Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-12-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE PROVERBIAL AND OTHER PLATITUDES, ADOPTED, ADAPTED, AND INVENTED BY OUR OWN PHILO. 770. The envious are not so quickly consoled at ou, success as we are at our failure. 771. The amusements of youth are disdained by manhood; the pleasures of each age resemble the steps of a ladder, we cannot reach any one without treading the others under foot. 772. How is it that Irish reapers all have such a siekle-y appearance? 773. On the road of life we see only the great obstacles, while the small ones are those which cause our difficulties; thus a wall stops a man whereas a pebble causes his fall. 774. He who baptises his child gives it a name, whereas he who baptises his wine takes away the name that it has. 775. A sorrow communicated to a friend is diminished as much as a pleasure which is sot thus divided. 776. Critics know better how to chastise authors than how to correct them, just as children learn more quickly to whip horses than to lead them. 777. This is the best number yet out; in fact it's seven-ly. 778. I prefer a tear in my eye, to a tear in my troweers. 779. How many there are, who thinking to compensate for the evil they do, by the good they intend doing, are never virtuous but in perspective. 780. When prudery survives youth and beeuty in a woman, it reminds me of a scarcerow forgotten in the fields after the harvest. 781. Vulgar manners aro thrown into relief by elegant dress, as is bad spelling by beautiful writing. 782. When patriotism degenerates into national egotism, how can that which is a vice in an individual be a virtue in a people ? 783. He who seeks too greedily for the esteem of others, shows that he has very little for himself. 784. 1 never look at a fop with both eyes, because I can see a swell (as well) with one. 785. Nothing makes a physical defect so prominent as the care taken, and the eimberassment felt, in endeavouring to conceal it. 786. Genius arrives at the summit of success at a bound, whilst talent only adds a few rounds to the ladder of fame, by means of which his successors will overtake him and cause him to be forgotten. 787. A fop is said to cut a swell, a sharp razor does the same for him, a blunt one does not cut as well. 788. Atheism is the suicide of the soul (I believe I have said this before, but have not time to refer btek). 789. Never confide to a friend a sum larger than the value you assign to your attachment to him. 790. Cobbler's wax is better for the sole, than cobbler's whacks for the body. 791. Cobblers although small men are generally strapping fellows. 792. We often attach our resentment against a person to one single fault, when we have a thousand reasons to love him. 793. To succeed in one's work is a good plan to exaggerate its importance ; self love will Kid us admirably in so doing. 794. The past and the future only illuminate great men, just as sunrise and sunset only gild the hign mountains. 795. When a farmer has to use a sickle to cut his corn, we ought to pity his poor feet. 796. Many philanthropists, unable to manage their own affairs, take in hand those of mankind in general, but as they count fewer disciples than creditors, they always owe more to humanity owes to them. 797. Genius is a torch which illumines to the future, the virtues and vices of its poseeseors. 798. Is the past worth our regrets, the present our troubles and the future our anxieties? 799. When a pick-pocket steals your repeater and ehein, he beeomes a sentinel, for he keeps the watch and  guard. 800. It is more difficult to sustain the character of hypocrite, than to practise the reality of virtue (Oar readers may presume without any presumption that the remainder will follow sometime or other— obsbly some