Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-09-24
PIthy Pointers,
Praise is rebuke to the man
whose conscience alloweth it not.

K. II we knew all we desired TO know,
man would be no longer man.
Ideas generate ideas; like potato,
which, cut in pieces, re-produces itself
in multiplied form.
A prosy man is like the clack of
mill when there is no corn to grind.
Love is better than pair of specta-
cles to make everything seem greater
which is seen through it.
Rest satisfied with doing we'll, and
leave others to talk of you what they
please.
There is a paradox in pride; it makes
some men ridiculous, but prevents
others from becoming so.
Long sentences in a 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.
Miser-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; it is whetting
a-sword to wound thine own breast,
or to murder thy friend.
A man whose caution is excessive,
seldom feels the satisfaction that
comes from a sense OF security.
Men of genius are often dull and
inert in society, as the blazing meteor
when it decends to earth is only
stone.
It is easy to exclude the noontide
light by closing the eyes; and it is
easy to resist the clearest truth by
hardening the heart.
If a rich old gentleman has thought
ofmarrying let him consider we'll before
hand what it is that he stands in
need Ola wife, an heiress, or nurse.
Anoble income, nobly expended,
is no common sight; it is far easier
to acquire a fortune like aknave than
to expend it like gentleman.
Whoever would oblige himself to
tell all that he has done would oblige
himself to do nothing that he would be
anxious to conceal.
Rightly it is said ofutter utter misery,
that it cannot be remembered, it is
swallowed up in it's own chaos.
One good deed cannot compensate
for a life Of crime; q single ounce OF
gum is not enough to embalm a whole
catacomb OF mummies.
The confidential friendship of two
bad and cunning men is generally an
injury to others, and no benefit to
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 more
we owe to others than to ourselves.
We are sure to be losers when we
quarrel with ourselves; it is a, civil
war, and in all such contentious
triumphs are defeats.
We often see young spendthrifts
allying themselves to females who are
not SO only because they have othing
to expend.
II we exhaust our income in schemes
OF ambition, we shall purchase disap-
pointlnent; if in law, vexation; if in
luxury, disease.
Philosophers themselves, like the
stole gentleman OF Marmontel, after
praising simplicity of living, often
sink to sleep on heavy suppers and
beds OF down.
There is a plant growing in the
springs of Iceland, which not only
flowers, but bears seed, in water hot
enough to boil an egg.
If you haven't got religion enough to
keep you sweet when things go wrong
how do you know you have got any?
Living only to get riches generally
turns out like the boy who got the
hornets nest. Just as he thought he
had it he found out that it had him.
Every boy who is smoking cigarettes
ought to knowthat heis probably rob-
bling an old man who will some day
bear his name, unless bad habits kill
him sooner.
He who has made time his friend,
will have little to fear from his enc
mics; but he that has made it his en-
envy, will have little to hope from his
friends
Good faith is the richest exchequer
of Governments, for, the more it is
drawn upon, the frmer it is, and it's
resources increase with it's payments.
The human race seems to have been
engaged for thousands of years in try
ingto invent wings to fly with. They
have 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 the production of a
spark; either Of them may hammer on
wood forever. and no fire will follow.