Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-20
GOLDEN GLEANlNGS.

IT'S better to love to hear than to
love to speak.-CieO6ULJs.
Procure not friends in haste; nor,
procured, part with them il haste
Scion.
A mar may live justly by avoiding
what be blames in Others.-IhGtss.
1t shows a diseased mind to desire
such things as cannot be obtained, and
to be Unmind1ul of the misery Of
Others.-BrQS.
The blood Of a healthy, full-grOwn,
average man weighs twenty pounds.
Thinking is the least exerted privi-
lege Of cultivated humanity.
There is much folly that Is well ex-
pressed, as there are many fools vino
are well clothed.
Fetes are not occasions of happiness
to people of society, but only OppOrtu-
mites Of appearing happy.
Good actions sOwn in our pathway
bud and blossom to embalm our re-
membranee at some later day.
There are readers who get no farther
than the t~itle-page Of books, ike the
Indian fox which devoUr5 only the
heads OF insects.
Worldly pleasures are no more able
to satisfy the soul than the light of a
candle to give day to the world.
Rhetoric and Logic-Demosthenes
said Of PhOeion, that he upset by his
logic what he set up by his rhetoric.
one solitary philosopher may be
great, virtuOus, and happy in the
depths of poverty, but not a whole
people.
CHANTING-A chanted prayer is the
poetry of devotion, while q prayer
read is merely the prose of it, WbjtG-
ker.
MERIT.-Men are often treated like
barrels-the empty ones made to stand
up, the full one laid down,-JeGn
Paul.
DOGMArIsM.-When once a man is
determined to believe, the very alb
surdity Of the doctrine confirms him
in it.-JJMiuS.
There is a whole sermon in the say
ing of the old Persian, " In all thy
quarrels leave open the door Of recon-
Citation"
a Christian should never plead spir-
ituality for being q slOven. If he
should be a shOe-cleaner, he should be
the best in the parish.
When man revolts against the Cos
pei, he takes another master-himself;
one who renders all inferior masters
possible.
Most persons choose their friends as
they do other useful animals, prefer
ring those from whom they expect the
most service.
POVERTY OF PoErs.-Tt NAV be
truly applied to pOsts what St. Paul
speaks of the early Christians: If
their reward be in this life, they are
OF all men the most miserabIe.-C0.c-
ley,
Quotation, sir, is a great thing;
there is a community Of mind in ii:
classical quotation IS the parole oflite-
rary men all over the worId.-JOhn-
son.
knowledge in general expands the
mind, eXalts the faculties, refines the
taste Of pleasure and opens numerous
sources of intellectual eDjOyment.-
Robert Hall.
LeCdu BUb 10 tuHlFdU1ct anu EHluUe, I
nor to believe and take for granted.
nor TO find talk and discourse, but to
weigh and consideration.
Eloquence that leads mankind bv
the ears gives a nObler superiority
than power, that every Ounce NAV
use, or fraud, that every knave NAV
employ, to lead them by the nose
B~OhRy6roke.
RECTITUDE.-It Is more desirable
10 be miserable by acting according
10 reason than to be happy in going
it-Epicurus.
Don't be afraid of the storms Of
lime, knowing that God holds the
moral as well as the physical ocean in
he hollow of his hand.
Melancholy falls upon a eontented
ife like a drop Of ink on white paper
which is not the less a stain because
t carries no meaning.
We have a power to suspend the
prosecution of this or that desire; this !
GEMS to me the source of all liberty; {
q this seems to consist that which is Z
Improperly called Frss VIII.