The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-01-01
BITS OF WISDOM.

every Dhttle'
No WISE man ever wished to be youh-
ger.-,0W.
TIE worst men often give the best aa-
vice.-Bailey.
TIE contented man is never poor, the
discontented never rich.
NoTHINa dies without in some way
leaving trace of its existence.
FRIENDSHIP is the wine OF existance;
love, the dram drinking. g.-Dickens.
MOMENTS of triumph are not always
moments of happiness. Mrs Ellis.
GET atop of your troubles, and then
they're half cured.-L. NJ. Alcon.
WE do not count a mans years until
he has nothing else to count.-Ener-
son.
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.
Ir is not miserable to be blind he
only is miserable who cannot acqulesce
in his blindness with fortitude, Milton.
I'VE never any pity for conceit<d peo-
pie, because I think they carry their
comfort about with them. .-George
Eliot.
VINO can doubt that anything which
makes q man discontented with his
state, without giving him the certainty
of q better, is a curse?-G. +. H.
James.
THERE is something very sublime,
though very fanciful, in Piato's descrlp-
tiun of the Supreme Being, that truth
is his body, and light his shadow"
addison.
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.
AristOtlc.
SELF-RENUNCIATIoN is not surrender
of will. The will is never so strong as
in giving up, for principle aud the COM
mon veal, self-interest or sensual de-
light.-C. A. Bartot.
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.-George Eliot
LIKE brsakfast-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 Oh
things.-George EItot.
He is no common benefactor who
shrewdly gathers from the world man
fold literature its words OF finest W.T.
and maturest wisdom for our entertain
ment, instruction, and inspiration.
He who bids the law to be supreme
makes God supreme; but he who en-
trusts man with supreme power gives n
to n wild beast-for such his appetties
sometimes make him. aristotle.
THERE is power in the direct glance
| of a sincere and loving human soul,
which will do more to dissipate preju-
dice and kindle charity than the most
elaborate arguments.-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 all the
bright berries that hang in poisonous
clusters over the path Of life. Landor'
| Has it never occurred to us, when
surrounded by sorrows, that they may
be sent to us only for our instruction,
as we darken the cages OF birds when
we wish to teach them to sing?-Rtch
ter.
ALL things are literally better, lowell
err and more beloved for the imperfee
tious that have been divinely appointed
that the law of human life may be effor'
and the law of human judgment mercy
Ruskin.
Ir is precisely the proudest and most
obstinate men who are the most liable
TO shift their position and contradlct
themselves everything is easier to
them than to face the simple fact that
rhey have been thoroughly defeated,
aud must begin life anew.-6eorge
Eliot. :,
LIFE has such hard conditions that
every dear and precious gift, every rare
virtue, every pleasant faculty, every
genial endowment, love, hope, Joy, wit,
| sprightliness, benevolence, must some.
times be put into the crucible to distiii
the one elixir-patience.-GaH Ham'E
ton.
The activity,.of the young is like thas
Of railcars in motion-they tear along
with noise and turmoil, and leave peace
behind them. The quietest hooks per-
vaded by them lose their quietude as
they pass, and recover it only on theiI
departure. Times best gift to use il
serenity.-Bovee.
The strong emotions from whioh.th'
life of human being receives nov
bias win their victory as the ses wis'
his though their advance may be sure
they will often, after mightisr wav'
than usual, seen to roll back so far ~
to lose all the ground they had made