The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-07-09
Wise Sayings.

Rear and Ll,mc NOT what Won cannot
change
It is easier to avoid a fault than to acquire
perGoction
The tonpue cannot easily be chained when
once let loose.
To grow nm to the sl,io, we must he plant-
ed low in the dust
Evil men sneak that which thew wish
rather than that which thov kno,y
A woman fascinates quite AZ often by what
she overlooks As by what she sees.
Most fashions are ridiculous. but one is
OBLIGED TO avoid onpeorinp more ridiculous.
4 word unspoken is a word in the scab-
bard word uttered is a word in another's
hand
The most delicate the most sensible of all
pleasure, consist. in promotinr the pleasure
of others.
The true secret of living at ueace with all
the world is to have an humble opinion of
ourselves.
Flattery is like fail. which. if not
adroitlv used. will box your own cars in.
stead of tickling those of the corn.
If we waited until it was perfectly conve.
nient half of the good actions of life would
never be accomplished.
The best humor is that which contains
most humanity, that which is favored
throughout with tenderness and kindness.
Our principles are the SPRINGS of our mis-
ery or happiness. Too much care. therefore.
cannot be taken in forming our principles.
1t is not the height to which men are adj
yanced that makes them riddv. it is the
looking down with CONTEMPT upon those be-
meath.
There are those who shrink from making
| a beginning in religious life because they
conceive that thew lack the ability to pur.
sue it,
The most fruitful and natural exercise of
the mind is conversation. We find the use
of it more sweet than of any other action of
| life.
Difference often shrinks and withers as
much upon the approach of intimacy as the
sensitive plant does upon the touch of ones
finger.
To confound wealth with happiness is to
mistake the means for the end, You might
as we'll fancy that a knife and fork will rive
you an appetite.
The loss of friends is wholesome grief,
and the tears of sympathy are like balm to
the sufferer but the loss of property is a
wound that testers
1t is much better to decide difference be-
tween enemies than friends; for one of our
friends will certainly become an enemy. and
one of our enemies friend.
Experience teaches, it is true; but she
never teaches in time Each event brings
| its lesson, and the lesson is remembered, but
the same event never occurs again.
If you wish to live the life of a man and
not of fungus, be social, be brotherly, be
charitable, be sympathetic. and labor earnest
ly for the good of your kind,
The law of the pleasure in having done
anything for another is that the one almost
Immediately forgets having given, and the
other remembers eternally having received.
Enemies spring up everywhere of their
own accord. Friends are reared in the af-
fections, and cease to be such as soon as they
are removed from the conservatory of the
heart.
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders
it maintains commerce; and we often pay,
not because it is Just to discharge our debts,
but that we may more readily find people to
trust lis.
People who brood over their sorrows are
usually successful in Matching numerous
| family, and those who nurse their wrath to
keep it warm are sure of comfortable tenn
perature Of indignation.
woman should never consent to be mar
red secretly. She should distrust man who
has any reason to shroud i'll darkness the act
which in his own estimation should be the
| crowning glory of his life.
The man who talks everastingly and pro-
miscuously, who seems to have an exhaust
less magazine of sound, crowds so many
words into his thoughts that he always OBJ
'cureS and frequently conceals them.
An elevated purpose Is good and emo
onlg thlng' out we cannot begin at the top
oi It, we must work up 10 1t by the often
u.'ncult pam oi daily duty-of daily duty
always carefully performed
n perNerse fellow may stumble and knock
us nose against the ground hundred times
o"y, ana YET DC more obstinate and assured
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