Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — Josh Billings’ Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Josh Billings’ Philosophy.

.> • i Thebe are plenty of folks who think that all there was of any note about Diogenese was the tub he lived |n. It is a rare man who knows the full extent of his ability. f Truth, like the sun, sometimes goes under a cloud, but always comes out again, and shines all the brighter. My friend, don’t ever strike a dog. There never was a dog yet who, if he had half a chance, didn’t love some one else better than he did himself. The only way to convince a fool is to let him have his own way, and there are lots of them that even wan’tfeonvinefc Young man, learn to wait, the chances are if you try to set a hen before she is ready, you will lose your time, and, .demoralize the hen beside, oy . C| ! Nature sdlßom makes afoorl, shfcsfihply furnishes the materials, and lets each of us complete the job to suit ourself. . .. If you expect to. reach * the top of the. ladder, you have got totbiegln at t«l bottom round; it is only the eagles that fly directly to the top, and eagles are scarce. The man who invented the- lucifer match', or even the wedded oiothes-pta, did the world more gobd-lhiflE ttSUny qf the anciemt philosophers. The thinner the ice is the mqre anxious every one is to see whether it will bear. Men who have the most power show it the least; there is not a more terrible engine of the law tliaii'S fresh-elected constable, t !fW LMS. Each spoke in the wnCdl thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. ... I never have known a gambler yet who stuck to the business until he was "seventy years old, but what died in some almshouse neglected and despised. Mankind could make a paradise of this world at about one-half the price it has cost to make a hell of it Abase that a man don't merit and gets is worth a great deal more to him man praise that he does merit and don’t get A loafer is comparatively harmless; he is too nnmb to. be absolutely vicious, and too lazy to do much damage In the world.

Fv A-4ead feeag js anttural born [be haq c&pm-ity edjbugh to make him rejfipcctable, bufphe fievil holds a first mortThete.is a difference between learning and wisdom. . Xiiave seen men who could calculate an eclipse to the sixteenth of an inch, who could demonstrate any problem in mathematics, -who eould botanize ail the weeds and flowers, but who knew of no other way to set a ta)n than to ttehor onto the neat, and hold’'ber down toflh k thwr-T know ©ft is a wood wife, and something tion; there is no reputation in horse-steal-ing, bj»t (here is a good-deal of notoriety in it, provided a man get -caught r ?*,«#&** I don’t care If you oven get to be an Alderman, the world always remembei» the gutter, and loves.to talk about it, The man who la determined to win is sore to; there Iff not bad luck enough in the world to beat him. 1 * * ° Repentance is the most satisfactory duty that a man can perform, but it won’t cure his headadhe after a night’s debauch, nbr pay for the hdt whisky and cigars it took :to makeifr—-N. 17 Weekly.