The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-05
gOBDEN WORDS.

Deal fairly and openly with all
men.
Spurn everything that is unmanly.
The pleasure of love is IN loving.
Adversely well undergone is the
greatest virtue.
Spring unlocks the flowers topaint
the laughing soul.-Herder.
Civility costs nothing aud buys
everything.-Lady Montague.
It is right to be contented with
what we have; never with what we
are.-1Eackintosh.
The best education in the world is
that got by struggling to make l'v-
ing.
A beautiful external life symbol
zes q beautiful internal life.
To know, to esteem, to love-and then to part,
Make up LIES tale to many feeling heart,
Words are wise mems counters
they do but reckon by them; but
they are the money of fools.
True liberty consists in the priv
lege Of enjoying our own rights
not in the destruction of the rights
of others.
The long sleep of death closes our
scars, and the short sleep of life our
wounds. Sleep is the half of life
that heals us.-Richter.
Many shining actions owe their
success to chance, though the gener.
al or statesman turns away with the
applause.-Henry Home.
Two things indicate an obscure
understanding-to be silent when
we ought to converse; and to speak
when we should be silent.
Philosophy is the art OF finding the
place of truth in every encounter
event and circumstance to attune al
relations to truth.
Be thou what thou singly art, ant
personate only thyself. Swim
smoothly in the stream of thy ma
ture, and live but one man.
Confucius asks: If doing what i
to be done, be made the first bust
ness, and success a secondary consid
eration-is not this the way to exal
virtue?
1t will afford sweeter happiness il
the hour of death to have wiped on,
tear from the cheek of sorrow thar
to have luled an empire, to hav,
conquered millions or to have en-
shaved q world.
Pleasurs and pain, though direct
ly opposite, are yet so contrived b,
nature as to be constant companions
and it IS fact that the same mo
tions and muscles of the face are EN-
ployed both in laughing and crying
-ChGrrOn.
We are all sculptors and painters
and our material is our own fes.
and blood and bones. Any noble
ness begins at once to refine man
features, any meanness or sensualit
to imbrute them.
If you wait for others to lift you
burdens of life, the probability
you will be overwhelmed and crushe
beneath them. The best way is t
lift them yourself, one by one, a
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them all behind you.
If civil word or two will rende
man happy, he must be wretche
indeed who viii not give them {
him. Such a disposition is hk
lighting another mans candle b
ones own, which loses none of it
brilliancy by what the other gains.
Mazzini leaves behind him tni
fine code Of morals: Seek not to iso
late yourselves; imprison not you
soul in sterile contemplation, in sol
itary prayer, in pretending to
grace which no faith not realized i
works can enable you to deserve
You can only save yourself by savin
others. God asks not-What hav
you done for your soul? but, Wha
have you done for the brother souls
gave you? Think of these. Leay
your own to God and his law. Las
Dor unweariedly for Others goot
Such is the hottest prayer.