The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-30
GOLDEN WORDS.

for mean fellow.
A LIFE without Joy is worse than
enc of great grief.
OFTEN forgive others, but never
myself PttbLius Syrus.
WHosoEvER is unchaste cannot rev.
erence himself. Bacon.
FEAR God, and next to God, [
chiefly fear him who fears Him not.
Sandi.
We CAN do more good by being
good than in any other way.
THERE is foolish chamber even
in the brain of the sage.
WE DO not count a mans years
until he has nothing else to count.
To KNOW how to wait is the secret
of success.
ALWAYS speak the truth, if you
speak at all.
LIVE up to your engagements, if
you make them.
NONE think of the great unhappy,
but the great.
HABIT, if not resisted, soon be-
comes a necessity.
You CAN trust no man who unne
eessarily speaks against another.
The French have very significant
saying: It is always the unexpected
which happens.
INNOCENCE is like a polished ar
NOR, it adorns as well as defends.
BETTER TO make penitents be gen
tleness than hypocrites be severity.
DIR. Johnson used to say, He who
waits to do a great deal of good at
once, will never do any.
GREAT hearts are Gods best argu-
ment. For as their greatest, God is
greater than our hearts.
The great secret of human success
is to attend to your own business.
The man who can do nothing but
serious, or nothing but merry, is bat
half u man.-Leigh Hunt.
KIND words are as refreshing to
the burdened heart as rain to the
parched ground.
The passionate are like men stand
ing on their heads they see all
things the wrong way.-PL1to-
Tranquil pleasures last The longest.
We are not fitted to bear long the
burdens of great joys.
To TELL falsehood is like the cut
of a saber; for, though the wound
may heal, the scar will remain.
TAKE away from mankind their
vanity and their ambition, and there
would be but few claiming to be he
roes or patriots.
The putting in order is a delight
full occupation, and is at least analo-
gous to a virtue. Virtue is the love
of moral order.
IT IS one of the beautiful compeH-
sations of this life that no one can
sincerely try to help another with
out helping himself.
The husks of emptiness rustic in
every wind the full corn in the ear
holds up its golden fruit noiselessiy
to the lord of the harvest. Whittier
THERE are emotions that one could
never put into words without the
danger of being ridiculous. Analysis
is the death of sentiment.
IT will be generally found that
those who whet their appetites by rig
orously abstaining from one enjoy
ment, are the most voracious in the
qualification of others.
In SCIENCE, read, by preference
the newest books; in literature the
Oldest. The classic literature is al
ways modern. New books revive
and decorate old ideas old books
suggest and invigorate new IDEAS
BltLlUer.
THE ART of conversation consists
in the exercise of two fine qualities
You must originate, and you must
sympathize; you must possess, al
the same time, the habits of commu.
nicating and listening. The union
is rare but irresistible.-Froude.
TINS whole life is but one great
school. From the cradle to the
grave we are scholars. The voices
of those we love, and the wisdom o.
past ages, and our experience, are
our teachers. Affections give us
: discipline. The spirits of departed
saints whisper to US come NJ
higher
THE only way to meet af1liction /!
, to pass through it solemnly, slowly
, with humanity and faith, as the Is
raelites passed through the sea
| Then its waves of misery will divide
and become to us wall on the righI
, side and on the left, until the gul
, narrOws and naTrows before oul
eyes, and we land safe on the oppo-
| site shore Hiss IHuI0ch.
PEOPLE always fancy that we can,
not become wise, without becoming
old also; in truth, as years accumu
late, it is hard to keep ourselves as
wise as we were. Man becomes, IL
the different stages of his life, indeed
a different being; but he cannot say
that he will surely be better as hC
grows onward, and, In certain m lat
ters, he is as likely to be right In his
twentieth, as in his sixtieth year
Goethe.
He only is advancing in life who's,
heart is getting softer, whose blood
! warmer, whose brain quicker, whos'
spirit is entering into living peace.
THE man who never stumble.
} knows nothing of the world of sor
| | row beneath him, the wealth or sym
, pathy around and the heaven of for
| giving love over his head.
OK earth we have nothing to dc