The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-09-28
GOLDEN WORDS.

What is virtue but medicine, and
vice but wound?
Hc must be a thorough fool who
can learn nothing from his own folly
1t is much easier to keep out ofarut
than to get out.
Kindness, like grain, will increase
by sowing.
Nothing Is more intolcrablc than
proud ignorance.
Nothing can be well done that is
done out Of season.
A wise man may appear Ikea fool
In FOOLS company.
Advice is thrown away where the
case admits of no counsel.
A thousand probabilities will not
make ono truth.
lie who docs not honor his wife
dishonors himself.
IIo who fears death has already
lost the life he covcts.
Every man is the architect of his
own fortune.
The greatest learning is TO be seen
in the greatest plainncss.
Though u good life may not silence
calumny, it will dsarm it.
Joys arc flowers dropped in our
path by the hand of Providence.
The childhood shows the man, as
morning shows tho day,--Nlilton.
There is always need for a man to
go higher, il he has the capacity to
do so.
lie hath riches sufficient who hath
enough to be charitablc.-Sir n.
Brown.
The rays ofhappincss, like those OF
light, are cOlorlcss when unbrokrn.--
LongfcllOw.
But Satan now is wiser thn1 of yorc,
And tcmpts by making rich, not making poor.
| Pope.
There is a lust In man no charm cnn tame,
or loudly publishing his noighbor's shame
| Harvey.
A pure character is like polished
stccl-if dimmcd by breath, it al
most instantly RECEIVERS it's bright
ness.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm; swarms
of insects will surround you in thc
sunshine.
Ever the lesson of history has been
this: the rccoil from Journalism has
been skcpticism; the reaction from
superstition is inlidclity.
A helping word to one in trouble
is often like n switch on u railroad
4 track-but one inch between wreck
and smooth rolling prosperity,
! If truth be established, objection,
arc nothing. Tho ono is founded on
, our knowledge, the other in our ig.
n0rancc.
1t is ono of the worst effects OF pros
pcrity to make man n vortex in.
stead of u fountain, so that, ins cad o
throwing out, he learns only tt
draw in.
A friend should he onc in W hos,
understanding and virtue we can
equally conlidc, and whose opinion
we can value at once for it, iu>tnc,,
and its sincerity.
1t is not The most dcmonstrativc Oi
our friends who care most about Us
Scores Of people wish Us we'll VINO
do not feel compelled to stop us in
the street and say so.
A mans possessions are Just rs
large as his own soul. If his title
deeds cover moro, the surplus acres
own him, not he the acres.
There arc truths which some men
dcspisc because they have not exam
incd them, and which they will not
examine because they dcspisc them.
Liberty will not descend to pco-
pie; thcpcoplc must raise themselves
to liberty; it is a blessing which
must be earned before il can be en-
joycd.
"Calumny," says Archbishop
Leighton, "would soon starvc and
die of itself if nobody took it up and
gave it lodging" "Thcrc would not"
says Bishop Hall, "bc 50 many open
mouths if there were not so many
open ears"
Life is series of surprises, and
would not be worth taking or keep
Ing were it not. God delights to
isolate us every day, and hide from
us the past and the future.
When men are most sure and arro-
CANT, they arc commonly the most
mistaken, and have then givcn views
to passion, without proper dcIibcra-
ton and suspense which can alone
secure them from the absurditirs.
Lazincss grows on people; it be-
gins in cobwcbs and ends in iron
chains. The moro business man
has TO do the more he can accom-
plish, for he learns to cconomisc his
time.
Sound economy is sound under
standing brought into action; il is
calculation realized it is the doc
trine of proportion reduced to prnc-
ticc; it is forcsccing contingencies,