The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08

Aud had no garment but her IoveIiness.
Alice Cam.
To HAVE fish at supper-Just drop
them a line.
A wELL-DREssED dog wears a collar,
and pants in the summer.
WHEN does a man have to keep his
word? When no one viii take it.
WITHOUT calmness it is utterly i'm
possible to show forth consistent action.
Mrs. PARTNGTON, descanting on art,
called Michael Angelo one of the old
mastifs.
What is the difference between fixed
stars and shooting stars The one are
suns, the other darters.
LET the philosophers say what they
will, happiness is the elixer of life, that
makes us young in heart if not in per
son.
WHEN a noble life has prepared old
age at is not the decline that it recalls,
but the first days of Immortality
Madame de StaeL
The man who seeks one thing in life,
and but one,
Nay hope to achieve it before life be done;
But he who seeks all things wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him be
A harvest of barren regrets Olgcu Mereditb;
A KIND expression of countenance can
make the most homely pleasing; an
honest heart and friendly acts make
the dulIest Iovable.
LET us make our account with the
actual rather than seek excuses for self
indulgence, in Pensive preference of
something that might have been.-Hor-
leg.
How the poor child is worried on
whom but little spark of vanity is dis
covered, and yet what poor miserable
creature is the man who has no vanity.
Goethe.
THoUGHTs come into our minds by
avenues which we never left open, and
thoughts go out of our mind through
avenues which we never voluntarily
opened Emerson.
HOWEVER deeply the violet may be
hidden, its perfume betrays it, and leads
to its discovery. 1t is the same with
woman, those only are neglected who
are not worth the trouble of seeking.
4 CERTAIN periwig maker had for a
sign picture of AbsaIom hanging from
the branches of a tree by the hair of his
head, and underneath the following
coupIet:
If AbsaIon hadn't worn his own hair,
He'd never been found hanging there
The great make us feel, first of all,
the Indifference of circumstances. They
call into activity the higher perceptions
and subdue the low habits of comfort
and luxury but the higher perceptions
find their objects everywhere; only the
low habits need places and banquets.-
Emerson.
4 GREAT many people seem to miss
their vocation because their bodies do
not happen to fit their souls. This is
one of the advantages of middle age
people have got used to their bodies
and to their faults; they know how to
use them, to spare them, and they do
not expect too much.--lIiss TH0ckerH.
AM not going to undervalue the
charm of wisdom. nor the majestic Joy
which comes from loving principles OF
right but if l could only have one Of
them, give me the Joy of the affections;
nv delight in others, theirs IN me, the
Joy of delighting rather than the delight
of ENJOYING. -THeOdOTe Parker.
VoLTAIRE rated literature as 1t ought Z
to be rated, as below action not be
cause written speech is less of a force
but because the speculation and criticism
of literature makes less demand than
the conduct of great affairs. on quail
ties that are rare In combination, on
temper, foresight, strength of intelli-
gence and strength of character.-NoT-
ley.
IT SEEMS to me that Just because we
are intended, as long as we live, to be
in a state of intense moral effort, we are
not intended to be IN intense physical
or intellectual effort. Our full ener-
gies are to be given to the souls work,
to the great fight with the dragon, the
taking the kingdom of heaven by force
But the body's work and the heads
work are to be done quietly, and com
without efTort.-Ruskin.
Remarkable Case of Vitality.