The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-04
NO. 46.
GOLDEN WORDS.

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ment.
Without leisure, says Buckle, the,s
can be no knowledge,
Beauty, unaccompsnied by virtue,
IL as flower without perfume.
Ridicule often parties resentment,
but resentment never parried Iidiculs.
Many a mans vices have at anA
been nothing worse than good quaak
ties run wild.
He that soweth to the spirit, shall Of
the spirit reap life everlasting.
Be not sorry that men do not knew
you, but he sorry that you are ign GRANT
Enter not into the path OF the wick
ed, and go not in the path Of evi1
men.
Merkness is virtue by which =
man may know christian better
than by his name.
The poorest education that teashss
self control, is better than the beat
that neglect5 it.
Perfection of mind consists OF Arm>
ness and mildness, Offorce and tendee-
ness, OF vigor and grace.
Man was created to search for trath,
TO love the beautiful, to desire what
is good, and to do what is best.
After long experience Of the world,
| affirm before God never knew .
rogue who was not unhappy.-Junins.
Cast forth thy act, thy word, into
the everything, ever-working uni
verse; it s a seed grain that cannot
die. Carlyle.
Follow peace with all men, and
holiness, without which no man shall
see the Lord.
The third Commandment says
"rhou shalt not take the name Of the
Lord thy God in vain"
liza man speaks or acts with Apars
thought, happiness follows him like
shadow that never leaves him.
When II believer is in darkness, and
endeavors to reason away his unbe-
lief, he will find all his reasoning but
lost labor.
Gross and vulgar minds will always
pay a higher respect to wealth than
to talent; for wealth, although 1t 10 .
far less efficient source OF power than
talent, happens to be far more intellt-
gible.
A bright aud beautiful bird In hsps.
1t will come to us amid the darkness
and sing the sWeetest song when our
spirits are sad.
Beauty flows in the waves Of lighh
radates from the human face divine,
and sparkles IN the pathway Of avery
child.
Opportunity Is the flower OF time,
and as the stock may remain when
| the flower il cut of, so time may 10
with us when the opportunity Is Ssns
| forever.
When our vices quit us, We Aatt%4
ourselves with the belief that II h we
quit them.
Hope is like a bad clock, forever
striking the hour OF happiness, wheth-
er II has come or not.
The benevolence of the genuine
child of God is iikea 8 majestic rlveS
| broad, placid and refreshing I'm In
course, and bis literality is bounded
only by his ability.
Apathy is one Of the worst moral
diseases, as 1t not only incapaoitatss
rs from combating the oucreaeh-
ments Of vice, but closes every avenue
of our souls to the approach of virtue.
The love OF the beautiful and trus,
like the dewdrop In the heart OF the
crystal, remains forever liquid in the
inmOst shrine OF a mans being.
There is no greater expoundsr OF
moral principal, no eloquent teacher
OF divine truth, who is more useful In
Gods world than business man who
carries his religion into his busiaess.
Birth into this life was tho death OF
the embryo life that preceded, and
the death Of this will be birth into
some new mode OF being.
He that hath spent much of his
| time III his study, will seldom be col
iected enough to think in q crowd, or
confident enough to talk in Que.
Every man thinks himself, In one
respect, OF more Importance In the
world than he il; but he is Of moro
Importance in another respect than he
| thinks himself. His influence and
example tell more than he generally
suppOses, often even upon persons who
seem but little to regard him.
The passions of men, when directed
by their reason, are the sources Of the
most ennobltug virtues, as well % the
means Of the greatest enjoyment;
but If they are permitted to become
the masters instead of the ministers OF
human conduct, they ara the suicidal
destroyers of hsppiness.
The fact that the word worth, when
applied to character, means moral
worth, shows that though men may
be dazzled by intellectual brilliancy,
their real aspect cannot be won with
out virtue.
Pleasure is rose near which there
ever grows u thorn Of evil. 1t 10 wis
dom's work to 80 carefully pluck the
roses rs to avoid the thorn, and lot ID
rich perfumes exhsle to heaven In
gratitude and alteration Of Him whs
gave the rose to blow.
AS roots of plants, by mysterious
forces, draw in the materials Of life
from the earth and throw them ap
ward, and themselves lying In darh-
ness, minister to shining glory OF blOs-
SONS and leaf In the sunlight above
so prayers uttered here In dArkns3
and tears and with no seen results,
shall in heaven disclose fruits WHOSE
transcendent lOveliness the utmost
wishes Of earth did not measure,