Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — JAPANESE PROVERES [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE PROVERES

Pit OF L better than theory. Unlt-ss b ind and deaf, one ca not be impartial. T ; ignorant are never defeat d in any argument. A ..AX' with a three-inch tongue can s lay <i giant. Uli _N minds will ever bring a swarm of demons. W en the sense of shame is lost, ad va.-.ce nent cea»es. IN trying to straighten her horns, the cow was killed. The dog chases out the quail, but the eagle claims it. With a mote in the eye, one cannot see the Himalayas. Before trying horseback, one should learn to ride on oxen. Patience is the rope of advancement in all lines of life. A thousand-foot embankment will be broken by the hole of an ant. It is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but diilicult to find one general. The escaping warrior, after defeat, fears the trembling of the grass. A gentleman will be careful not to stop to retie his shoe-lace beside another’s watermelon field. Even the devil is interesting at seventeen years, as peasant’s tea is fragrant at the first drawing. If water becomes too pure, fish cannot live in it; if people be too exacting, fellow-beings cannot stand beside them.