The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-04-02
PlTHY 'POlNTERS.

IN hundred wore stockings.
In Cyprus and Egypt, hydronbohia
has never been known to occur
They who have true light in them.
selves seldom become satellites.
A cripple in the right wav will beat
a racer in the wrong
Many hope that the tree will be feJyeo
who hope TO gather chips by the fall. ,
Give a wise man health, and he vii,
give himself everything else.
Self-delusion is ever averse from in.
curry, though by inquiry alone can
the charm be dissolved
How many words would remain un-
SAID II there was no weather to talk
about?
A lady, describing an ill-natured
man says, ''henever smiles but he feels
ashamed of it.
Ambition often plays the wrestler's
trick OF raising a man up merely to
fling him down.
If thou hast lettering servant.
send him on thine errand lust before
his dinner.
Despair gives the same fatal ease TO
the mind that modification does to
the body.
The best dispute though one most
rarey met with, is that which leads to
reconciliation.
1t is wise and we'll to look on the
cloud OF sorrow as though we expect
II TO turn into a rainbow.
Some writer's think they are ey-
pounding mysteries while they are
only mistifying.
Never despise humble services; when
large ships run around, little boats
may pull them off,
Borrowed thoughts. like borrowed
money expose the poverty Of the Dor
rover.
In France, love is a comedy; in Eng
land, tragedy; in Italy, an opera; in
Germany, melodrama
The only passion which age does
not blunt IS avarice; which, the longer
we live, only becomes the keener.
Jealousy is the voice of narrow
minds: Confidence, the virtue OF en-
larged ones.
Strong minds are like firm grained
wood, which kindles slowly, but burns
long
A man that astonishes at first. soon
makes people impatient if he does not
continue in the same enlivening kew.
None are so seldom found alone.
and are so soon tired of their own
company, as those coxcombs who are
on the best terms with themselves.
Fortune has been considered the
guardian divinity of fools; and she is
certainly very kind in helping those
who cannot help themselves.
There are some who write, talk, and
think so much about vice and virtue.
that they have no time to practice
either the one OF the other.
He who beholds the faults of Others
through his own virtue, is always dis
posed to forgive them; indulgence is
the child of purity of heart.
1t was remarked by Diony sius, the
sophist, in counselling moderation in
pleasure, ''that honey should beeaten
from the tip of the finger
DrinRing.-The first draught serveth
for health-the second for pleasure
the third for shame-and the fourth
for madness.
The gleeful laugh of happy children
is the best home-music and the grace
full figures of childhood are the best
statuary.
Trust him little who praises all, him
less who censures all, and him least
who is Indifferent about all.
There is great difference between
honor and honesty; the former, it is
said, exists among thieves, the latter
certainly doesn't.
They declaim most against the world
who have most sinned against it; as
people generally abuse those whom
they have injured.
When people think Justly, they will
generally think the same on all sub
iects not under the influence of the
| passions.
Conscience is the best friend we have
with it we may bid defiance to man:
| without it all the friends in the world
can be Of no use to u.s.
A generous man, will in his treat
'iASiio ~ GIL SiiSiAiN LSSVlLloiC tlic SUI.
which pours light all around it.-even
upon the clouds that strive to dim its
luStre.
There is a relief in ridicule and good
natured satire. Laughing at the mis-
conduct OF the world will, in a great
measure, ease us of any disagreeable
passion about it. p.
Society has at all times the same
want, namely, OF one sane man with
adequate powers OF expression to
hold up each object of monomania in
its right relation.
Half the regulations of wit that
pass current in fashionable life are
based on ill-natured sayings of per-
sons who would find it difficult to OBJ
tain any notice in society except by
censOrlous observations.
The great designs that have been d.
gested and matured, and the great lit
erary works that have been begun and
finished in prisons, prove that tyrants
have not yet discovered any chains
that can fetter the mind.
In the midst of objects the fairest
and the grandeSt, MANY are inf}iffer