The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-09-03
GEMS OF

GUILT is a spiritual Rubicon. Jane
Porter.
PLANTATION is attention without at
attention.
LANGUAGE is the dress Of thought
Johnson.
CLAD in the beauty Of athousand stars.
-MariOwG.
A SIGH can shatter q castle in the air.
- w. R. Algcr.
WITH just enough Of learning to
misquote. -Byron.
How use doth breed n habit in n a
-Sh0kSpearc.
HE'LL trembles at a heaven-directed
eye.-BiShop Ken.
VICTORY belongs to the most perse-
vering. -Napoicon,
FELICITY, not lluency, Of language is
a merit Uhipple.
Few love to hear the sins they love
to act,-ShahSPc0rc.
MANS love is of man apart-it is
woman's whole existence. -Hyron.
ART must anchor in nature, or it is the
sport of every breath Of folly HaaIIlt'
DELICACY is to the mind what fra
grancy is to the fruit.-Achillcs Poin-
cClct.
DEw.DRops arr the gems Of the morn
ing, but tears Of m0urnfal eve !-CoI'
criIgc.
PEACE is the happy natural state Of
man war his corruption, his disgrace.
-ThOnlpSOH.
PURCHASE no friends by gifts when
thou ]ccasest to give such will cease to
love. Ftliicr.
WHAT is becoming is honest, and
whatever is honest must always be be-
coming. -Ciccro.
CusroM is the tyranny Of the lower
human faculties over TIE higher
Nad0nic Ncckcr.
IF II man makes me keep my distance,
the comfort is he keeps his own ut the
same time. -S~iN,
THE constaacy Of the wise is only the
art Of keeping disquietudo to ones
self RochCjOuca"M.
VAST, colossal destiny, which raises
man to fame, though it may also grind
him to powder. -AchdIcJ.
RELIGION converts despair, which
destroys, into resignation, which sub
mits.-Lady R~Iessng'on.
WuErsroNEs nre not themselves able
to cut, but make iron sharp and capa.
bic Of cutting. -I socratc8.
How poor, how rich, how subject,
how august, how complicated, how
wonderful is man i IOung.
FRANK sincerity, though no invited
guest, is free to all, and brings hls
welcome with him.-H00ar0.
WHAT bankers were hardest off dur.
ing the late panic? Those who couldn't
even pay one a little attention.
SCANDALS breed hatred hatred be
gets division; division makes faction
and faction brings ruin. -Qnarica.
THE training of children il a pro
]fcssiOn, where We must know how IL
lose time in order to gain it o"SSc0"
THE talc-bcarer and the tnlc-hcarc,
should both be hanged mp, back TO back
one by the tongue, the other by the ear
South.
MmNrGw - strange mystic hour.
when the yoil between tho irail prcsen
and the eternal future grows thin. o.
Mrs. Siomc.
The riotous tumult Of n laugh, tax
it, is the mob law Of tho features, an,
propriety the magistrate who reads tn
riot act HOiacs.
Ir YOU would be pungcnt be brie
for it is with words as with su beams
tho more they nrc condensed the deepc
they urn.-Sarc.
SCIENCE confounds everything
gives to the flowers an animal appetite
and takes away from even the plant
their chastity, -JouJGrt.
THE fool is willing to pay for anythin
but wisdom. No mal buys that
which he suppOses himself to have a
abundance already. - iWHts.
Love and friendship exclude eac
other. Love begins by love, and til
strongest friendship could only civ
birth to a feeble love. -DuCOCw
MIsTRUsT the mar who finds ever,
thing good, the man who finds ever,
thing evil, and still more, the man wi
is indifferent to everything. Larntc
DO NOT allow your daughters to !
taught letters by II man, though he
ASt. Paul, Oh St. Francis, of AsslssiuI
The saints are in heaven BiShc
Hgnori.
ONE tires of II page Of which eve
sentence sparkles with points-oi II sc
timcntalist who is always pumping t
tears from the eyes Of your own.
WackcrdY.
Ir is the first rule in o~ratory that
man must appear such as he would p
suade others to be and that can on
be accomplished by the forco of
life.-SWif.
THE moro weakness the moro faI
hood strength goes straight ey,
canuon-b ball that has in it hollows Il
holes goes crooked. Weaklings M
lie, -Rtohiing.
EVERY mar should study concisen
in speaking ii Is a sign of ignorH
not to know that long speeches, thor
they may please the speaker, arc
torture of the nearer. -fGithdm.
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