Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-02-03
GOLDEN WORDS.
One Thought fills immensity.

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The cistern contains the fountain
OYerdows.
Be like a spring look, reader 70 shut
than to open.
Adversity willingly undergone is the
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 hamper on
stoutly II Sancho Panza.
Old Erasmus said, 81 feel a better
man for reading Cicero"
There is heroic innocence, as well
as heroic courage.
Have no friend who is morally infe-
rior 10 Jourself.-- Oonfucius.
1t costs more to ayenge wrongs than
to bear them.
Coleridge defines poetry rs "the
best words in their best places"
The loneiiest Of all mortals are those
who are in advance Of their age.
We should not retain the remem-
branco Of faults we have once forgiven.
Give me a little thought, said the
dying Herder, that l may console my
self.
To forgive our enemies, yet hope
that God will punish them, is not 70
forgive enough.
The grand essentials to happiness
are something to do, something 10
love, and something to hope for.
To succeed, says Emerson, 'one
must enter into the game; and whirl
with the whirling world.
Allmon at birth are good alike at root,
But afterwards they differ much In fIuit
Chinese CGtschism.
As it isthe characteristic ofgreat wits
to say much in few words, 30 it is of
small wits, to talk much and say moth
ing Rochefouosult.
Truth is immortal; the sword can
not pierce it, fire cannot consume it,
prigons cannot inoarcerate it, famine
cannot starye it.
Who in politeness, Lokman, was your guidsH
TLoimpolite! thu learned sage replied.
lChinoSs aphorism.
II you know anything that will make
brothers heart glad, run quickly
and tell it; but if it is something that
will cause a sigh, bottle it up.
Grief knits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can and
common suffering is far stronger
link than common joy.
To fatter persona adroitly, ono
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 keep all your friends
and make no enemies ID to speak well
Of people when names are mentioned
to You, but never to speak of any ono
to a third party.
A good man and a wise man may at
times be angry with the world, at
times gricved for it; but be sure no
man vas ever discontented with the
world who did his dIty in it.-[South-
ey
The worthiest people are most in.
jurod by slanderers as we usually
find that to be the best fruit which the
birds hoyo been picking at.
/ He that Is taught 70 live upon little
owo7 more TO his fathers wisdom than
Ibetlet has a great deal left him does
20 hil iat slo --
The creates. of al injustice is that
which goes under the name Of law
and Of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing
the letter Of the law against tho equi-
ty, is the most insupportable.
Youth beholds happiness cleaning
in prospect. Age looks back on the
happiness Of youth, and, instead Of
hopes, seeks its enjoyment in therecol-
lection Of hopes. Thus happiness
ever resides in the imagination.
Courage, when genuine, is never
cruel. 1t is not fierce. 1t foresees
evil Its trepidations come either be-
fore or after danger. In the midst OF
peril it ia calm and cool. 1t is gener-
ous, especially to the fallen. II il
seldom attained.
It is a noble and great thing to Gov
er the blemishes and to excuse the
iailings cf a friend; to draw q curtain
beiora his stains, and to display his
perlections to bury his weakness in
silence, but to proclaim his virtues on
the housetop,
One should not be downcast at fail.
wes. They are often far better for
the studontthOn success. Hewho goes
to school to his mistakes will always
have a good schoolmaster, and will
not be likely to become either idle OF
conceited.
There is no greater everyday virtue
than cheerfulness. This quality il
man among men is like sunshine tc
the day, or gentle, renewing moistu4t
to parched herbs. The light Of
cheerful face difuses itself, and com
muuicates the happy spirit that in
, spires it. The sourost temper nus
swoeten in the atmosphere of contin
, uou3 good-humor.
A hearty laugh, which is ever in or
! der, stirs up the physical man from
the centre to the circumference, anC
tends to improve the whole physica
and spiritual being. It promotes ami
nal health and spirits, and is to tn
! man what the tides are to the ocean
! it sJirs up the sluggish depths, pre-
. We lts stagnation and keeps the Who'll
, system fresh and wholesome. 1t
! what the Gull stream is to the ocean
! a vivifyirg andwarming element. TIL
, convulsion produced by hearty laugh
: ter penetrates to the minutest blood
S vessel, and causes the blood to ho'
). with freshened impulse.
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e Coon MANNERS -Youngfolks shoul
o be mannerly. How to be 80, is th
a question Many good girl and bo
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