The record-union., 1893-06-01
Of Epigrams and Standard Pro-
verbs,
For Those Who Refuse, Who Delay
and Who Doubt About Indus
trial Improvement.

So use your property as not 10 lhJure
Enother's.
The plenty of some men make them
poor.
Prosperity comes to the vigilant not to
the slothful.
The welfare of the people is the highest
law for the good citizen.
He who does not prevent what he can,
seems to commit the act.
Out of nothing nothing comes.
The multitude who refuse to act, is no
excuse for your refusal.
Fortune assists the bold and repels the
coward.
Nothing is perfect while something re-
mains to be done.
FROM THE SPANISH.
Tho wearer best knows where the shoe
pinches him.
Between saying and doing there is a
great distance.
FROM THE ITALIAN.
Aid long waited for is sold, not given.
1t is better to give the wool than the
sheep.
What is well done is done twice.
Every weak man finds an excuse.
He who relies upon another's table is
apt to dine late.
All things accomplished had begin
ming.
FROM THE GERMAN.
Everything might be we'll if there was
no bltt added to it.
To be too wise, is to be stupid.
There is no "why" without a "be-
cause"
Towns and countries are never more
ruined than when counsel is taken from
the fearful and laggard.
FROM THE FRENCH.
Precept begins, example completes.
There is no necessity for proving the
existence of light.
One take this' is better than two
Thou shalt have"
a good beginning makes a good end
ing.
LiDerality consists less in giving much
than in giving seasonably.
FROM THE CLASSICS.
Think nothing done if anything re-
mains to do.-Lucan.
The bell never rings of itself: unless
some one handles it, it is sdumb-Plautus
The beginnings OF all things are small
Cicero.
The most important part of every busi-
ness Is TO know what ought to be DONE
COlumella.
In great straits. when nope is small, the
ooldest counsels are safest.-Livy.
Although strength should fail, the effort
Will deserve praise.-Propertius
Courage leads to heaven; fear to death.
Seneca.
Every recreant who proves his timidity
IS afterwards boldest in word and tongue
-Tacitus.
"He wishes well'' is worthless unless
the deed go with it.-Plautus.
We have been born to associate with
our felIow-men in effort, and to join in
community with the human race
Cicero.
am citizen, and nothing which re-
lates to the city can be a matter of uncon-
Germ to me.-Anon.
Gain at the expense of reputation
should be called loss.-Syrus
We must improve our time, for it goes
with rapid foot.-Ovid.
True wisdom consists not in seeing
what Is Immediately before our eyes, put
IN foreseelng what is to come.-Terence
FROM THE POETS.
Look forward what's to come. and back
what's past.-Denham.
VINO nothing has to lose, the war bewails;
And he who nothing pays at taxes rails.
-Congreve.
Acquit thee bravely, play the man.
Many things impossible to thought
Have been by need to Iull perfection brought
Dryden.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure.
Distrust is cowardice and prudence folly
DIR. Johnson.
What is our duty here? To tend
From good TO better-thence to best
-Bowring
Can I want courage for so brave a deed.
-Dryden.
Let early care this main concern secure:
Things of less moment may delays endure
-Denham.
You are too senseless obstinate.
Shakespeare.
Determine on some course
More than wild exposure to each chance
That starts IN tn way before thee.
Shakespeare.
Who stands safest2 Tell me- is it he
That spreads and swells in pun'd d prosperity?
Who feels no ills
Should therefore fear them; and when for
tune smiles
Re douEly cautious, lest destruction come
RemorseleSs on him, and he fall unpltied
-SOpnocles.
impudent! regardless OF thy own,
Whose thoughts are centered on thyself
alOne.-Uryden.
Be wise to-day; It's madness 10 defer:
Next day the fatal precedent viii plead:
Thus on, till wisdom is pushd out OF life.
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