Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-03
GOLDEN WORDS.


Seem not greater than lhOu art.
Business neglected is business lost.
Initiate a good man, but never
counterfeit him.
Take heed of a reconciled enemy.
Go MOTTO law without great cause
Goodness always enriches its pos
SCISSOR.
Fine gold fears not the fire, nor solid
stone thewater.
Ee that swells in prosperity will be
sure to shrink in adversely.
Good manners ore sure to procure
respect.
Few vices will often obscure many
virtues. ......
Only what we have wrought into
our character during life can we take
away with us.
Garments of beauty may cover, but
they can never impart worth to an
abandoned character.
There is no fault in poverty, but the
minds that think so are faulty.
Guilt is ever suspicious, and always
in fear.
Fair faces have sometimes fair con-
ditions.
Make not a fool of thyse!f to make
others merry.
Without the rich heart, wealth is
but an ugly beggar.
A good-hearted woman in the rosy
beauty of her joy is the loveliest object
in the world.
Let your promises be sincere, and
such as you can carry out.
Real glory springs from the silent
conquest of ourselves.
The world would be more happy if
persons gave up more time to an in
tercourse Of friendship.
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts. To believe in the heroic
makes heroes.
There is nothing that binds hea t to
heart SO quickly and so safely as trust
and be trusted.
Bad habits are the thistles Of the
heart, and every indulgence in them
is a seed from which will spring new
crop of weeds.
Harsh words are hailstones, which
if melted, would fertilize the tender
plants they batter down.
Let us not dote upon anything here
below, for heaven hath inscribed vani-
ty upon it.
II Others neglect their duty to you,
do not you neglect your duty to God,
yourself nOrto them.
Great efforts from great motives is
the best definition Of a happy life.
The easiest labor is q burthen to him
who has no motives Ior performing
it.
The perfection OF wisdom, and the
end of true philosophy, is proportion
our wants to our possessions, and our
ambitions to our capacities.
To men of poetic nature, life is apt
to become desert, in whose undulat-
ing air, as in that other desert, objects
appears both wavering and gigantic
He only is advancing in life whose
heart is getting softer, whose blood
warmer, whose brain quicker, whose
spirit is entering into a living peace.
Goodness of heart is mans best
treasure, his brightest honor, and no.
blest acquisition. 1t is that ray o.
the Divinity which dignifies hui
manity.
The whole sum OF human virtue
may be reduced to speaking the trutl
always, and doing good to others.
There is many an unfortunate one
whose heart, like Q sunbeam, always
appears loveliest in its breaking
asunder.
1t is a law of God that he who IL
willing to do good to others shall bt
happy and grow beautiful by the pro-
cess. Beauty casts her mantle on the
industrious and good.
He who rears up one child to Chris
tian virtue, or reCovers one falle1
creature to God, builds temple mor'
precious than Solomon's or st. Peter
more enduring than earth.
Herodotus informs us that the anci
ent Persians had a custom of devisint
their political schemes when inebriat
ed, and ofexecuting them when sober
A credulous person is like pitcher
borne by the ears, empty OF itself, bu
apt to hold whatever is put into it.
There is one single fact which on
may apply to all the wit and argu
ment of infidelity-namely that NJ
man on his death-bed ever repente'
being a Christian.
To be happy, the passions must b
cheerful and gay, not gloomy ant
melancholy. A propensity to hop
and JOY is real riches; one to fear AM
sorrow, real poverty.
Don't complain. The sun is Away
shining, the flowers are always bloom
ing, the birds are always singing, tn
golden grain is always waving-some
where in this wicked world.
Time, like flowing stream, make
haste into eternity, and is forever los
and swallowed up there; and while
is Fastening to its period, it sweep
away all things with it which are no
immortal.
AS the tiger preys upon every ami
NAL, both wild and domestic, so doe
selfishness exterminate every Othe
emotion, that it may reign undistur
ed in the soul.
Who sedulously attends, pointed
asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers
and ceases when he has no more t
say, is in possession of some of tn
best requisites of man.
Persons who are always cheerfl
and good-humored are very useful /
the world; they maintain peace an
happiness, and spread a thankful ten
per amongst all who live aroun
them.
1t often happens that they are th
best people whose characters haV
been most injured by slander, as "
often find that to be the sweetest fru
which birds have been picking at.