The Hickman courier., 1874-09-11
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

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FnrENDsHp is the wine of life
Young.
A GREAT fortune is great slavery
Seneca.
THERE is proud modesty in merit
Dryden.
He is wise that is wise to himself
Euri1oides.
To live is not to learn, but to apply.
e. LegoatUe.
| EvERYrHrNais mere opinion. n.-Marca's
Ant0ni1atfs.
GOODNESS admits of no excess but
error.-Bdc0n.
MERCY to him that shows it is the
rule Cosoper.
MoRosENHss is the evening OF turbu-
Ience. e.-LdnIOr.
He wreathed the rod of criticism with
roses.-DiSrdeH.
Pobrr1cs is the science of exigencies.
Theodore Parker.
WIT does not take the place of knowl-
edge VdrUougstes.
-OF two heroes, he who esteems his
rivals the most, is the greatest.-BeG"-
meUe.
No fouui h is 50 small but Heaven
NAV be ina ned in its BOSOM -Ha10-
ttorne.
THE rays of happiness, like those Of
light, are colorless when unbroken-
LOnafelloa0.
MEN who make money rarely saunter
men who save money rarely swagger.-
BullUer LuttOn.
Coon breeding shows itself mos
where, to an ordinary eye, it appears th'
swfA6P6bt5s2ssis wf6P b5ssss .. 4..s ..-.,-s-
of that which does not properly belong
TO him.-Seneca.
MAKE the most of time, it flies ava.
so fast; yet method will teach you t
win time.-Goethe.
EVERYTHING, virtue glory, honor
things human snd divine eaa. g. -
to. xi>ls..<.---<-,s-ss ssss=s - @Tways walt or
&c, : nor Is euccees the constant CUES
of virtue. n Hazard.
grows byeshe follies of our Europea,
nations.-Napoleon.
DESPAIR gives the shocking ease to tn,
mind that a modification does TO the
body.-Lord GreeUille.
THERE is nobody SO weak of invention
that cannot make some little stories I,
vilify his enemy.-AddiSOT
TIME never bears such moments OF
his wings as when he flies too swiftly {,
be marked, d,-JoG1lna Battle.
REVENGE is an act of passion; ven
geance of Justice; injuries are revenged
crimes are ayenged.-JohnSO7a.
No action will be considered blame
less unless the viii was so /; for by tn
will the act was dietated.-SenecG.
Love is but another name for that in
scrutable presence by which the soul /
connected with humanity.-SiBln1S.
STILLEsr streams oft water faires
meadows, ard the bird that hutter
least is longest on the wing. Coagper.
INITIATE time; it destroys everythin,
slowly it undermines, it wears away
it detaches, it does not wrench.-Jo1'
bert.
lam more afraid of my own hear
than the pope and all the cardinals.
have within me the great pope, self
Luther.
2 TRUE goodness is like the glow-worn
in this, that it shines most when III
eyes except those of Heaven are upol
it.-Hare.
THERE is a transcendant power in ex
\ ample. We reform others unconscious
krwbsn we walk uprightly.-Madan1
iSsUetcfine.
Connection does much, but encour
agement does more. Encouragement
after censure is as the sun after a show
er.- Goethe
UNNATURAL deeds do breed unnatura
troubles; infected minds to their dea
: pillows will discharge their secrets. -
Shakespeare.
I WE ought to be guarded against ever,
.ppearance of envy, as passion tina
1ways implies inferiority wherever /
resides.-Pli1ly.
A TEACHER who is attempting to teael
without inspiring the pupil with a de
sire to learn, is hammering on cold iron
Horace &en.
TIM soof EiHelIeot is apt to b,
acter deciphered rsiessthe Shape O
length of nose.-BoUee.