The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-29
GOLDEN WORDS.

What is virtue hat medicine, and
vice but a wound
He must be q thorough fool who
can learn nothing from his own folly.
Itis much easier to keep out Of a rut
than to get out.
Kindness, like grain, will increase
by sowing.
Nothing is more intolerable than
proud ignorance.
Nothing can be well done that is
done out of season.
a wise man may appear like q 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
oWR fortune.
The greatest learning is to be seen
in the greatest plainness.
Thougha a good life may not silence
calumny, it viii 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 a man to
go higher, if he has tho capacity to
do so.
BE hath riches sufficient who hath
enough to be charitable.-Sir T.
Brown.
The rays ofhappiness, like those of
light, are colorless when unbroken,-
Longfellow.
ButSatan now is wiser than Of yore.
and tempts by making rich. not making poor.
There 6h is a lust in man no charm can tamo,
Y. " loudly publishing his neighbors shame
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 in the storm; swarms
OF insects will surround you in the
sunshine.
Ever the lesson Of history has been
this: the recoil from Journalism has
been skepticism; the reaction from
superstition is infidelity.
a helping word to one in trouble
IS often like a 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.
It is one Ofthe worst effects ofpros-
| peTity to make a man a vortex in
! stead of fountain, 80 that, instead OF
throwing out, he learns only to
draw in.
A friend should be one in whose
understanding and virtue we can
| equally cOnfde, and whose opinion
we can value at once for it's business
and its sincerity.
II 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. r
A mans possessions are Just rs
| 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 win not
examine because they despise them.
Liberty viii not descend to q peo-
pie epeOple must raise themselves
to liberty; it is a blessing which
must be earned before it can be en-
ljoyed.
Calumny," says Archbishop
Leighton, would SOON starYe 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"
Life is a series of surprises, and
would not be worth taking or keen
! 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 arro-
| 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 IN iron
chains. The more business & man
has TO do the more ne can accom-
plish, for he learns to cconomise his
time.
Sound economy Is q sound under
standing brought into action; il is
calculation realized IL is the doc.
trine of proportion reduced to prac-
tice; it is foresceing contingencies
and being prepared for them.
Make n point ever. so clear, it is
great odds that a man whose habits
and the bent OF whose inclination and
mind lie in a contrary way, shall be
unable TO comprehend il, so weak a
thing is composition with iRclina-
ton.
It's folly 10 cali the joys Of child
hood the greatest. They are like the
earliest flower Of spring, the crocus
} lovely and richly tinted, but s1nal
/ and sccntIess. It Is summer thai
brings forth flowers of maturet
, splendor and fragrance.
PolHeness is only kindness polished
: q little. For a good man 10 becom,
a Chesterfield is one Of the easies
things in the world for a bad maI
to become such, IS, however, one o
the most difficult. He has not onl'
to overcome habits, but nature.
Dew falls but little upon the smootI
and brilliant surface ofpolished stee
: or FURNISHED gold, while coarser ant
less costly objects are freely wei
? The gentle dew the heavenly gPac
often takes effect upon the rude an,
! uncultivated, while the refined, tn
Q tasteful and the critical are left, lik