Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — JAPANESE PROVERBS [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE PROVERBS

I’R of is better than theory. . -:s b ind and deaf, one ca • o impartial. f ig o ant are never defeat d i ai a gumsnt. an with a three-inch tohgn < lay . giant. Ui: -N minds will ever bring vwaim of demons. V 7 en the sense of shame is lost, a va < e neat oeases. n trying to straighten her horn t. e cow was killed. The dog chases out the quail, but the eagle claims it. With a mote in the eye, one cannc sec the Himalayas. ■efobe trying horseback, one sh >ul learn to ride on oxen. Patience is the rope of advance meat in all lines of life. A i housand-foot embankment wil be b - .ken by the hole of an ant. It is easy to get a thousand soldiers but difficult to find one general. The escaping warrior, aftqr 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 al seventeen years, as peasants 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.