Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

Godliness with Contentment is great Gain Good manners in a Lad, will make his parents Glad Great minds & small means ruin many men Good Humour hath never failing graces Gods works only are perfect in their Kind Grief nourished in your breast will never let you rest Greater profit doth always come of lear[n]ing than of play Good men are safe when wicked ones are at odds Get what you can Honestly & use it frugally God is omnipotent, True and almighty

Hasty resolutions are seldom fortunate Haste makes waste of paper Ink & time He that stumbles & falls not minds his pace Hypocrites first cheats the world & at last themselves Human life will human frailties have Honor that is true, is lawful to pursue^pursue He who sends a fool of an errand ought to follow him Honors have ^are burdens and riches have wings He who fears not an oath will not tremble at a lie Hours fly swiftly away, improve each moment of the day In praising most sparing be & blame most sparingly = 1847 Feby 3 Rained very hard & the wind Blew tremendous 1 of Doct Johns negro woman Killed in a Tobacco House which blew over killed one & crippled 2

13th July 1842 the hardest days Rain & wind I believe I ever saw I am sick with with my jaw,- desperate oat harvest finishing lay by corn about the 10th this year