The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-01-26
GOLDEN WORDS.

OeH-naue men worship their maker.
Temperance is corporeaI pigty.-
Parker.
The idle hour is the devils oppor-
tunity.
Charity is an eternal debt, aud with
out limit
The soul Of sweet delight can never
be defiled.
The thankful receiver bears 81 pienE-
full harvest.
He that is too proud to asL, IS too
good to receive.
In prosperity we need moderation :
IN adversely, patience.
Face all things; oven adversely =
polite to mans face
he who has suffered you to impose
on him, knows You.
Do not insult misery, deride iafrmi-
ty, nor despise defor1ity.
Swift says, "Censure is the tax a
man pays to the public for being emil
nent."
A noble heart, like the sun, shows
its greatest cOuntenance in its lowest
estate.
It is as great q point of wisdom to
hide Ignorance as to discover Anowl-
edge.
Confucius says, when You have
learned to live well, you viii knowhow
to die we'll"
A Chinese prOverb hath It that he
who fOrgives everything fOrgiyes him
self nothing.
Aspasia says, eff he love me, the
1 Ts1o &c 30 I,
he ceases"
Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man is richer, or hap
pier, or wiser for it.
| None more impatiently suffer iniu-
| RES than those that are most forward
IN doing them.
Great powers and natural gifts do
not bring privileges to their possessors
SO much as they bring duties.
It is always in your power to make a
friend by smiles. What a folly, then,
to make an enemy by frowns.
II a man speaks or acts with a pure
thought, happiness follows him like &
| shadow that never leaves him.
When a man has no design but to
speak plain truth, he may say n greet
deal IN very narrow compass.
1t is a mortifying reflection for any
man to consider what he has done,
compared to what he might have done.
Men often omit the good they might
do In consequence of thinking about
that which Is out Of their power to DO.
Are you in earnesto seize this very minute!
H W nat yoq can do, or think You cs.e, begin it,
only engage, and thCu the mind grows hcalgl;
Begin it, aud the work VIII be completed.
Mankind are odd creatures. One
half censure what they practice, and
the other half practice what they
| censure.
All great things are done by Titles.
Atoms make worlds. The greatest for
tunes consist of farthinGs. Iifeis made
up Of moments.
a pound of energy with an ONCE Of
talent VIII achieve greater result
than pound Of talent with an ounce
of energy.
The violet grows low and covers it
self with It's own tears, and Of all flow
ers yields the sweetest fra@rpnce. Such
IS humility.
Oh! the blessings of home whoro
old and young mix kiudiy-the young
unawed, the old unchillod, in unrc-
| served communion.
The passions are in some degree at
the mercy of the thoughts, rs are the
/ thoughts Of the passions. II is q NOR
al duty, therefore, to think rightly.
Few things are more necessary in
/ life than Judgment, fTInuess and corr-
age With them a man can rarely
| fail; without them no can rarely sue
! ceed.
The first qualities wanted in all who
deal with the education of children
! patience, seli-c0ntroi, and youthful
heart that remembers it's own early
days.
Plato says, ''Seven years Of silent
! inquiry arc needful fora man 30 learn
| the truth bat fourteen in order TO
! learn how to make Io known to his fel-
! lOW-men."
The most fruitful and natural cxer-
else Of the mind, IN myopiuion, is con
versation. / find the use OF It more
sweet than any other action IN life
! [MOntaigne.
Brevity IS in writing what charity i5
to all the other virtues. RighteGus-
ness Is worth nothing without the one,
nor authorship without tho other
| Sydney Smith.
Generosity during Efeis q very differ
ent thing from generosity IN the hour
of death; F.; one proceeds from genuine
liberality and benevoIence; the other
from pride on tear.
Rev. John Hall says, sDo your du-
ties and let wealth come to You. if God
will; then there is nope that your cul-
ture and capacity to use it VIII keep
pace with its growth"
Let every man be himself; let him
cultivate, first, Eclf-rospect, and then
respect for Others. Self-respect gives
self-pOssession, and self-possession is
one Of the crowning graces Of society.
We recognize goodness wherever we
find it. 'Tis the same helpful inhu-
ence, Identifying the meaBest as the
greatest service by its manners, doing
most when least conscious, as If it did
it not AlcOtt.
Kind words are the bright flowers Of
/ earth's existence; use them, and esDe-
cially around the fireside circle. They
are Jewels beyond price, and powerful
to heal the wounded heart and make
the weighed-dCwn spirit glad.
Bacon says, 'sHe that gives good ad-
vice, builds with one hand; ne that
gives good counsel and example. builds
with the other; but he that gives good
admonitron and bad example. builds
with one hand and pulls down with the
Otheru
There Is dew IN one flower and not IN
another, because one opens its cup 10
take it IN, while the other closes itself
and the drop runs of. So God rains
goodness and mercy as wide as the dew;
and if we lack them, it Is because we
VIII not open our hearts to receive
them.