The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-09-29
GOLDEN WORDS.

by sowing. -.-.-..
Nothing is more intolerable than
proud ignorance.
Nothing can be we'll done that is
done out of season.
A wise man may appear Ikea fool
in FOOLS company.
Advice is thrown away where the
case admits of no counsel.
A thousand probabilities will not
make one truth.
He who does not honor his wife
dishonors himself.
He who fears death has already
lost the life he covets.
Every man is the architect of his
own fortune.
The greatest learning is to be seen
in the greatest plainness.
Though good life may not silence
calumny, 1t will disarm it.
Joys are flowers dropped in our
path by the hand of Providence.
The childhood shows the man, as
morning shows the day.-Milton.
There is always a need for man to
go higher, if he has tho capacity to
do so.
He hath riches sufficient who hath
enough to be charitable.-Sir L.
Brown.
The rays ofhappiness, like those of
light, are colorless when unbroken.-
Longfellow.
But Satan nov Is wiser than Of yore,
And tempts BY making rich, not making poor.
Pope.
There is lust in man no charm can tame,
0f loudly publishing his neishbors shame
Harvey.
A pure character is like polished
steel-if dimmed by a breath, it al
most instantly RECEIVERS its bright
ness.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you il the rtorm; swarms
Of insects will TT, ID you in the
sunshine.
Ever the lesson of history has been
this: the recoil from Journalism has
been skepticism; the reaction from
A helping word to one in trouble
is often like q switch on railroad
track-but one inch between wreck
and a smooth rolling prosperity.
If truth be established, objections
arc nothing. The one is founded on
our knowledge, the other in our ig-
nOrance.
1t is one of the worst effects OF pros
perity to make man a vortex in
stead of a fountain, so that, inst cad of
throwing out, he learns only to
draw in.
a friend should be one i'm whose
understanding and virtue we can
equally confide, and whose opinion
we can value at once for its business
and its sincerity.
1t is not the most demonstrative OF
our friends who care most about us.
Scores of people wish us well who
do not feel compelled to stop us in
the street and say so.
A mans possessions are Just as
large as his own soul. If his title
deeds cover more, the surplus acres
own him, not he the acres.
There are truths which some men
despise because they have not exam
ined them, and which they will not
examine because they despise them.
Liberty viii not descend to a peo-
pie; the people must raise themselves
to liberty; it is a blessing which
must be earned before it can be en-
joyed.
"Calumny," says Archbishop
Leighton, "would soon starve and
die of itself if nobody took it up and
gave it lodging" ''There would not"
says Bishop Hall, "be so many open
mouths if there were not so many
open ears"
"The great end and object of life,"
said Socrates, ''is the perpetuation of
intellect; the great moral duty of |
man is knowledge; and the object |
all knowledge is one, namely-Truth,
the Good, the Beautiful, the Divine |
Reason.
Life is series of surprises, and |
would not be worth taking or keep
ing were it not. God delights to |
isolate us every day, and hide from
us the past and the future.
When men are most sure and AFRO
CANT, they are commonly the most
mistaken, and have then given views
TO passion, without proper delibera-
ton and suspense which can alone
secure them from the absurdities.
Laziness grows on people; it be-
gins in cobwebs and ends i'm iron
chains. The more business a man
has to do the more he can accom-
plish, for he learns to economise hfs
time.
Sound economy is a sound under
standing brought into action; il is
calculation realized; it is the doc
trine of proportion reduced to prac-
tice; it is foreseeing contingencies,
and being prepared for them.
Make point ever so clear, it is
great ODDS that man whose habits,
and the bent of whose inclination and
mind lie in contrary way, shall be
unable to comprehend il, so weak a
thing is competition with inclina-
ton.
1t is folly to call the joys of child
hood the greatest. They are like the
earliest flower Of spring, the crocus,
lovely and richly tinted, but small
and sccntless. 1t is summer that
brings forth flowers of matured
splendor and fragrance.
Politeness is only kindness polished
a little. For a good man to become
q Chesterfield is one of the easiest
things in the world; for bad man
to become such, is, however, one of
the most difficult. He has not only
TO overcome habits, but nature.
Dew falls but little upon the smooth
and brilliant surface of polished steel
or FURNISHED gold, while coarser and
less costly objects are freely wet
The gentle dew of the heavenly grace
often takes effect upon the rude and
while the refined, the
tasteful and the critical are left, like
the frost-work, brilliant and beauti-
fal, but cold and dead.
Vanity is rather mark of humili-
ty than of pride. Vain men delight
in telling what honors have been
done them, what great company they
have kept, and the like, by which they
plainly confess these honors were
more than their due, and such as their
friends would not believe if they had
not been told whereas a man truly