The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27
Wise Sayings.

lie that will not reflect is a ruined man.
Life would be to smooth if it had no ruts
in it.
An inconstant man is dcspicablc; faith
less man is base.
Many dread being i'll who are very will
ing their lives should be.
In friendship, as in love, we are often hap
| pier In our ignorance than in our knowl-
edge.
A man is fortunate If his enemies too vio-
| lently censure and his friends moderately
praise him.
Respect is to the person beloved what tho
| enchasing is to the gem it shows the value
set upon it.
The happiest of pillows is not that which
love first presses IL is that which death has
frowned on and passed over.
They err widely who propose to turn men
to the thoughts Of better world by making
them think very meanly of this.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves
which VIC can suffer in others, is neither bet
| ter nor worse than to be more willing TO be
| fools ourselves than to have others so.
The difference between war and peace has
been well defined by one of the ancients;
"In time of peace the sons bury their faith
ers in time of war the fathers bury their
sons"
The separation Of friends by death is less
terrible than the divorce Of true hearts that
have loved, but cease to sympathise while
memory is still recalling whatthey once were
to each other.
! The blossom cannot tell what becomes of
It's odor, and no man can tell what becomes
of his influence and example, that roll away
from him, and go beyond his ken on their
| perlous mission.
Shoot a cannon ball against column of
smoke, and 1t skaters the column, but only
for an instant, W hen it reunites. So it iswith
death. 1t dissolves the theory we call
life for second, TO be reunited elsewhere
forever
1t is not poverty so much as pretence that
harnesses a ruined man and an empty purse
THE keeping up q hollow show that must
soon come to an end. Have the courage to
appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its
sharpest sting.
None but those who keep up appearance
against heavy odds can understand what SER
vitude pretence imposes upon the soul. The
sting of confessed poverty is not nearly SO
burning as is reality of being poor while
seeming to be rich.
Bulwer, in one of his early novels, writing
of love says, perhaps it would be better if
we could get rid of it altogether. Life would
go on smoother and happier without it,
Friendship is the wine Of existence, love is
the dram drinking"
Nothing is so disgusting as the whine of
tenderness the mere cant Of feeling, the pa
rade of sympathy; they bring the most ami
able part of our nature into dsrepute, and
prevent many man from being generous,
lest he should be thought ridiculous
Friendship has n noble effect upon all
states and conditions. 1t relieves our cares,
raises our hopes, and abates our fears. A
friend who relates his success talks himself
into a new pleasure, and by opening his
misforunes leaves part of them behind him.
. Without decision of character no man or
l woman is ever worth a button, or ever can
be. Without it n man becomes at once
good natured nobody, the poverty stricken
Possessor of but one solitary principle-that
of obliging everybody under the sun merely
e for the asking.
1t is n foolish idea to suppose that we
: must lie down and die because we are old.
= Who is old? Not the man of energy--not
: the day aborer in science, art, or be nevo-
v lencc, but he only who suffers his energies TO
9 waste away and the springs of life to become
motionless.
/ The fruits of the earth do not more obvi-
: ously require labor and cultivation to pre-
q pare them for our use and subsistence than
II our faculties demand instruction and regula-
r ton, in order to become upright and valua-
$ BILE members of society, useful to others, or
lie happy in ourselves.
Perfect content was never one of earth s
II institutions; that belongs to the sphere eths-
real, where perfection only is allowed, and
where we who cheat and torment each other
here hope to meet in united bond of love,
- which all the sins of the former life cannot
sever.
The activity of the young is like that o
IN railway trains in motion. They tear along
a with care and turmoil, and leave peace be-
ld hind them. The quietest hooks prevailed by
Ss them lose their quetude as they pass, anC
lie recover it only on their departure. Time,
er best gift to use is serenity.
ip Guilt, though it may attain tempora
ys spleDdor, can never confer real happiness
m the evil consequences Of our crimes long sur
N viye their commission, and, like the ghost o
Is, the murdered, forever haunt the steps of tn
Ter malefactor, while the paths of virtue, thougl
m seldom those of worldly greatness, are Away
yer those of pleasantness and peace.
at, A woman of irresoute constitution give
ed herself treat of the rack every time she
II called to make up her mind respecting som
lat petty domestic arrangement The poore,
ON arguments will make their way when deliy
the cred with irmness and decision. Indecisio
md arises from two very opposite causes-seeir
gh- our way too far, or not far enough.
III! Sometimes the mind greatly influences Il
'ns body Indeed, the operation of ment
vi causes on the bodily frame is not unknoy
' to any of Us, though they may perhaps n
l0N have been thought in regard 70 educatio
"'o to be of very great importance. The eflt
uo of anxiety, grief, and other feelings in
'US' minishing strength and wearing away hea
'"o are.quito familiar.
man falls in love just as he falls do,
ting stairs II is an accident perhaps, and W
to probable misfortune something which
2 a never intended, nor foresaw, nor approhe
~ to ed. But when he runs in love, it is as WI