Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-12-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ONE THOUSAND AND ON E PROVERBIAL AND OTHER PLATITUDES,  ADOPTED, ADAPTED, AND INVENTED BY OUR OWN PHILO.  (Continued from—time to time.)  770. The envious are not so quickly consoled at our 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 resell any ene wit,liout treading the others under foot.  772. How la it that Irish reapers all I aye such A sickle-y appearance.? .  773. On the road of life we see only the great ol.staeles, while the small ones are those which cause our ihflioultios; lima a wall stops a num whe:eas am lade causes his fall.  _ 774. He who haptites hid child gives it a nurse whereas he who baptises his wine takes away the same that it has.  775. A sorrow communicated to a friend is diminished as much as a pleasure which is not thus divided. 776. Critics know betkr how to chastise authors than how to correct them, just as children learn snore quickly to whip horses than to lead them. 777. This is the best number yet out; in fact is's seven-ly.  778: I prder a tear in my eye, to a tear in my trowoers._  779. How many there are, who thinking to compensate for the evil they do, by the good they intend doing, Ire never virtuous but in perspective.  780. When prudery survives youth and beauty in a woman, it reminds me of a scarecrow forgotten in the fields after the harvest.  781. Vulgar manners are 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. lie 'ho' seeks too greedily for the esteem of others, shows that he has very little for himself. 784. I 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 embarassment 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 back). . _  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 wkarks for the body. 791. Cobblers although small men are generally stropping 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 aid us admirably io so doing. 794 The past and the future only illuminate great men, just as sunrisa and sunset only gild the higu 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, tako in hand those of mankindin general, but as they count fewer disciples than creditors, they always owe more to humanity than humunity owes to them.  _ 797. Genius is a torch which illumines to the future, the virtues and vices of its possessors. 798. Is the past worth our regreta, the present our troubles, end the future our anxieties?  799. When a pick-pocket steals ;tour repeater and chnim he becomes a sentinel, ter he keeps watc/s and guard. 800. It is more difficult to sustain the character of a hypocrite, than to practise the reality of virtue. (Our senders may presume without any presumption that the remainder will follow sometime or other—proLably Fometime.) ,  1.- C. (no connection with the flower of Dunblane.)  The volunteer sph it is said to be on the wane in Montreal, the attendance at bottalion drills having fallen off lamentably. The Government is blamed for not offering proper encouragement. . . _