The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-04-05
MULTUM IN pARV0.
Better were it to be unborn than to
be illbred.-Sir w. Raleigh.

Better were it to be unborn than to
be illbred.-Sir w. Raleigh.
The acts of this life are the destiny
of the next Eastern Proverb.
Proverbs-the wisdom of many, and
the wit OF one.-Lord John Russell.
Kindness in women, not their beau
teous looks, shall win my love-Shake-
speare.
Incredulity robs us of many pleas
nres, and gives us nothing in return.
Lowell.
Man is an initiative creature, and
whoever is foremost leads the herd.
Schiller.
No fountain is so small but that
heaven may be jmaged in its bosom.
Hawthorne.
AS small letters weary the eye most,
so also the smallest affairs disturb us
mos:.-Montaigne.
He that worries himself with the
dread of possible contingencies will
never be at rest.-Johnson
Toll, feel, think, hope; you will be
sure to dream enough before you die,
without arranging for it. Sterling
The years write their records on our
hearts as they do on trees inner cir
Giles of growth which no eye can see
Sake Holm.
When we advance a little into life
we find that the tongue of man creates
nearly all the mischief in the world
Paxton Hood.
You may depend on it that he is a
good man whose intimate friends are
all good, and whose enemies are de-
cidedly bad-Lavater.
Leave your bed upon the first deser
ton of sleep it being i'll for the eyet
to read lying, and worse for the minC
to be idle.-F. Osborn.
Nothing destroys authority so much
as the unequal and untimeIy inter
change of power, pressed too far and
relaxed too much,-Bacon.
The chief pleasure in eating does
not consist in costly seasoning or ex
quisite flavor, but in yourself. Dc
you seek sauce by labor?-Horace.
No error is more fatal than that O
those who think that virtue has NJ
other reward because they have hearC
that she is her own.-Coltop.
1t is sad weakness in us, after all
that the thought of mans deatf
hallows him anew to us; as II Life
were not sacred, too.-George Elliott
Diogenes being asked, "What il
that beast which is the most danger
ons2" replied, "Of wild beasts, the bit,
of aUYanderer; and of tame beasts
that & the f1atterer."
What can a man do more than di,
for his countrymen? Live for them
1t is longer work and therefore
more difficult and nobler one
Charles Kingsley.
Eighty years hence it will matte
little whether we we're peasants O
peers DuG III Will mdGU6T nuCH Wu6Gtl
er we did our duty and played tn
an.-Stopford Brooke.
The miser, starving his brother
body, 'starves also his own soul, and a.
deathTshall creep out of his great es
tate OF injustice, poor and naked ant
miserable Theodore Parker.
/ am of opinion that there are nj
proverbial sayings that are not true
because thew are all sentences draw
from experience itself, who is tn
mother Of all sciences.-Cervantes.
Say all that you have to say in th
fewest possible words, or your reade
will be sure to skip them and in tn
plainest possible words, or he will Gel
tainly misunderstood them.-Ruskin
He who sedulously attends, pointed
~ asks, coolly answers aud calml
speaks, and ceases when he has moth
ing to cay, is in possession of the bes
requisites of good converser.-Lav
alter.