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Collectanea.
this negro , who was a slave belonging to a gentleman in the vicinity of Memphis , had paid J . Bennett , a free negro , fifteen dollars to transport him to a free state , and he , according to contract , boxed him up , and would have set him at liberty had he been successful . " SEASONABLE ALLUSIONS . — "Leaves dropping from the trees in autumn , may well be compared to the friendship of this world ; while the
sap of maintenance lasts , friends swarm in abundance ; but in the winter of need they leave the neglected naked " MODESTY . — " Modesty is the appendage of sobriety , and is to chastity , to temperance , and to humility , as the fringes are to a garment . " BRIEF BELIEF . — "A sceptic once said to the learned Dr . Parr that he would not believe anything that he could not understand ; to which the doctor wittil lied" Thensir creed will be the shortest of
y rep , , , your any man ' s I know . " OVER ANXIETY . — " Almost all men are over anxious . No sooner do they enter the world , than they lose their taste for natural and simple pleasures , so remarkable in earl y life . Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth and honour ? and on they go , as their fathers went before them , till weary
and sick at heart , they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of childhood . ' ' LOVE AND HATRED . — " If I hate , I deprive myself of something : if I love , I am the richer by what I love . Pardon is the recovery of an alienated possession—human hatred a prolonged suicide—selfishness the greatest poverty of a created being . " CURIOUS EMIGRATION OF ANTS . — " In the month of June , says a
correspondent of the Aberdeen Journal , my gooseberry bushes were infested with a very destructive species of caterpillar , and with a view of having them destroyed , I caused a bushel of the ants , Formica Rufa to be conveyed from Shin Glen and distributed amongst the bushes , which they perfectly cleared of the varment in two days . At the end of that period , however , the little creatures appeared in deep contemplation , gathered together in groupsand on a sudden marched off in the most
, perfect order to a neighbouring ant-hill ( whicli no doubt some of their scouts had discovered , ) where a succession of defeats and victories occurred before they were admitted to the freedom of the burgh . " "A WISE man should not obstinately adhere to particular habits and customs , nor should he be like a weathercock to change with every wind of fashion . "
"IF there be one habit more than another the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth , it is the habit of ridicule . The lip ever ready with the sneer , the eye on the watch for the ludicrous , must always dwell on the external ; and most of what is good and great lies below the surface . "
" THERE is this difference between happiness and wisdom . He that thinks himself the happiest man is really so , but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool . "
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Collectanea.
this negro , who was a slave belonging to a gentleman in the vicinity of Memphis , had paid J . Bennett , a free negro , fifteen dollars to transport him to a free state , and he , according to contract , boxed him up , and would have set him at liberty had he been successful . " SEASONABLE ALLUSIONS . — "Leaves dropping from the trees in autumn , may well be compared to the friendship of this world ; while the
sap of maintenance lasts , friends swarm in abundance ; but in the winter of need they leave the neglected naked " MODESTY . — " Modesty is the appendage of sobriety , and is to chastity , to temperance , and to humility , as the fringes are to a garment . " BRIEF BELIEF . — "A sceptic once said to the learned Dr . Parr that he would not believe anything that he could not understand ; to which the doctor wittil lied" Thensir creed will be the shortest of
y rep , , , your any man ' s I know . " OVER ANXIETY . — " Almost all men are over anxious . No sooner do they enter the world , than they lose their taste for natural and simple pleasures , so remarkable in earl y life . Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth and honour ? and on they go , as their fathers went before them , till weary
and sick at heart , they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of childhood . ' ' LOVE AND HATRED . — " If I hate , I deprive myself of something : if I love , I am the richer by what I love . Pardon is the recovery of an alienated possession—human hatred a prolonged suicide—selfishness the greatest poverty of a created being . " CURIOUS EMIGRATION OF ANTS . — " In the month of June , says a
correspondent of the Aberdeen Journal , my gooseberry bushes were infested with a very destructive species of caterpillar , and with a view of having them destroyed , I caused a bushel of the ants , Formica Rufa to be conveyed from Shin Glen and distributed amongst the bushes , which they perfectly cleared of the varment in two days . At the end of that period , however , the little creatures appeared in deep contemplation , gathered together in groupsand on a sudden marched off in the most
, perfect order to a neighbouring ant-hill ( whicli no doubt some of their scouts had discovered , ) where a succession of defeats and victories occurred before they were admitted to the freedom of the burgh . " "A WISE man should not obstinately adhere to particular habits and customs , nor should he be like a weathercock to change with every wind of fashion . "
"IF there be one habit more than another the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth , it is the habit of ridicule . The lip ever ready with the sneer , the eye on the watch for the ludicrous , must always dwell on the external ; and most of what is good and great lies below the surface . "
" THERE is this difference between happiness and wisdom . He that thinks himself the happiest man is really so , but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool . "