POPULAR SAYINGS

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Every popular saying is a chapter from the history of a heart.

A belle is generally the subject of two contrasting passions; the envyof women, the love of men. Envy says she is ugly, but love says she isan angel.{8}

To mitigate sorrows, we doubtless need to sell remembrance to buyforgetfulness. Who would ever have thought the possession of a goodmemory would prove a misfortune?

Sympathy often enters by the eyes, lives in the heart, is fed by theears, and is killed by ingratitude.

It is Cupid’s well known axiom that he who loves, keeps silence. Andthere is also a maxim that if we imagine we can love two at the sametime, three are deceived.

«That which cannot be signed ought not to be written,» Ferrer de Coutohas said, most pertinently.{9}

Faithfulness is a rare coin. To convert it into serviceable currency youmust exchange it. Plain truth is another coin, also very rare, andthere are persons who have used it so little that they are totallyignorant of its great value.

Though the attributes of God are all equally adorable, we find His mercyfar easier to submit to, than His justice.

One of the many sweet morals of Ossorio-Bernard is this: «Respect oldpeople, for it is a dilemma of destiny, to die or to become aged.»

In all languages we learn, what experience has taught all people, that adog that barks will not bite.{10}

In running swiftly up a hill, a certain individual fell and broke hisneck. His fate is a lesson. In following the promptings of ambition, toorecklessly, we often lose all.

«Acta, non verba» would, if always remembered, do away with much uselesstalking.

They say that Love is an electric spark, also a m

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