The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-02-01
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GOLDEN WORDS.
One thought fills immensity.

Make nOG your bail 700 iar8e lor
your ship.
The cistern contains tho fountain
overhows.
Be like spring lock, reader to shut
than to open.
Adversely willingly undergone is tho
greatest virtue.
Whatever makes men happier makes
them better.
Envy is ignorance imitation sui
eide Emerson.
Be rigid to yourself and gentle to
Others Confucius.
Never let your honest convictions be
laughed down.
Pray devotedly, and hammer on
stoutly. Il Sancho Panza.
Old Erasmus said, 81 feel better
man for reading Cicero"
There is heroic innocence, as well
as heroic courage.
Have no friend who is morally infe-
rior to Jourself.- Confucius.
1t costs more to avenge wrongs than
to bear them.
Coleridge defines poetry as "the
best words in their best places"
The loneliest of all mortals are those
who are in advance of their age.
We should not retain the remem-
brance of faults we have once forgiven.
Give me a little thought said tho
dying Herder, that L may console my
self.
TO forgive our enemies, yet hope
that God will punish them, is not to
forgive enough.
The grand essentials to happiness
are something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for.
TO aucceed, sNys Emerson, 'ono
must enter into the game; and whirl
with the whirling world
All men at birth arc good alike at root,
| But afterwards they differ much in fruit
Chinese CatechiSm.
As it isthc characteristic ofgreat wits
to say much in few words, 50 it is Of
small wits, to talk much and say moth
ing Rochcfoucault.
Truth is immortal; the sword can
not pierce it, fire cannot consume it,
prisons cannot incGrcerate it, famine
cannot staryc it.
Who in politcncss, Lokman, was your guide?
The impolite! the learned sage rcplie
IChincse aphorism.
If you know anything that will make
Il brothers heart glad, run quickly
and tell it; but if it is something that
will cause a sigh, bottle it up.
Grief l5nits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can; and
common suffering is n far stronger
link than common JOY.
To fntter persons adroitly, one
must know three things-what they
are, what they think they are, and
what they want other people to think
they are.
The only way to kecpallyou friends
and make no enemies is to speak well
of people when names are mentioned
to you, but never to speak Of any one
to . third party.
A good man and n wise man may at
times be angry with the world, at
times gricved for it but be sure no
man was ever discontented with the
world who did his d4ty i'll it South
ey.
The worthicst people are most in
jured by slanderers; os we usually
find that to be the best fruit which the
birds have been picking at.
He that is taught to live upon little
owes more to his fathers wisdom than
he that has n great deal left him does
to his fathers care.
The greatest Of all injustice is that
which goes under the name of law;
and of ell sorts Of tyranny, the forcing
the letter Of the law against the equi-
ty, is the most insupportable.
Youth bcholds happiness cleaning
in prospect Age looks back on the
happiness of youth, and, instead of
hopes, seeks its enjoyment in thereof
lection of hopes. Thus happiness
ever resides in the imagination.
Courage, when genuine, is never
cruel. 1t is not fierce. It foresees
evil. Its trcpidations come either be-
fore or after danger. In tho midst OF
peril it is calm and cool. 1t is gener-
GUS, especially to the fallen. 1t is
seldom attained.
It is Il noble and great thing to COW
er the blemishes and to excuse the
failings of friend to draw curtain
before his stains, and to display his
projections to bury his weakness in
silence, but to proclaim his virtues on
the housetop.
One should not be downcast at fail
ures. They are often far better for
| the student than success. Hewho goes
! to school to his mistakes will always
have a good schoolmaster, and will
not be likely to become either idle or
! conceited.
There is no greater everyday virtuo
than cheerfulncss. This quality in
man among men is like sunshine to
the day, or gentle, renewing moisture
to parched herbs. The light OF
cheerful face difFuses itself, and COM
municates the happy spirit that in
spires it. The sorrcst temper must
sweeten il the atmosphere of contin-
uous good-humor.
A hearty laugh, which is ever in or
der, stirs up the physical man from
the coutre to the circumference, and
tends 10 improve the whole physical
and spiritual being. It promotes ami
NAL health aud spirits, and ID to tho
man what the tides are to the ocean;
it stirs mp the sluggish depths, pre-
We ats stagnation and keeps the whole
system fresh and wholesome. 1t is
what the Gulf stream is to the ocean,
q vivifying and warming element. The
convulsion produced by hearty laugh
ter penetrctes to the minutest blood
vessel, and causes the blood TO flow
with freshened impulse.
Persons who voted for Washington
as President for his first term are
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