The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-08-24
GOLDEN WORDS.

I
/ 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 trampled upon.
He who waits to do great deal al
once viii never do anything.
All there is of honest craftsmanship
consists in combining Individual 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 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 irTeli-
gion.-t Kingsley.
There would be no evil speakers if
there were no evil hearers. It is in
scandal as In rObbeFy-the receiver IS
IS bad as the thief.
Goodness, and absence OF heat and
hGste, indicate fine qualities. A gen.
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
win 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 ape company; and the COM
pany of bad books Is as dangerous as
the company of bad assOclciates,
while that of good books Is like that
Of good men.
Pastime is a word that should never
be used, but in a bad sense; it is vile
to say thing is agreeable, because it
helps to pass the time away.-[S [Shen-
stone.
Education is better safeguard of
liberty than standing army. II we
retrench the wages Of the schOOlmas-
ter, we must raise those of the recruit
ing sergeant. Everett.
If you would always be discreet,
Five things observe with care
Of whom you speak, TO whom You speak,
And how, and when, and where.
Youth and age have too little SYM
q farF -
would remember that they may be
old, and the old remember that they
have been young, the world would be
happier.
"The great end and object of Iife,"
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 inexpressibly
exciting to the mind in losing ones
self In the infinity of space; it at once
takes away from life its little cares
and desires, and from reality its ether
wise oppressive weight Humboldt
1t is a terrible thought to remember
that nothing can be forgotten. / have
read, that not an oath is
uttered that does not continue to VIZ
brate through all time, in the wide
spreading current of sound; not a
prayer lisped, that its record is not to
be found stamped on the laws of ma
ture by the indelible seal of the AL
nights will Cooper.
Before I came to London, being at
a prayer-meeting, when a very quaint
preacher prayed for me, did not un-
derstand his prayer for a long time;
il was that when / got to London /
might be delivered from the 'tbleating-
ing of the sheep" He meant that L
must not care what people said about
blamed me- LSpurgeon.