The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-07
GRAVE AND GAY.

chin.
A SEALED propsal-the engagement
kiss.
No ONE can be said to be happy till
he is dead.
THE world is all title-page without
contents.-[ Young.
A FOE to God was never a true
friend to man. Young.
THOSE who would make us feel
must feel themselves.-[C Churchill.
A FIG for your bill of fare-show me
your bill of company Swift.
WHY is the figure 8 like a peacock
Because it is nothing without its tail.
DEATH is no longer mystery moth
ing dies all exists, and is only trans
formed.
WHAT is it that a man may have
never possessed, and yet leave behind
him A Will.
THERE is but step between a
proud mans glory and his disgrace.
THE popular notion of genius is-of
one who can do almost everything -ex-
cept make living.
WE prefer to confess our moral
errors, faults and crimes, rather than
our intellectual ones.-[ Goethe.
IT Is one of the curiosities of natural
history that horse eats best when he
has not bit in his mouth.
The latest definition of a gentle
man is a man who can put on clean
collar without Icing conspicuous.
BE NOT ashamed of the virtues;
honor is a good brooch to wear in a mans
hat at all times Ben johnson.
As sURFEIT is the father of much
fast, so very scope, by the immoderate
use, turns to restraint. IL Shakespeare.
TRUE love cannot exist without
purity of heart. Barrenness of heart is
the greatest of evils [Guldenstubbe.
WHY is a ballet-dancer a most in
human creature? Because her greatest
delight is to execute her grand pas.
The only praiseworthy indifference
is an acquired one we must feel, as
well as control, our passions. 81 Richter.
POETRY has no echo more sonorous,
and more prolonged, than the heart of
youth in which love is first born
TLamartine.
WHAT is the difference between a
plan of a battlefield and a roasted
pippin? One is a war-map, the other a
warm apple.
IF YOUR neighbours hens are trouble
some and steal across the way, don't let
your angry passions rise, but fix place
for them to lay.
THE dwelling house is a modern
institution. It is a curious fact that it
has only improved with the social eIeva-
ton of women.-[C. ID. Warner.
No HEREsY was ever yet killed by
suppression the deeper it is thrust into
the ground, the stronger will be its
root, and the surer its bloom.
WHICH is the Oldest, Miss Antiquity,
old Aunty Deluvian, Miss Ann Terror,
Miss Ann Cestor, Miss Ann T. Mundane.
or Miss Ann T. Cedent?
THE most accomplished way of
using books at present is to serve them
as some do lords, learn their titles and
then boast of their acquaintance
[SeOift.
The power of imagination is regu-
lated through art, especially through
poetry. Nothing is more frightful than
imagination without taste. Il Goether.
NEVER was a sincere word utterly
lost. Never magnanimity fell to the
ground, but there is some heart to greet
and accept it unexpectedly Emerson.
EVERY sweet thought is a line of
beauty to the fuctuant form every
noble impulse shapes the dilated figure
to prouder expression of it's strength,
beauty and grace.
SIX feet in his boots exclaimed
Mrs. Beeswax What will the impu-
dence of this world come to-. wonder?
Why, they might as well tell me that
the man had six heads in his hat.
The word love in one of the North
American Indian dialects is ''chemlen-
acknowledgements. Persons afflicted
with stammering find it difficult to give
expression to the sacred feeling.
A LoQUAuoUs blockhead, after
babbling some time to Lord Erskine,
observed he was afraid he was intruding
on his lordship's ear. Oh, not at all,
said Erskine I have not been listening.
THAT is the great advantage of
dialogue on horseback it can be merg-
ed any minute into trot or canter.
and one might have escaped from So
crates himself in the saddle TAdaDs
Bede.
THE beginning of hardship is like the
first taste of bitter food-it seems for a
moment unbearable; yet if there is no.
thing else to satisfy our hunger we
take another bite, and find it possible to
go on George Eliot
Do you think am fool a violent
man asked the late Rev. DR.. Bethune.
Really, replied the doctor, I would not
have ventured the assertion, bnt now
that you ask my opinion, must say
that I am not prepared to deny it.
WHEN Sydney Smith had gravely
listened to the details of man dogs
course through the streets of London
how he frightened a bishop. and was at
length dispatched with difficulty-the