every vice.
A great capitalist is like a vast lake.
upon whose bosom ships can navigate
but which is useless to the country, be-