Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-08-26
GOLDEN WORDS.

Be thine own palace or the world
thy jail.-lDoure.
Be praised not for your ancestors
but for your virtues.
forgiveness is the odor Of sweeI
flowers when trampled upon.
He who waits to do great deal al
once will never do anything.
All there is Of honest craftsmanship
consists in cOmbiningiudividual mean-
nesses for the public good.
Never despise humble services:
when large ships run aground little
boats may pull them of.
Equality says a French writer,
"means 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 irreli-
gion. Kingsley.
There would be no evil speakers If
there were no evil hearers. 1t is in
scandal as in robbery-the receiver Is
IS bad as the thief.
Goodness, and absence Of heat aud
haste, indicate fine qualities. A gen.
tleman makes no noise, a 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.
lie who commences with certainty
will 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 are company; and the COM
pany OF bad books Is as dangerous as
the company Of bad associates,
while that Of good books ls like that
Of good men.
pastime is a word that should never
he used, but in bad sense; it is vile
to say thing Is agreeable, because it
helps to pass the time away Shen-
stone.
Education is Il better safeguard Of
liberty than standing army. five
retrench the wages Of the schoOlmas-
ter, we must raise those OF the recruit
Ing sergeant Everett.
II you would always be discreet,
Five things observe with care
OF whom you spcnk, TO whom you peak.
And how, and when, and where.
Youth and age have too little. SYM
pathy with each other. Ifthe young
would remember that they may be
old, and the old remember that they
have been young, the world would be
happier.
"Thc great end and object of life, -
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 terrible thought to remember
that nothing can be forgotten. | have
somewhere read, that not an oath Is
uttered that does not continue to Vi
brate through all time, in the wide
spreading current of sound; not q
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,-LCoopeT.
Before came to London, being at
prayer-meeting, when very quaint
preat her prayed for ME, | did not I'M
derstand his prayer for a long time;
it was that when got to London |
might be delivered from the "bleating-
ing of the sheep" He meant that |
must not care what people said about
me-if some praised me and Others
blamed me- Sturgeon.