The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-10
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
LAUGH if you are wise.-Aartial.

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LAUGH if you are wise.-Aartial.
TIE borrower runs in his own debt.
The strong hours conquer u.s.
Schiller.
GUIIr is a spiritual Rubicon.-Janc
Porter.
FILTRATION is attention without at
attention.
LANGUAGE is the dress of thought
johnson.
CLAD in the beauty of athousaDd stars.
-MdTlOtOe.
A SIGH can shatter castle in the air.
W R. AlOer.
WITH just enough of learning to
misquote. Byron.
How use doth breed habit in man.
Shakespeare.
HE'LL trembles at heaven-directed
eye.-Bishol1 Ken.
VIcToRY belongs to the most perse-
vering.-NapOleon.
FELICITY, not fiuency, Of language is
a merit WhiPpIe.
Few love to hear the sins they love
to act.-Shdkspeare.
MANS love is of man apart-it is
woman's whole existence.-ByrOn.
DELIoACY is to the mind what fra
grancy is to the fruit.-AchiLLes POin-
ceJet.
DEw-DRoPs are the gems of the morn
ing, but tears of mournful eve Col
eridge.
PEACE is the happy natural state of
man war his corruption, his disgrace.
Thompson.
PURCHASE no friends by gifts when
thou ceasest to give such will cease to
love.-FuILeT.
WHAT is becoming is honest, and
whatever is honest must always be be-
coming. Cicero.
Custom is the tyranny of the lower
human faculties over TIE higher
Madame Necker.
If man makes me keep my distance,
the comfort is he keeps his own at the
same time.-SaOi6.
TIE constancy of the wise is only the
art of keeping disquietude to ones
-ROchefoucauLd.
VAST, colossal destiny, which raises
man to fame, though it may also grind
him to powder.
RELIGION converts despair, which
mits.-Lady BIessington.
WHETsToNKs are not themselves able
to cut, but make iron sharp and capa-
BILE of cutting.
How poor, how rich, how subject,
how august, how complicated, how
wonderful is man i Young.
FRANK sincerity, though no invited
guest, is free to all, and brings his
welcome with him.
WHAT bankers were hardest off dur
ing the late panic Those who couldn't
even pay one little attention.
SCANDALS breed hatred hatred be-
gets division; division makes faction.
and faction brings ruin.-Quarles.
THE training of children is a pro-
fession, where we must know how to
lose time in order to gain Rousseau.
THE tale-bearer and the tale-hearer
should both be hanged up, back to back.
one by the tongue, the other by the ear.
South.
MIDNIGHT - strange mystic hour
when the veil between the frail present
and the eternal future grows thin
Mrs. StO1Oe.
THE riotous tumult of laugh, take
1t, is the mob law of the features. and
propriety the magistrate who reads the
riot Holmes.
IF YOU would be pungent be brief,
for it is with words as with SUI beams
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.-SdTe.
SCIENCE confounds everything; it
gives to the flowers an animal appetite,
and takes away from even the plants
their chastity.-JOu6ert.
THE fool is willing to pay for anything
but wisdom. No man buys that of
which he supposes himself to have an
abundance observation-disclosures.
Love and friendship exclude each
other. Love begins by love, and the
strongest friendship could only give
birth to feeble love.-DuCoeatT
MIsTRUsT the man who finds every
thing coed, the man who finds every
thing evil, and still more, the man who
is indifferent to everything. -Lavaser.
Do NOT allow your daughters to be
taught letters by man, though he be
st. Paul, or st. Francis, of Assissium
The saints are in heaven Bishop
LignOyi.
ONE tires of page of which every
sentence sparkles with points-of a SEN
timentalist who is always pumping the
tears from the eyes of your own
IhackerGy.
II Is the first rule in oratory that a
man must appear such as he would per.
suade others to be and that can only
be accomplished by the force of his
life.-StOif.
The more weakness the more false
hood strength goes straight every
cannon-ball that has in it hOllows and
holes goes crooked. Weaklings must
e.-RitohliRg.
EVERY man should study concisenest
IN speaking it is sign of ignorance
not to know that long speeches, though
they may please the speaker, are the
torture of the hearer.-F6lthdnl.