The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-04-19
SENSE AND SENTIMENT,

Anu cOmetn from afar:
But straiiing clouds OF glory do we come
From God, who is orr home.-[a ordsworth.
Patience surpasses learning.
Syhablesi govern the world. -tJohn
Selden. :
Love is the spark that burns up the
mountains of iniquity.
The whole earth is the monument of
illustrious men, ericles.
l Z A beautiful external life symbolizes
beautiful internal life. syr
To seewhat is right and not to do
is want of courage. -[Confucius..
Gain one clear distinct truth, and it
becomes a center of light.
Man must will the good and the great;
the rest comes as decreed. Il Humboldt.
Men blush less for their crimes than
for their weakness and vanity
Bruyere.
Characters never change. Opinions
alter; characters are only developed
[Disraeli. Ls
Learning without thought is labor
lost; Thought without learning is per-
ilous.-fOonfucius.T ~~rF '-.'s
Love seldom hannts the heart where learn.
ing lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Pope.
Genius unexalted is no more genius
than bushel of acorns is q forest OF
oaks Beecher. ..-..
An ambassador is an honest man
sent to lie abroad for the common.
wealth.-tSir Henry Walton.
At night thou must go in prayer as q
beggar, if by day thou wilt carry thysel1
as king.-[Saadi.
We cannot look, however imperfectly,
upon a great man without gaining some
thing by him.-Carlyie.
There is very little difference to me
between the society of fools and men
of sense Montesquieu.
The pleasure of love is in loving
We are happier in the passion we fee
than in thatwe excite Rochefoucauld
Extravaganza leads to insubordina.
ton, and parsimony to meaness. 1t is
better to be mean than to be insubor.
dinate. Il Confucius.
DR.. johnson once said, it matters moi
how man dies, but how he lives. The
art of dying is not of Importance, it lasts
so short time. iht
To q man who looks long at the sun,
the sun imprints itself ON everything
he looks at. So it is with O man who
looks long at God.-[Tauler.
To be able to learn that what is true is
true, and that what is false is false, this
is the mark and character of intelli.
gence.-fSwedenborg.
To know, to esteem, to love and then tc
part,
Makes up LIES tale to many feeling heart
tEg r. r e lColeridge.
The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice
An arrow Tor the heart like "a sweet voice.
| r-rrrE byron.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the
reason?
-r- lSir John Harrington.
Religion is the basis upon which civil
government rests-that from which pow
er derives its authority, laws their eff
cacy, and both their sanction. -..
The putting in order is a delightful,
occupation, and is at least analogous tc
a virtue. Virtue is the love of mora
order Henry Crabbe Robinson. =
Great efforts from great motives are
the best definition of a happy life. The
easiest labor is burden to him who has
no motive for performing it.
Ii doing what is to be done be made
the first business, and success second
airy consideration-is not this the way
to exalt virtue?- Confucius.
The minds of some of our statesmen
like the pupil of the human eye, con
tract themselves the more stronger light
there is shed upon them. : Moore.
Luther's attack on the Romish cor.
ruptions saved Rome and gave the pa.
pacy a new lease, as uncapping the cen.
trail fire keeps the earth from uplifting.
Robert Hall said of Kippis: He might
be very clever man by nature, fol
aught l know, but he laid so many
books upon his head that his brains
could not move.
I am glad there is something that
hate, for otherwise one is in danger Of
falling into the habit of literally finding
all things good in their place; and that
is destructive of all true feeling. -
Goethe.
a man should say, am not concern
| ed that have no place. am concern
ed how may fit myself for one. I an
not concerned that / am not known
seek to be worthy to be known Con
ucius.
We are all sculptors and painters, ant
orr material is our own flesh and BLOOD
and bones. Any nobleness begins a
once to refine mans features, an,
meanness or sensuality to imbrute them
|-[Thoreau.
Private sincerity is public welfare.
common faith is fortress we agree t.
defend, and have to desert. How
many creeds once alive and swarmine
with champions resemble the mould,
castles on the Danube and Rhine!-
Bartol.
Dean Stanley lately said, in sermon
to the printers of London, that one,
architecture was the press, and told
great thoughts to the world in stone
but now the press was architecture, ant
is building up the world of ideas ant
usages.
To all men is their day of death ap
pointed, and they cannot postpone OF
advance it one hour. Wilt thou govern
the world which God governs? Thy
lot was cast beforehand, aud whitherso
ever it leads, thou must follow.-[The
Koran.
Nothing is so egotistical as the en-
ioyment of romance and poetry. 1t is
nothing more than looking into a mir.
ror. The novel reader crawls into the
skins of all the heroes he admires, he
fills them out, strides in them, and,
when he glorifies the original, is Sc.
cretly clarifying himself.-[Olivel
Bunce.
The Flower Garden.
If the flowers have been growing in
the ground many years, new soil does
L.