The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-03
GOLDEN WORDS.

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de who wants content doesn't find
an easy chair.
Envy is hOnor's most secret one-
my.
Silent deeds are better than unprof-
liable 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 is some
thing to your credit.-[Punch.
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.-[ Algcr.
1t is a great misfortune not 70 en-
dure misfortune Bion.
Those who have not suffered, know
not what they have to gain. Il Alger
He who waits to do q great deal at
once, win never do any ything.--[Dr,
johnson.
Prefer diligence before idleness,
unless you esteem rust above bright
ness Plato.
lie is not only idle who does moth
ing, but lie is idle who might be bet
ter employed.-[Socrates.
Really TO inform the mind is 20 cor
rect ard enlarge the heart.
A true religious instinct never de-
privcd man of one single joy.
Persecution and aflliction and trial
hasten the fruit-buds Of truth.
Let your promises be sincere and
within the compass Of your ability.
If you want TO glide smoothly, use
the oil of patience freely.
A mind full of knoWledc is a mind
that never fails.
Sorrows rain brings blossoms and
bird-soIg's to the tree of knowledge.
He that loses his conscience has
nothing left that is worth keeping.
Learn that happiness is not outside.
a good heart and clear conscience
bring happiness, which no riches and
no circumstance alone ever do.
BE not sorry that men do not know
you, be not sorry that you are ignO-
rant of mem 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
illustratc PERSONS character.
The greatest charm of books is,
perhaps, that we see IN them that
other mon have suffered as we have.
Sorrow gathers around great souls
as storms do around the mountains
but like them, they break the storm
and purify the air of the plsi1 be-
meath them.
A wife is better chosen By the ear
than by tho eye. 4 good wife is the
Gift of God and the workmanship OF
a good husband. Many blame the
wife for their own shiftless life.
Do daily and hourly your duty do
it patiently aud thoroughly. Do it
as il presents itself; do it at the mo-
ment, and let it be its own reward.
Never mind whether 1t is known OF
acknowledged or not but do not tail
to do it.
The greatest man is he who choos.
ses the right with invincible resoln-
sion: who resists the sorest tempta-
,tious from within and without; who
bears the heaviest burdens cheerful
lv: and whose reliance on the truti
I'd virtue, on God, is the most un'
Talt, wing.
1boro- Is 40 funeral SO sad to follow
a. r, -aerRi 0f our own youth
o,I,,;cL DC hs We been pampering witt
E,,,S daSires n, NlbttiOus hopes, and al
t,a bricht berries that hang in poison
Gus clusters over tia path OF lie.
Tbe new friends " rhom we maxi
ofter a certain age, and by whom w
seek to fill the places of tho y wLlOIIl "
have lost, are TO the earlier C,ueS VIVA m
glass ewes, false teeth aud cork -Sgs al,
10 real eyes, natural teeth ana leSS
flesh and bone.
The best thing to give your enemy 4
is forgiveness TO your opponent 10
erance; to q friend, your heart; to YOU
child, q good example to father
defference; to your mother, conduc
that will make her proud of her son
to yourself, respect TO all men, chari
; ty to God, obedience.
The ever-womanly, the true woman
soul, coming nearer to us and within
All this smoke and storm of woman
rights agitation, or in spite of it, ther
will appear a new and fairer vision @
the nature and destiny of a woman
our earthly companion and our heaV
enly helper Il Rev. DIR. Osgood.
there is DO praying possible to
-. until he becomes again enoug
ii not to calculate his rapture
onJ not tn crave an equivalent.-LJoh
Weiss.