The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-08-31
Grains of Gold.

Many word at random spoken, May soothe or wound the heart that's broken. Scott.
 There's no God dare wrong worm.-Em- ers0n.
 Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
 What is virtue but medicine, and vice but wound 2-Hooker.
 The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.-lHitton.
 To be dextrous in danger is virtue, but to court danger is a weakness.
 The mere learning of languages is like ex- pending ones money for handsome purses.- J ?. Richtsr.
 Never owe any man more than you are able to pay, and allow no man to owe you more than you are able to lose.
 Woe to the physician who does not do his best for the beggar, just as for the million are !-Eduard EUereH Hale.
 Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly are we in the habit of paying for its counterfeit.-Hosea BalLow.
 I don't believe any one knows the sweet ness of the promises who underates the sanct- ity of the precept.-J. fl. Eraas.
 Without belief in personal immortality. religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like bridge ending in an abyss.
 Sense shines with double lustre when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man IS a jewell worth a kingdom.-Penn.
 The Philistinc did not acquire Samson's strength by capturing his hair, and the se- cret of genius IS not secured by gazing on it's clothes.
 Human Work, to be effectual, must be the result of clear thinking. It is true that much of the labor of life is performed with comparatively little thought, but it is not less the result of thought.
 He that speaketh against his own reason, speaks against his own conscience, and theie e. fore 1t is certain no man serves God with a good conscience who serves Him against his reason.-Jeremy IaylOr.
 Ignorance does not simply deprive us of advantages; it leads us to work our own misery it is not merely vacuum, void of knowledge, but plenum of positive errors, continually productive of unhappiness.-S uel Bailey.
 There is perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so be- nighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in man that actually and earnestly works; in idleness alone there is perpetual dispair.
 All the cares of the day aught to be laid aside with our clothes. None of them must be carried to bed with us; and in this respect, custom may obtain very great power over our thoughts. It is destructive practice to study in bed, and read till one falls asleep.
 man will never be just tO others who is not just to himself, and the first requisite of that justice is, that he should look every ob- igation, every engagement, every duty in the face. This applies as much to money as to more serious affairs, and as much to nations as to men.
 Notwithstanding the impression held in society with reference to the so-called "en- terprise" of the day, whereby men suddenly grow rich and influential, it is nevertheless true that no man can make or retain a good and useful position in life without possessing the habits of punctuality and temperance.
 If man begins to forget that he is a social being, member of body, and that the only truths which can avail him nything, the only truths which are worthy objects of his philosophical search, are those which are equally true for every man, which will equal ly avail every man, which he must proclaim, as far as he can to every man, from the proud est sage to the meanest outcast, he enters, believe, into he and helps forward the dis solution of that society of which he is a member.-C. Kingsley.
 l sometimes go musing along the street to see how few people there are whose faces look as though any joy had come down and sung in their souls. I can see the lines of thought, and of care, and of-money lines, shrewd. grasping lines-but so few happy lines The rarest feeling that ever lights the human face is the contentment of loving soul. Sit for an hour on the steps of the exchange in Wall street, and you will behold a drama which is better than thousand the