The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-11
GRAVE AND GAY.
A revolver-The earth.
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Nothing is more terrible than active
ignorance
Many good purposes lie in the
church-yard.
-Sweetenfng ones coffee is generally
the Arst stirring event of the day.
The original Of all men is the same;
and virtue is the only nobility.-[Sen-
eca.
- Be a philosopher, but amid. { all
your philosophy be still mRn.-HuD'e.
The way Of the world is 10 praise
dead saints and persecute living ones
W. Ho1De.
To lawyers: Can You make blind
man liable for his bill, i It Is pny hit
at sight?
All that philos phy eau teach ~ O."
be stubborn or sullen uudrr misloriuu'
Goldsmith.
One of our bachelor friends suppo-
ses lady's bridal day is that on which
she takes the rein.
"A lie, though it be killed and dead,
can sting sometimes-like q dead wasp
Mrs. Jameson.
What was the proverb that King
/ Lear uNhAh AAbAAA us NasA' o. y
| father, and fare worse.
Preaching, in the first sense of the
word. ceased as soon as ever the Gospel
was written.
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by stand
ing in our own light.
Little fish have n good notion as 10
commencing of life; they always begin
on a small scale.
Joe, I've q great mind 10 blow my
brains out. Why don't you ? said Joe
nobody would ever know it.
The difference between persever-
anee and obstinacy One Is a strong
will and the other a strong won't.
Unless we place our religion and
our treasure upon the same thing, re-
ligion will always be sacrihced.-Epto-
tetUS.
Hearts may be attracted by assumed
Qualities. but the affections are not
Gxed but by those which are real.--Do
Mog.
I have a fresh cold, said a gentle
man TO his acquaintance. Why do you
have a fresh oneP Why don't you have
it cured
Secrecy is for the happy; misery,
hopeless misery, needs no veil under
Thousand suns it dares TO act openly
Schiller.
God as given us speech in order
that we NAV say pleasant things 10 our
friends. and tell bitter truths 70 our en-
emies.-Hiene.
Sound and sufficient reason falls,
after all. to the share Of but few men,
and those few men exert their 1,J'u'nce
in silence. Goethe.
He that does not 60 as far rs his
heart urges and his mind directs IS
coward he who goes further than ne
intended is a slave.-Hetne.
A charming young lady, who at
tends evening church service regularly,
is called "the vesper belle 10y the DIS
tracted youths of the parish.
When Phoebe Cary was asked what
wine was drunk at the Twenty-third
street gathering, she replied, we drank
Heidsick but wG kept Mumm.
An old widow, when her pastor said
IN her God has not deserted you IN
vour old age. replied, No sir l have a
very good appetite still ]
GREATNESS stands upon precipice-
and if prosperity carries man never 40
little beyond his poise, IL overl'ears and
dashes him to peices.-Scnccd'
The Mormons have hymn, We
are not ashamed 20 own our Lord.
Very good but the question is whether
the Lord isn't ashamed 10 own them.
Not TO be provoked is best but If
moved, never correct till the iume is
spent for every stroke our fury strikes
is sure to hit ourselves at last WDi.
Penn.
IT ia one of the worst effect OF pros
peritv TO make man Vortex instead
of n fountain 40 that, instead OF throw
ING out. he learns only TO draw in
Beecher.
10 know a man, observe how be
wins his object, rather than how he
looses IL for when we fail, our pride
supports us when we succeed, 1t be-
trays us.-COLtOn.