The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-02
BITS OF WISDOM.

every battle.
No WISE man ever wished to be youn-
ger.-10ift.
NoTH1Ne dies without in some way
leaving trace of its existence.
FRIENDSHIP is the wine of existance;
love, the dram drinking.
MOMENTS of triumph are not always
moments of happiness.-Ars E2ts.
GET atop of your troubles, and then
they're half cured.-L. II. ALcott.
We do not count mans years until
he has nothing else to count.-Emer-
SON.
Flowers are the sweetest things God
ever made and forgot to put soul
with.
MEMORY is the only paradise from
which nothing can ever drive US.
Richter.
WoMAN's hopes are woven of sun
beams; shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot.
IT is not miserable to be blind {: he
only is miserable who cannot acquiesce
in his blindness with fortitude. Milton.
GRATITUDE is the throwing out of our
hearts in the light of another's kind
! ness.
I've never any pity for conceited peo-
pie, because think they carry their
comfort about with them.-George
Eliot
Who can doubt that anything which
makes a man discontented with his
state, without giving him the certainty
of better, is a curse?-G. p. r.
James.
THERE is something very sublime,
though very fanciful, in Plato's descrip-
ton of the Supreme Being, that ''truth
is his body, and light his shadow"
Addfson.
A GOOD citizen must know how to be
able to command and to obey he ought
also to know in what manner freeman
ought to govern and to be governed.
Aristotle.
SELF-RENUNCIATIoN is not surrender
of will. The will is never so strong SIS
in giving up, for principle and the COM
mon veal, self-interest or sensual de-
light.-G Il. Bartol.
The golden moments in the stream of
life rush past us, and we see nothing
but sand; the angels come to visit us,
and we only know them when they are
gone.-G George Eliot.
LIKE breakfast-time better than any
other moment in the day. No dust has
settled on ones mind then, and it pre-
sents clear mirror to the rays of
things. GeOr0e Eliot
HE is no common benefactor who
hrewdly gathers from the worlds man
fold literature its words of finest wit
and maturest wisdom for our entertain
ment, instruction, and inspiration.
THERE is power in the direct glance
of sincere and loving human soul,
which will do more to dissipate preju
dice and kindle charity than the most
elaborate aTguments.-George Eliot.
THERE is no funeral so sad to follow
as the funeral of our own youth, which
we have been pampering with fond de-
sires, ambitious hopes, and ali the
bright berries that hang in poisonous
clusters over the path of life. LGndoT
ALL things are literally better, lowell
er, and more beloved for the imperfec-
tions that have been divinely appointed,
that the law of human life may be effort
and the law of human Judgment mercy.
Rlsskia.
Ir is precisely the proudest and most
obstinate men who are the most liable
to shift their position and contradict
themselves everything is easier to
l.. l,o ai Foo or thot
they have been thoroughly defested,
aud must begin life anew.-George
Eliot.
THE strong emotions from which the
life of human being receives new
bias win their victory as the sea wins
his though their advance may be sure,
they will often, after mightier wave
than usual, seen to roll back 80 Jar as
to lose all the ground they had made
George Eliot.
AFTER you are once awakened, be
sure to use the first consciousness IN
getting upon the floor. If you allow
yourself to parley a single moment,
sleep, like an armed man, will probably
seize upon you, and your resolution is
gone, your hopes dashed and your
habits destroyed. DIR. Todd.
MEN in general are neither very good
nor very bad they are simply medi-
ocre. have never closely examined
even the best without discovering faults
and frailties invisible at first. I have
always in the end found among the
worst, certain good elements andholding
points of honesty. There are two men
in every man it is childish to see only
one; il is sad and unjust to look only
at the other De Zocq1teUitte.
A discussion in the National Con-
vention of friends, the other day, would
seem to indicate that even the Quakers
are beginning to yield to the esprit OF
the age One speaker advised that
s'the question of dress should be one
simply of utility and convenience; and
said. moreover, that "the practice of
wearing the hat in meeting, which so
long prevailed, was remarkable chiefly
for being stupid violation of sanitary
IawP'
THERE can be no ideal companionship
where time is not permitted to set his =
seal and harden his wax. Age is need
fuI to this as to vine. George the
Third said he liked his old friends and
old shoes best. Time is the universal
finisher of all jobs we'll begun-adds