Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — TRUISMS. [ARTICLE]

TRUISMS.

Never laugh at an indecent jest None but a fool is always right. He that sips many aits, drinks none. Withhold not the wages of the poor. To fear the worst, oft cures the worst. Some persons mistake noise for argument. They that govern most make least noise. He who too much fears hatred is unfit to rule. Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo. Mediocrity deals much in relating stories. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Envy shooteth at others and woundeth herself. “They Say,” is often proved to bo a great liar. Better face a danger once than be always in fear. Slight small injuries, and they’ll become none at all. He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. Thought is the poetry of those only who can entertain it. Simpering and boisterous mirth are alike disagreeable. Fortune’s favorites, like cats, light forever on their legs. The young will sow their wild oats; but prevent it, if possible. A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men. Let not the stream of your life always be a murmuring stream. A straight line is the shortest hi morals as well as geometry. Politeness is the just medium between form and rudeness. Never be offended at the presentation of a bill; that is business. The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. There are always two sides to a story; hear both, and then decide. Hope is the dreeam of a waking man: if hope be lost, all seems lost. An honest man is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Borrowing money is a bad habit; and borrowing trouble is no better. He who buys what he does not want will soon want what he cannot buy. Characters never change; opinions alter; characters are only developed. Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them. Difficulties between step-mothers and children are often aggravated by outsiders. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. The conditions of success are threefirst, work; second, concentration; third, fitness. Make a conscience of promptly returning borrowed books, and umbrellas, especially. Friends should not be purchased with gifts; when you cease to give their friendship will cease. * Thei|e are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. True politeness consists in doing to others what, in like circumstances, we would have others do to us. The government of a nation demands a certain harmony like 4 music, and certain proportions like architecture. Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, and with this we are too apt to satisfy ourselves/ We blame inconstancy in woman, but only when we are the victim. Wo find it charming if we orc the objext. There are some persons on whom their faults sit well, and others who are made ungraceful by their good qualities. He who has no taste for order will be often wrong in his judgment and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. Those who, without knowing us, think or speak evil of ns, do no harm; it is not us they attack, but the phantom of their own imagination. The nice arrangement and proper appropriation of time is a science almost as valuable as any of the seven, and as important to acquire. Strength of resolution is, in itself, domination and ability; and there is a seed of sovereignty in the barrenness of unflinching determination.