The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-24

which better part have saved my nfe.s
Many other sayings have been used with
slight variations by several authors. Com
PARSONS are odious" is found in Burton's
Anatomy of Melancholy in Heyward's
"A Woman Killed by Kindness in Dome.
and in George Herbert. In Don Quixote.
we read that Comparisons are offensive
Thomas Kempis avs that, ''Of two evils
the less is to be chosen" and in Priors
limitations of Horace we find, "Of two
evils 1 have chosen 1.-The least" Words
worth is responsible for the statement
that THE child in father to the man.
but in Paradise Regained' Milton had
already said
THE childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.
The changes have been rung on the ex-
preston, IAN is not gold that glitters.'
Middleton gives IAN is not gold that glist-
ems" Spenser, in the "Faery Queene.'
says, Cold is not all that golden SEEMS
Lydgate has I'm all that g.isters gold,
all is not gold that outward showeth
light" Drydens version is AL as they
say, that glistens is not gold" and Chau-
Ger, in the Canterbury Tales" SAYS the
same thing, but with more cireumlocu-
ton:
But think that which schineth as the
gold
Is anught as that have herd tell"
There's luck in odd numbers" Lover
makes Rory O'Moore say. And in "rhe
Merry Wives of Windsor we find Good
iuck lies in odd numbers, they saw
there Is a divinity in odd numbers, either
IN nativity, change, or death" Heaven
never helps the man who will not act.'
sald Sophocles, and Sir Philip Sidney put
the same idea in smaller compass il. God
helps those who help themselves"
hoiy George Herbert is the author or
compiler of many shrewd sayings. such az
"Wouldst thou have thy cake and lree,
~ tooE The wearer knows wher the
shot pinches, Little pitchers have wt5e
ears ears lt Is poor sport that is not worth
the candle, Gods mills grind slow but
sure Half the world knows nor how,
the other half lives" His bark Is vorss
man his bite" The burnt child drea5
'ne HIe' The mill cannot grind with
water that is past" Whose house is glass
must not throw stones at another" "Cod
ZONES Solnes 10 see without a bell" IAN i'll la
Dorer quarreis with his too.s,'' 'aro a close.
shorn sheep God gives wind bv nea sure >,
inns rs probably the origin of the provarb
Gou teinpers the wind to the shorn lamb .
Whlch was said by Sterne in ssrr,ista,,,
SANDY Herbert also quotes "Man nro-
poses, God disposes." This was frst saia
by Thomas a Kempis.
a great many of our common savings
are taken from Shakespeare. "As desd 90
a 1oornair' and ITO give the devil his
que are from Henry w. my cake is
S1usln; IS from THE Tanning of the
Shrew" Screw your COURAGE ~ ~
sucking sucking place" is found in ssAfacbetb -
some quotations from Shakespeare are
c .a[TSa to the Bible. as, for instance
t,,r Ia :, bourne from which no traveller te-
eulns, which is used by worthy deacon
once ono, week in prayer meeting. in the he
mel mat It is scriptural quotation
FOO nea lo and Fletcher are responsible
d n several much-used savings. s,,cb az
Beggars should never be choores ;, go
~ me seornfui Lady," and zone mans
meat Is another mans poison" which ia
ier Se" IRON rom Loves Cure" and in But
iel Hudibras" occur ITO take the vvrono
sow by the ear" ITO get bv boo,. ns
th hoOn 10 count their chickens ere
they're Matched" and TO smell . rat ;,