The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-30
GRAVE AND GAY.
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Natures tailoring-a potato patch.
-Flowery speech" Good as wheat -
"A great fortune is great slavery.
The sun-dial only counts the bright
hours.
May not hermit call his cave a
man shun?
"A quilting party is now styled a
"piece" jubilee.
Who eats his cock alone, must sad
die his horse alone.
"A translated poem is boiled straw
berry,. e. Hale.
The man who carries everything
before him-The waiter.
Sense must be very good indeed to
be as good as nonsense.
Heaven is never deaf but when
mans heart is dumb.-QHarleS.
The surest way not to fail is to de-
termine to succeed.-Sheriddn.
-Faithfulness and sincerity are the
highest things. -COntuciacs
Why is love like a canal-boat? Be
cause it is an internal transport.
The great art of life is to play for
much and stake httle.-Jojtn8on.
In all thy quarrels leave open the
door of reconciliatiOn.-FrOn the Per-
sian.
Surely people must know them
selves, so few ever think about anything
else.
The pathetic almost always consists
in the detail of little circumstances
Gi66On.
The craving for sympathy is the
common boundary line between Joy and
sorrow.
Well, wife, you can't say I ever
contracted bad habits. No, sir. You
generally expand them.
-" Lucca-here, now," is the way a
Pittsburgh paper announces the pres
ence of the cantatrice.
To bring forward the bad actions of
others to excuse our own, is like wash
ing ourselves in mud.
To form brave man, educate bold
ly? Brave painters alone, says Lavater,
can hit brave face.
"A lady calls the little memoranda
her butcher sends in with the meat
"pencilings by the weigh"
"A correspondent wants to know if
beef Ia mode is prepared from Modocs.
No; but from Deadlock.
The essence of knowledge is, hav-
ing it, to apply it; not having it, to con-
fess your ignorance onfuciaIS.
Love and friendship mix like two
rivers, the more famous of which takes
away the name of the other.-1fdLLe de
Seudery.
What is the difference between
good dog-show and bad one? When
it is a good one, the dogs go to the
show; but if a bad one, the show goes
to the dogs.
Education cannot create; it can only
help to develop to reality the previous
ly existent possibility; it can only help
to bring to light the hidden life.-Ro-
se1lkrGnz.
The essence of true nobility is ne
glect of self. Let the thought of self
pass In, and the beauty of a great action
is gone, like the bloom from soiled
hower.-FTOude.
Poetry has been to me its own ex-
ceeding great reward it has given me
the habit of wishing to discover the
good and beautiful in all that meets
and surrounds me.-COIeradge.
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much
easier, safer and pleasanter to be the
thing which a man aims to appear than
to keep up the appearance of being
what he is not.-CecjL.
Fine sensibilities are like wood
bines, delightful luxur1es of beauty to
Irvine round a solid, upright stem of
understanding; but very poor things if
allowed to creep along the ground.
To think of the infinite, say some,
limits it; therefore we must ignore the
infinite. When [ look on the sea, I
limit it on my side, but only on my
side. On its own side it is to my view
boundless; and mans spirit can so stand
on the shore of the absolute
I respect the man who knows dis
tinctly what he wishes. The greater
part of all the mischief of the world
comes from the fact that men do not
sufficiently understand their own aims.
They have undertaken to build tower,
and spent no more labor on the. founda-
ton than would be necessary to erect a
hut.-Goethe.
A sorrowing friend, writing on the
OCd11I Vi eh4 C5O1L1dDAC pStAo. AOAAS
has gone to her eternal rest. His dis
may can only be family imagined when,
upon "proof" of his obituary notice
being sent to him, he read: She has
gone to her eternal roast.
Poetry has three ages, each of which |
corresponds with an epoch of society, |
viz: the ode, the epic, and the drama.
The primitive times are lyrical, the an
cient are epic, and the modern dramat-
ic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic
celebrates history, and the drama repre-
sents life Victor Hugo.
-Overburden not thy memory to
make so faithful servant slave. Re
member Atlas was weary. Memory,
like purse, if it be over full that it
cannot shut, some will drop out of it.
Take heed of gluttonous curiosity to
feed on many things, lest the greedi-
ness of the appetite of thy memory
spoil the digestion thereof. Beza's case
was peculiar and memorable. Being !