The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-24
GOLDEN WORDS.

Be tnlue own paldCC vi thc NoiiV .
thy jail.-[Doure.
Be praised not for your ancestors,
but for your virtues.
Forgiveness is the OdOr OF sweet
flowers when trampled upon.
He who waits to do a great deal at
once will never do anything.
All there is of honest craftsmanship
consists in combiningiudiWdual mean-
nesses for the public good.
Never despise humble services:
when large ships run aground, little
boats may pull them Off
Equality" says a French writer,
"means q desire to lie equal to your
superior, and superior to your equal.
BE noble, and the nobleness that
Ii, rs in other men, sleeping but never
dead, will rise in majesty to meet
your own.
[ see hundreds of mcn who have
what you call religion, with whom
should scorn to exchange my irreli-
gion.- Kingsley.
There would he no evil speakers if
there were no evil hearers. 1t is in
scandal as in robbery-the receiver Is
as bad as the thief.
Goodness, and absence Of heat and
haste, indicate fine qualities. A gem
| tleman makes no noise, lady Is
serene.-[R. w. Emerson.
Though health may be enjoyed
without gratitude, it cannot be sported
with without loss, or regained by cour-
age Buckminster.
He who commences with certainty
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 in the clouds; but they are
translated for the masses by the rain
drops into better understood lessons Of
utility.
Books are company; and the COM
pany OF bad books is as dangerous rs
the company of bad associates,
while that of good books IS like that
of good men.
Pastime is q word that should never
be used, but in bad sense; it Is vile
to say a thing is agreeable, because it
helps to pass the time away Shcn-
stone.
Education is u better safeguard Of
liberty than a standing army. five
retrench the wages of the schoolmas-
ter, we must raise those of the recruit
ing sergeant. Everett.
Ifyou would always be discreet,
Five things observe with care
OfwhOm you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
Youth and age have too little SYM
pathy with each other. Ifthe young
would remember that they may be
old, and the old remember that they
have been young, the world would be
happier.
"Thc great end and object OF life,"
said Socrates, "is the perfection Of the
intellect, the great moral duty OF man
is knowledge, and the object of all
knowledge is one, namely: Truth,
the Good, the Beautiful, the Divine
| Reason
There is something ineXprcssibly
exciting to the mind in losing ones
self in the inlinity of space; it at once
takes away from life il, little cares
and desires, and from reality its other.
wise oppressive weight Humboldt.
1t is a terrible thought to remember
that nothing can be forgotten. have
somewhere read, that not an oath is
uttered that does not continue to vi.
brate through all time, in the wide
spreading current of sound; not Il
prayer lisped, that its record Is not to
he found stamped on the laws of ma
ture by the indelible seal of the Al
nights will Cooper.
Before came to London, being at
q prayer-meeting, when a very quaint
preacher prayed for ME, | did not un-
derstand his prayer for a long time
it was that when L got to London
might be delivered from the "bleating.
ing of the sheep" He meant that
must not care what people said about
me-if some praised me and Others
blamed me- [Spurgeon.