Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-21
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whose conscience alloweth il not.
Ideas generate ideas; like a potato.
which, cut in pieces, re-produces itself
in u multiplied form.
A prosy man is like the clack OF a
mill when there is no corn TO grind.
Love is better than pair OF specta.
cles 90 make everything seem greater
which is seen through it.
] Rest satisfied with doing WELL and
leave Others to talk OF you what they
please.
There is paradox in pride; il makes
some men ridiculous, but prevents
Others from becoming so.
Long sentences in short compost.
ton are like large rooms in little
house.
Some people take more care TO hide
their wisdom than their folly.
Authors and lovers always suffer
some infatuation, from which only,
absence can set them free.
Misor-one who, though he loves
himself better than all the world,
uses himself worse.
Words are but lackeys to sense. and
will dance attendance without wages
or compulsion,
He who has provoked the shaft OF
wit cannot complain that he smarts
from it.
Indulge not in anger; il is whetting
a-sword TO wound thine own breast,
or to murder thy friend.
A man whose caution is excessive,
seldom feels the satisfaction thar
comes from a sense Of security.
Men OF genius are often dull and
inert in society, AS the blazing meteor
when it deccnds 70 earth is only a
stone.
II is easy 20 exclude the noontide
light BY closing the eyes; and il is
easy 20 resist the clearest truth By
hardening the heart.
II rich old gentleman has thought
otmarrying lot him consider well before
hand what il IL that he stands in
need Ola wife, an heircss, or a nurse.
A noble income, nobly expended.
is no common sight il l. far eesier
To acquire a fortune like a knayo than
to expend it like a gentleman.
Whoever would oblise himself 10
tell all that be has done would oblge
himself TO do nothing that hc would be
anxious 10 conceal.
Rightly II is said otuttcr utter misery.
that il cannot be- remembered, IL is
swallowed up in its own chaos,
One good deed cannot compensate
for n life OF crime "A single ounce Of
gum IS not enough TO cmbalm whole
cntacomb OF mummles.
Tie confidential friendship Of two
bad and cunning men is generally au
injury 20 Others, and no benefit 20
themselves.
SANDERS. issuing from red and
beautiful lips. are like foul spiders
crawling from the blushing heart OF a
rose
To quell the pride even OF the great.
est, we should reflect how much mors
We owe 10 Others than TO ourselves.
We are sure to be- losers when We
quarrel with ourselves, IL is n civil
war, and IN NIL such contentious
triumphs are defeats
We often see Young spcndthriits
nllyiug themselves TO females who nrn
not so only because .hcy have nothing
to expcud.
II We exhaust our income IN schemes
OF ambition, we shall purchase disnp-
polntneut; II In law. ycsation. II in
luxury, disease.
Philosophers themselves. like the
stole gentleman OF Marmontel, after
pralslng simplicity Of living, often
sink to sleep on heavy suppcrs and
beds OF down.
There IL n plant growing in tho
springs OF Iceland, which not only
howers, but bears serd, in water hot
enough to boil an egg
II you haven't got religion enough 10
keep you sweet when things 60 wrong
how do you know you have got any2
Living only TO ret riches generally
turns out like the boy who got tho
hornets nest. Just MS he thought no
had il he found out that II had him.
Every boy who is smokingcigarettes
ought to know that hcis probably roe.
hing an old man who win some III
; bear his name, unless bad habits kill
| nun hOOleIs
lie who has made time his friend,
will have little to fear from his enc.
mics; but he that has mnde il his en-.
: envy, will have little to hope from his
friends.
Good faith is the richest cxcheuuer
OF Governments, Tor, the more il Ia
drawn upon the iirmer it is, and it's
resources Increase with its payments.
The human race seems TO have been
engaged for thousands OF years in try
lngto invent wings to fly with. They
have n desperate ambition to become
an awkward kind OF poultry
, IN most quarrels there is fault on
both sides. Both flint and steel are
necessary to tho production OF n
spark; either OF them may hammer on
wood forever md M fro will follow