The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-10-23
NUMBER 80.
BITS OF WISDOM.

! Neh' L. W. H'yY'nSm.
! A BOOK is letter to the unknown
J friends one has in the world.
lHE ultimate tendency of civilization
/ is toward barbarism. .--Harc.
+ \ SUPPRESSED resolve will betray itself
i'll the oycs. George Eliot.
ALMOST the best rnle of life is to be
worthy of ones Sells Z. Heron.
( DEFECT in manners is usually the
deficiency Of fine perceptions. .-Enlcy-
SoH.
Partial culture runs to the ornate
extreme culture to simplicity. .-Boree.
SOLITUDE shows US whatwe should be;
society shows us what we are. .-CecH,
GorTHr says: Christ is himself the
one unanswerable proof Of christianity.
, THAT is true plenty, not to have, but
not to want, riches.-S. UrBsostom.
CONTENT is to the mind like moss to
tree it bindoth it up 80 as to stop
! it's growth. -H0lfar.
Crrus force growth, and make men
taIliativc and entertaining, but they
make them artificial. Emerson.
A MAN can do without his own appro.
baton in much society, but he must
make great exortions to gain it when he
lives alone. -Sydney Smith,
THoUdHTs come into our minds by
avenues which We never left open, and
thoughts 60 out of our minds through
avenues which We never voluntarily
opened. - Emerson
rvHN over a new leaf All, those
new leaves Ii halt Of them were turned
over that are talked about, what 81.
gantic volume would they form i'll the
life of every one Of rs.
'rHM taste tor emotion may become
dangerous taste; We should be- very
cautions how we attempt to squeeze
out of human life more ecstasy and par
oxysm than it can we'll afford Sydney
N,ajth.
How earthly old people become,
moiy as the grave. Their wisdom
Smacks OF the earth; there is no fore
taste of immortality in it, They re
mind one OF earth.worms aud molc.
crickcts. - TbOredu.
lr il only III exalted moments that
We remain faithful witnesses to tho di.
vine moods of nature. Only in certain
conditions do we interpret her voices
urilsht, or read aud retain her lessons
III We ought.
ATTRACTION nets on all and at all dis
tauces. To feel lopulsion we must be
very near. 1t is a petty and personal
feeling or at best, is the protest OF
natural ailinities against unsought proI.
jmty.-Iurs. LOweN
IL we once truly love. We love forever
There is no time in real affections rs
far us this life il corcerned-it has no
existence or, it is IN eternity, nothing
save the proved worthlessness OF the
object of our regard can rond the bonds
Of affection.
AFTER these two noble fruits OF friend
ship, peace in the affections, and sup
port of the Judgment, followeth the last
fruit, which is, like the pomegranate,
full of many kernels. mean aid and
bearing part in all actions and ocoe-
sions. .-LOrd Bacon.
Ir wo Judge from history, OF what IL
the book OF glory composed? Are not
its leaves dead mems skin---its letters
stamped in human blood-its golden
clasps the pillage OF nations? 1t Is illu-
minated with tears and broken hearts
Dow0laS JerrOH.
TnouaH you be sprung in direct line
from Hercules, ii you show a low-born
meanness, that long succession OF An
cestors whom YOU disgrace are so many
witnesses against you and this grand
display of their tarnished glory but
serves to make your ignominy more
evident. .-BOileau.
IN sculpture and architecture forms
are rendered visible by exterior light.
In painting, on the contary, matter, OBJ
| scure in itself, has within itself its IN
ternal element, its ideal-light 1t
draws from itself both clearness and
obscnrity. Now, unity, the combina'
ton of light and dark. is color.-Heget.
Two persons who have chosen each
other out OF all the species, with the
design to become each others mutual
comfort and entertainment, have, in
that sction, bound themselves to be
good -humored, aitable, discreet, forgiy-
ing, patient and joyful, with respect to
each others frailties and perfections, to
the end Of their lives.-Addison.
IT il not merely the multiplicity OF
tints, the gladness OF tone, or the balm
mess OF the air which delight in the
spring; it is tho still consecrated spirit
of hope, the prospect OF happy days yet
to come the endless variety of nature,
With presentiments OF eternal flowers
which never shall fade, sympathy with
blessedness OF the ever.doyeloping
worll.-Nordtis.
How were friendship possible 2 In
mutual devotedness to the good and true !;
otherwise impossible. except as armed
neutrality or hollow commercial league.
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