1 it is darkest before dawh. The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time.-Locke. Home is home, be it ever so homely. 2 It is never too late to learn. Custom will often blind one to the good as well as to the evil effects of any long-established system.-Whately. Hope is grief's best music. Sea Cat's Tail Grass. (No. 2.) 3 It is never too late to mend. He that knows how to make those he converses with easy, has found the true art of living and being welcome and valued everywhere.-Locke. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. 1 It is not lost what a friend gets. 2 It never rains but it pours. 3 It's as plain as a pike staff. Marsh Bent Grass. (No. 3.) 4 It's good to be merry and wise. It is to live twice when you can enjoy the recollection of your former life.-Martial. How poor they are who have not patience. Slender Fescue 5 It's ill healing an old sore. By custom, practice, and patience all difficulties and hardships, whether of body or of fortune, are made easy. -L'Estrange. Idle people have the most labour. 6 It's neither rhyme nor reason. A man's life is an appendix to his heart.-South. If the counsel be good, no matter who gives it. Grass. 4 It takes two to make a quarrel. 5 It will be a feather In your cap. 6 Jack-In-office Is a great man. Sea Reed. 7 Jack is as good as his master. If we will stand boggling at imaginary evils, let us never blame a horse for starting at a shadow.-L'Estrange. If the world says you are wise and good, ask yourself if it be true. 8 Jest not at another's infirmities. No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.-Lord Bacon. If you have done a good deed, boast not of it. Wood Reed Meadow Grass. 9 Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.-Boyle. If you have too many irons in the fire, some of them will burn. |