The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-10-27


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RELIGION Is tho best armor In the
world but the worst cloak.
EEALLY to inform tho mind il to
o,rrcct and enlarge tho heart.
No MAN can he elevated who does
not love something higher and bcttor
than himself.
WISDOM aud power, like plcty, arc
perfected through suffering.
DO NOT condemn or think hard Of
those who cannot see just as you see, or
judge 1t their duty to contradict you.
SANDS from the mountain; moments
make the year.
II good men are sad, it Is not because
they are good, but because they are not
better.
GET all you can, save all you can,
give all you can.
LOSE not thy own for tho sake OF
asking for it; twill give thee no
thanks.
THE generous heart should scorn n
pleasure which gives Others pain.
THE whole sum of human virtue may
be reduced to speaking the truth al
ways, and doing good to others.
MERIT readily recognizes merit.
Certainly he cannot have ii who doesn't
know it when he sees it.
ONE principal point of good breeding
is to suit ourselves to three several de-
grees of men-our superiors, our equals
and those below US.
A LITTLE philosophy inclineth 4
mans mind to atheism, but depth of
philosophy bringeth ones mind about
to religion.
HONEST industry is, after all, mans
only sure dependence for the double
blessing of contented mind and COM
Portable livelihood.
LOVE may exist without jealousy,
although this is rare but jealousy may
exist without love, and this is COM
mon.
AN hours industry will do more to
produce cheerfulness, suppress evil hu.
mors, and retrieve your affairs, than a
months moaning.
A MAN behind the times is apt to
speak i'll of them, on the principle that
nothing looks well from behind.
MEMS hearts ought not to be set
against one another, but set with one
another, and all against the evil thing
only.
THE happiness of the human race in
this world does not consist of our being
devoid of passions, but in our learning
to command them.
SOME men are kinder to tho occu-
pants of their kennels than to their
families. They will treat wife and
children like dogs, but not dogs them
selves SO.
A MAN should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong, which
is but saying, in other words, that he
is wiser today than he was yesterd ay.
IN all differences consider that both
you and your opponent are dropping
off, and that ere long your very memo
ries will be extinguished.
IMPERTURBABLE good temper is an
effectual defense against ill,natured sar-
casm. The laugh is never long against
the man who meets ridicule serenely.
AS WE hold caudle to the fame
until it is fully lighted, SO we must hold
ourselves to Christ and his word by
meditation.
Bestow all the time you can spare
from the necessary business of life, in
yourselfand those about you,
for their entrance into better life.
Ir is vain to hope to please all alike.
Let man stand with his face in what
direction he will, he must necessarily
turn his back on one half of the world.
NEVER hold anyone by the button or
the hand, in order to be heard out; for
if people are unwilling to hear you, you
had better hold your tongue than them.
WHO sedulously attends, pointedly
asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers,
and ceases when he has no more to say,
is in POSSESSION of some of the best
requisites of mau.
THERE is not SO ag0nizing a feeling
in the whole catalogue of human suf-
fering as the first conviction that the
heart Of the being whom we most ten.
derly love is estranged from us.
A WESTERN paper accuses a cotem-
porary of "dirty meanness," and re-
marks, we want him to understand |
that two can play at that game" A
rather frank aYOWal.