White Pine News Weekly Mining Review

Couplet Maxims.

A resolution put in use
Is better than a good excuse.

Give friends the benefit of doubt:
Don't let your faith in them die out.

It does not prove that you are right
To beat your neighbor in a fight.

If you must cheat to win a game,
Stop playing ere you come to shame.

The man who hates a bird's sweet song
Knows less of virtue than of wrong.

Men who perform the greatest feats
Look plain and common in the streets.

'Tis better far to try and fail
Than to just sit around and wail.

Don't scorn the poor man whom you meet;
Tomorrow he might own your street.

The noblest thoughts and deeds of men
Are not recorded by the pen.

Heroes alone, in life's great plot,
May scorn the weak; and they will not.

Live each day so no one need weep
O'er your misdeeds the while you sleep.

Each jealous thought kill at its birth;
True love and faith command their worth.

When dealing think: Would this seem fair
If I were he who listens there?

You have no right to ask of Jim
A favor you'd not do for him.

Just when they think they know it all,
Wise men, like aviators fall.

Give men the chance that each one needs
To rise above youth's foolish deeds.

Despite what others claim, I say:
The world grows better every day.

-Charles H. Meiers, in Farm and Home.