The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-08-18
GOLDEN wORDs.

BE thine own palace or the worlds
thy jail. -[Doure. ''. "
BE praised not for your ancestors,
but for your virtues
Forgiveness is the odor Of sweet
flowers when traInpled upon.
I He who waits todo great deal at
once will never do anything.
All there is Of honest statesmanship
consists ia combining Individual mean
Ilesses for the public good 1r-r" ..
Never despise humble services:
when large ships run aground, little
boats may pull them off.
Equality" says French writer,
''means a desire to be equal to your
superior, and superior TO your equal.
Be noble, and the nObleness that
lives in other men, sleeping but never
dead, will rise in majesty to meet
your own.
| see hundreds of men who have
what you call religion, with whom
should scorn to exchange my irrell-
gien. Kingsley. ~
There would he no evil speakers il
there. were no evil hearers. 1t is in
| scandal as ia LYbeviJ tiES receives Il
as bad as the thief.
| Goodness, and absence of heat sud
hqste, Indicate fine qualities. A gem
| tleman makes no noise, 4 lady Is
\ geTene.-[R. w. Emerson. ..." ....
! Though health may be enjoyed
without gratitude, it cannot be spOrted
with without loss, or regaiDed 10y cOur-
age Buckminster.
will end with doubts, but he who IS
content to begin with doubts may end
with certainty. Bacon.
God writes for the few, lessons Of
| beauty iu the clouds; but they are
! translated for the masses by the rain
drops into better understood lessons OF
| utility.
Books are company; and the CON-
pany of bad books is az dangerous as
/ the company of bad assOciciates,
while that of good books Is like that
of good men. I'd. .... ..
Pastime is a word that should never
lie used, but in bad sense; it IL vile
20 say q thing Is agreeable, because il
heIrs to pass the time away LSiien-
! stone. r at
Education Is letter safeguard nf
liberty than standing army. we
fetrench the wages OF lhs scbOOlmaS-
ter, we must raise those Of the recruit
ing sergeant.- Everett.
Ifvou would always be discreet
Five things observe with caTe--
Ofvhom YOU speak, TO whom you 10 ,i..
And how, and when, and where.
Youth and age have too little sym
| patby with each other. If the young
would remember that they may Ice
old, and the old remember that they
have been young, the world would ie
happier .... .. ........
''Thc great end and object of lie, -
said Socrates, sis the perfection of the
intellect, the great moral duty Of man
| is knowledge, and the object OF ali
\ knowledge Is one, namely. Truth,
! the Good, The Beautiful. the Divine
I Reason"
/ There Is something ineXPreSslbiy
exciting to the mind i'll losing Oue'-
self in the infinity of space; it at once
/ takes away from life its little care~
and desires, and from reality its ether
wise oppressive weight Humboldt
1t is a terrible thought to remember
that nothing can be forgotten. | have
| somewhere read, that not an oath i
uttered that does not continue to Vi
brate through all time, in the wide
spreading current of sound; not I
| prayer lisped, that its record is not t.
be found stamped on the laws of na
ture by the indelible seal of the Al
nights will.-LCOOper.
l. Before | came TO London, being a
d prayer-meeting, when very qUain
preacher prayed for me, did not un
derstaud his prayer for a long time
ii was that when / got to London
might be delivered from the "bIeating
lug of the sheep.n' He meant that
must not care what people said abOu
me-it some praised me and other.
blamed me.-LSpurgeOn.