The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-02

The cistern contains the fountain
oYerfoBs.
Be like a spring lock, reader to shut
than to open.
Adversely willingly undergone is the
greatest virtue.
Whatever makes men happier makes
them better.
Envy is ignorance imitation sui
cide.-[ Emerson.
| Be rigid to yourself and gentle to
others.-[ Confucius.
Never let your honest convictions be
laughed down.
Pray dev0tedIy, and hammer on
stoutly. \ [Sancho Panza.
Old Erasmus said, ''I feel better
man for reading Cicero"
There is a heroic innocence, rs well
as heroic courage.
Have no friend who is morally infe-
TiOr to 5Oursef.-[ [Confucius.
It costs more to avenge wrongs than
/ to bear them.
Coleridge defines poetry as 'fthe
best words IN their best pisces.
The loneliest of all mortaIs are those
who are in advance of their age.
We should not retain the remeni=
brance Of faults we have once forgiven.
Give me little thought said the
dying HerdeT, that may console my
self.
To forgive our enemies, vet hope
that God will punish them, Is not TO
forgive enough.
The grand essentials to happiness
fsa1-r NNn~T i 1
love, and something to hope for.
TO succeed, says Emerson, 'one
must enter into the game; and whirl
with the whirling world.
An men at birth are good alike at root.
But afterwards they differ much ia fruit
EChinese CRtechism.
As it is the characteristic ofOreatwits
to say much In few words, so it Is of
small wits, to talk much and say moth
ing lROchefoucault. .s1
Truth is immortal; the sword can-
not pierce it, fire cannot consume it,
prisOns cannot incaroerate il, famine
cannot starve it.
Who in Doliteness, Tokman. was your guideT
Ihe 1mpolite! the learned sage replied.
LChinese aphorism.
If you know anything that viii mako
brothers heart glad, run quickly
and tell 1t; but if it is something that
will cause sigh, bottle it up.
Grief knibs two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can and
common suffering is a far stronger
link than common Joy.
To fatter persons adroitIy, one
must know three thjngs-what they
are, what they think they are, and
what they want other people to think
they are.
The only way to keep ALL your 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 a wise man may at
times be angry with the world, at
times grieved for it but be sure no
man was ever discOntented with the
world who did his dLlty in it.-[South-
ey.
The worthiest people are most in
jured by slanderers as 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 a 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 all sorts of tyranny, the forcing
the letter of the law against the equi-
ty, is the most insupportable.
Youth beholds happiness cleaning
In prospect. Age looks back on tho
happiness of youth, and, instead of
hopes, seeks It's enjoyment in thereeoI-
lection of hopes. Thus happiness
ever resides IN the Imagination. ..
Courage, when genuine, is never
cruel. 1t IS not fierce. It foresees
evil. Its trepidations come either be-
fore or after danger. Tn the midst Of
peril 1t is calm and cool. It is gener-
Gus, especially to the fallen. It is
seldom attained.
It is a noble and great thing TO Gov
er the blemishes and to excuse the
faihngs Of a friend to draw a curtain
before his stains, and to display his
perfectiOns 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 viii always
not be likely to become either idle or
conceited.
There IS no greater everyday virtue
than cheerfulness. This quality IN
man among men is like sunshine to
the day, or gentle, renewing moisture
to Parchcd herbs The light of q
cheerful face difuses itself, and com
municates the happy spirit that in
spires 1t. The sourest temper must
sweeten in the atmosphere of contin-
uous good-humOr.
A hearty laugh, which is ever In or
der, stirs mp the physical man from
the centre 20 the circumference, and
tends to improve the whole physical
and spiritual being It promotes AMI
NAL health and spirits, and Is TO the
man what the tides are to the ocean
it stirs up the sluggish depths, pre-
We its stagnation and keeps the whole
system fresh and wholesome. It Is
what the Gulf sire IN is to the ocean,
a vlvifyIng and warming element. The
conyulsiOn produced by hearty laugh
ter penetrates to the<sninutest blood
vessel, and causes the blood to flow
with a freshened impulse.
GooD MASsErs. Youngfolks should
be mannerly. How to be so, is the
question. Many a good girl and boy
feel that they can't behave to suit
themselves IN the presence Of compa~
ny. They feel timid, baBhful and
self-distrustful the moment they are
addressed by a stranger, or appear IN
company. There is but one way to get
over this feeling and acquire easy and
graceful manners, that is, do the best