The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-09
GOLDEN WORDS.
Idle hope Is a walking dream.
Little and often fills tho purse.

Idle hope Is walking dream.
Little and often fills tho purse.
RE who wants content doesn't find
an easy chair
Envy is honor's most secret enc.
my.
Silent deeds are better than unprof-
iiable words.
Caution is the lower story of pru-
dence.
A man is valued as he makes him
self valuable.
You may find your best friend or
your worst enemy in yourself.
Civilty costs nothing-nay, is somc-
thing to your crcdlt.-lPunch.
Doing good is the only certain hap
py action of mans life Sidney.
Prove all things; hold fast to that
which is good.-[St. Paul.
God hands gifts to some one, and
whispers them to others.-l Alger.
1t Is a great misfortune not to en-
dure MISFORTUNE Bion.
Those who have not suffered, know
not what they have to gain. / Alger'
He who waits to do great deal at
once, will never do anything.--lDr'
johnson.
Prefer diligence before idleness,
unless you esteem rust above bright
ncss.--[Plato.
He is not only idle who does moth
ing, but he is idle who might be bet
Ter employed.-[Socrates
Really to inform the mind is to cor
rect ard enlarge the heart.
A true religious instinct never de-
urived man Of one single JOY.
Persecution and aflliction and trial
hasten the iruit-buds of truth.
Let your promises bc sincere and
within the compass ofyour ability.
fyou want to glide smoothly, use
the oil of patience freely.
A mind full of knowlcdo is q mind
that never fails.
Sorrows rain brings blossoms and
bird-song's to the tree of knowledge
lie that loses his conscience has
nothing Iefs that is worth keeping.
Learn that happiness is not outside.
A good heart and n clear conscience
bring happiness, which no riches and
no circumstance alone ever do.
Uc not sorry that men do not know
you, be not sorry that you arc igno-
rant of men Confucius.
Most OF the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by our
standing in our own light.
As daylight can be seen through
very small holes, so little things will
illustrate q persons character.
The greatest charm of books is,
perhaps, that we see in them that
other men have suffered rs we have.
Sorrow gathers around great souls
as storms do around the mountains;
bf,t like them, they break the storm
and purify the air of the pia'n be-
meath them.
A wife is better chosen by the ear
than by the eye, A good wife is the
aiil of God and the Workmanship OF
q good husband. Many blame the
wife for their own shittlcss life.
do daily and hourly your duty 40
it patiently and thoroughly. DO 1t
as 1t presents itself; do 1t at the mo-
ment, and let it be its own reward.
Never mind whether it is known or
acknowledged or not; but do not iall
to do IL
The greatest man Is he who choos-
o. the right with invinciblc rcsolu-
Non: V no resists the sOrest tcmpta-
tiMns from within and without. who
Eears the heaviest burdens cheerful
". md whose reliance on the truth
and virtue, on God, is the most un'
ALTERING.
There Is no funeral SO sad to follow
"a the funeral of our own youtn,
which v have been pamperlng WIN
1Onu ueSlTeS, dul Ai"P~,.) -,
the bright berries that hang IN polS"il'
ous clusters over the path OF life.
The new friends whom we make
after certain age, and by wh"h we
seek to fill the places Of those whom we
have lost, are 10 the earlier ones what
glass eyes, false teeth and cork legs are
To real eyes, natural teeth aud legs Oh
flesh and bone.
!'he best thing to give your enemy
Z, forgiveness to your opponent, toll
eranae: to friend, your heart; to your
child, q good example [; to father,
Difference to your mother, conduct
that will make her proud of her son :;
70 Yourself, respect to all mer, charl-
"; to God, obedience.
There is no praying possible to a
,non until he becomes again enough
~ a child not to calculate his rapturea,
and no, to crave all equivalent.-lJohh
Wsiss.
ApuorLY IIir.-A correspondent
Of the UcruM and PreSdytcr, writing