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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
May
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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Every rmm who cheats, or standers, or steals, to the aggregutu guiit of the n;ition. The violet grows lovv and covers tself with its tears, and of all flowers j'ields the svveetcst iragraoce. Sueh is humility. The perfection of conversation is not ito pliiy a regular sonata, bnt, like the iEoluin harp, to üwait the inSlructioo -of the passing breath. "Why did Adam bite the apple ?" said the schoohnaster to one (.f his pupila, "Because he had uo knife," replied .the urchin. One of the most remarkuble oven tl of the war ia the prompt response of Ibe Western States for 85,000 hundred day men. A travelor who was detained an hour by some mischanee, shorttened his stay y "makieg a minute of it." There's philosophy for you. Up in the heavens the fogs of our day8 must one day be resolved into stars, even as the mist of the milky way is parted by the telescope into suris. Beautifu] was the reply of a venerable man to the question whether he was still in the land of the living: "No, but I ara almoet there." Speak not doleful things in a time of mirth, nor at the table; nor of nielan oholy things us ol death or wouridf, md if others menlion thern, change, if yon can, the disconrse. Speak not of base ind frivnlous thin# agamst grown and learned men, nor ofvery difficult questin or subjects amoni; the ignorant, nor tliings hard to be believed, Mr. and Mrr, Rh?)dv are likely to flourish agaiu at the watering places tho coming s3MS(in. Af most of the fashionahle reporta every rooui ï engaged, and all of the rottuges in the immmiiate vieinity, as woll :is many rooin in private housen. He that gives go.id advice bnildn with one hnd ; he thnl givH (fnd counsel and examplt buiMn '.vitli buth ' but he that gives üfc, , dm'ñit'nin mid bad example Imihls with i-ne b;ind and pulls down with tlw iitier There are flowers ih:it art? repu]iive at first. iíílit, h .1 whi-ii ;lag"lv Ptuinined they unfild -. wurld "f bi-mly - nd so with nift hoijld ii. v i jniljíc a man fV in fii -;■. . ! ■ u,. ,u M i,.lV go..d qu h i icii i i levol , theinlelres on a -ij :.i:-i ■ ..-■ As thu davlüjli can be geei hr. iigh very uo íll holo-, - a binga uülll luSllutC U pBIVnll S ■ .-rilldl'fd, chíiracto' eon lie ímsí habitu nlly and honorabl.' pjrfirmed, daíly life being the qanrrv fro n which We Imilil it up and rouu;h hew tbo babils ffojn t. The lid Hw York vnlunieera waru badly cut up in the -nj;igements of Tbursdny and Prielay hist. They weut into uciion with neven hundred men, and on Thursüny eveoing oould muster Imt eiíhty who wre fit for duty. Their fighting was alraost UTiparalleled for obstinacy nnd energy. Fifteen hundred of tliern wonnded jrrived to day. A guilly consciíirifo is üke a wliirlpool, drawiog in all to itwelf, whích oiherwiso would pass by. Be fearful only oí thyself; and stnnd n awe of nono niore thíin thine ownconsoienoe. Thero is a Cato n every man, a serero rensor of Kh manniífs. And hu thrit reverences ihlajadge, will seldom do anything that he nood repon t.

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Michigan Argus