The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-17

NOBLE discomfort is the path to hea-
ven.- T. ". Higgi'aSo1a. s7.E
4 BOOK is a letter to the unknown
friends one has in the world.
/ The ultimate tendency of civilization
is toward barbarism.-H Hare.
A SUPPRESSED resolve viii betray itself
| IN the George Eliot.
THE secret of fashion is TO surprise.
never to disappoint.
! ALMOST the best rule of life is to be
worthy of ones self.-& P. Heron.
PARTIAL culture runs to the ornate
extreme culture to simplicity.-BOUee.
SOLITUDE shows us what we should be
society shows us what we are.-CsciL
GOETHE says Christ is himself the
one unanswerable proof of christianity.
THAT is true plenty, not to have, but
not to want, riches.-St. ChyD8oStona.
| DEFECT in manners Is usually the
deficiency of fine perceptions.-Bnaer-
son. .--s . ------ Cd.
Do not speak OF your happiness to a
man less fortunate than yourself
! PLlItGrch
CONTENT is to the mind like moss to
a tree +; it bindeth it up so as to stop
its growth.-HGIta-e. s-. . -..- ---
CITIES force growth, and make men
talkative and entertaining, but they
make them artificial Emerson.
THOUGHTS come into our minds by
avenues which we never left open, and
thoughts go out of our minds through
avenues which we never voluntarily
opened. .- Emerson. .
Turn over a new leaf Ah, those
new leaves If half of them were turned
over that are talked about, what gi-
gantic volume would they form in the
life of every one of US.
TIE taste for emotion may become a
dangerous taste; we should be very
cautious how we attempt to squeeze
out OF human life more ecstasy and par
Oxysm than it can we'll afford. Sydney
Smith. -........- .........-
How earthly old people become
moldy 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 and mole
erickets. ThoreaU.
IT is only in exalted moments that
We remain faithful witnesses to the di-
vine moods of nature. Only in certain
conditions do we interpret her voices
Alright, or read and retain her lessons
as we ought.
ATTRACTION acts on all and at all dis
tances. To feel lepulsion we must be
very near. 1t is a petty and personal
feeling; or at best, is the protest OF
natural affinities against unsought prox-
imity.-1f's. LOt0eH
IFwe once truly love, we love forever.
There is no time in real affections as
far as this life is corcerned-it has no
existenee-or, it is an eternity, nothing
save the proved worthlessness of the
object of our regard can rend the bonds
of affection.
II we Judge from history, OF what Is
the book of glory composed? Are not
its leaves dead mems skin--its letters
stamped in human blood-its golden
clasps the piIlage of nations? 1t is illu-
minated with tears and broken hearts.
Douglas Jerrold
THoUGH you be sprung IN direct line
from Hercules, if you show a lOw-bOrn
meanness, that long succession Of an
cesbors 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.
IL 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
terual element, its ideal-Iight it
draws from itself both elearness and
obscurity. Now, unity, the combina-
ton of light and dark, is color.-HegeL
Two persons who have chosen each
other out OF all the species, with the
design TO become each others mutal
comfort and entertainment, have, in
that action, bound themselves to be
good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiv-
ing, patient and joyful, with respect to
each others fraiIties and perfections, to
the end Of their lives.-Addison
The instincts Of the ant are very Un-
important, considered as the ants q; but
the moment ray of relation is seen to
extend from it TO man, and the little
drudge is seen to be a monitor, a lit
tie body with mighty heart, then all
its habits, even that said to be recently
observed, that it never sleeps, becomes
sublime -ET1erson.-,
II is not merely the multiplicity Of
tints, the gladness of tone, or the balm
mess of the air which delight in the
spring it is the 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-developing
world.-NoUaLis.
How we're friendship possible? I? In
nr1tal devotedness to the good and true;
otherwise impossible, except rs armed
neutrality or hollow commercial league.
A man, be the heavens praised, Is sutfi-
cient for himself yet we're ten men,
united IN love, capable of being and a
doing what ten thousand singly would
fail in. Infinite is the help man can
yield to man carlyle
HosfE Is not a name, nor form, nor
routine. tt Is a spirit, q presence, a
principle. Material and method will
not. and cannot, make it. IL must get
;ta Iiobt and sveetness from those who