The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-05-09
n And SENTIMENT.

from God, who lsoor home. - " ordsworth.
Patience surpasscs learning.
Syllables govern the world John
Selden.
Love is the spark that burns up the
mountains Of iniquity.
The whole earth is the monument OF
illustrious men, Pericles.
A beautiful external life symbolizes
beautiful internal life.
To zee what is right and not to do
is want of courage. Confucius.
Gain one clear distinct truth, and it
becomes q center of light.
Man must will the goodand the great;
the rest comes rs decveod. - Humboldt.
Men blush less for their crimes than
for their weakness and vanity
Bruyere.
Characters never change. Opinions
alter; characters are only Developed
Disraeli.
Learning without thought is labor
lost; thought without learning is per-
ilous. Il Confucius.
Love seldom hauntS the heart where learn
ing lies,
Pope.
Genius unexalted is no more genius
than a bushel of acorns is u forest OF
oaks IBeecher.
An ambassador is an honest man
sent to lie abroad for the common
wealth. Sir Henry Walton.
At night thou must go in prayer as q
beggar, if by day thou wilt carry thyself
rs Il king.-LSaadi.
We cannot look, however imperfectly,
upon IL great man without gaining some
thing by him.-Carlyle.
There is very little difference to me
between the society of fools and men
Of sense Montesquieu.
The pleasure of love is in loving.
We are happier in the passion we feel
than in thatwe excite R~ochefoucauld.
Extravaganza leads to insubordina-
tion, and parsimony to mcaness. Ii is
better to be mean than to be insubor-
dinate. - Confucius.
DIR. Johnson once said, it matters not
how n man dies, but how he lives. The
art of dying is not of Importance, .%itlasts
so short II time.
70 n man who looks long at the sun,
the sun imprints itself on everything
he looks ut. So it is with II man who
looks long ut God. Taulcr.
To be able to learn that what is true is
true, and that what is false is false, this
is the mark and character of intelli-
gence. u Swcdenborg.
TO know, to esteem, to lovc-and then to
Makes up llfe's tale to many a feeling heart.
[COleridge.
The devil hath nOkin all his q%uiver's choice
An arrow for the heart like IA sweet voice.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the
reason?
Why, II il prosper none dare call it treason.
lSlr John Harrington.
Religion is the basis upon which civil
government resistant from whichpow-
or derives it's authority, laws their efli-
cacy, and both their sanction.
The putting in order is a delightful
occupation, and is at least analogous to
a virtue. Virtue is the love of moral
order Henry Crabbo Robinson.
Great efforts fr9WB. ,GYfaGppy life. The
thG ndI labor is a burden to him who pas
no motive for performing 1t.
the first business, and success n second
ary consideration-is not this the way
to exalt virtue?- Confucius.
The minds of some of our statesmen,
like the pupil of the human eye, CON
tract themselves the more strongerllglt
there is shed upon them Moore.
Lutller's attack on. che Romish cor
ruptions saved Rome and gave the pa
pacy Il new lease, as uucapping the CEN
trail fire keeps the earth from uplifting.
Robert Hall said of Kippis: He might
be Il very clever nan by nature, for
aught l know, but he laid so many
books upon his head that his brains
could not move.
am glad there is something that |
hate, for otherwise IL is in danger OF
falling into the habit of literally finding
all things good in their place; and that
is destructive of all true feeling
Goethe.
a. man should say, I am not concern
ed that 1 have no place. am concern
| ed how [ may fit myself for one. / am
not concerned that I'm not known-l
seek to be worthy to be known Con
ucius.
We arc all sculptors and painters, and
| or material is orr own flesh and blood
and bones. Any noblcness begins at
once to refine n mans features, any
mcanness or sensuality toimbrutc them.
-[Thoreau.
Private sincerity is public welfare. A
common faith is u fortress We agree to
| defend, and have to desert. How
MANY creeds once alive and swarminS
| with champions resemble the monldy
castles on the Danube and Rhine!-
Bartol.
Dean Stanley lately said, in a sermon
to the printers of London, that once
architecture was the press, and told
great thoughts to the world in stone;
but now the press was architecture, and
is building up the world OF ideas and
usagcs,
70 all mon is their day of death APP
pointed, and they cannot postpone or
advance it one hour. Wilt thou govern
the world which God governs? Thy
lot was cast beforehand, aud whithcrso-
ever it leads, thou must follow. The
Koran.
Nothing is so cgotistical MS tho en-
joymont of omance and poetry. 1t is
nothing more than looking into a mir
ror. The novel reader crawls into the
skins of all the heroes he admires, he
fills them out, strides in them, and,
when he glorifies the original, is Sc