The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-06-11
Wise Sayings.
A noble nature may catch a wench.


Be great in act, as you have been in
thought.
Our souls much further than our eyes can
see.
We are not to lead events but to follow
| them.
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of
bread.
Measures, not men, have always been my
mark.
God hangs the greatest weight upon the
smallest wires.
| Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy
in misfortunes
1t is the wit, the policy of sin, to hate
those men we have abused,
All powerappears only in transition. Per-
manent power is stuff
| The great misfortune Of all is not to be
able to bear misfortune.
Grimes sometimes shock Us too much
vices almost always too little.
A proud man never shows his pride so
much as when he is civil.
The only true method of action in this
world is to be in it, but not of it.
There's divinity that shapes our ends,
rough hew them as we will.
He that will watch Providence shall new
er want a Providence to watch.
The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are
discovered by their proverbs.
| The force of his own merit makes his
way, gift that Heaven gives for him.
a man may be great by chance, but never
wise or good without taking pains.
1t is the bright day that brings forth the
adder, and that Graves wary walking.
1t is but one step from companionship to
slavery, when one associates with vice.
Active natures are rarely melancholy.
Activity and melancholy are incompatible
They who lie soft and warm in rich es-
tate seldom come to heat themselves at the
| altar
The FREELY only shines when on the wing;
so it is with the mind; when once we rest
we darken.
Every green herb from the lotus to the
| darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help in
curious man.
Deliberate with caution, but act with de-
cision and yield with graciousness or op-
pose with frmness.
Absence diminishes moderate passions and
augments great ones, as the wind extinguish-
es the candles and kindles the fire.
Toll, feel, think, hope. A man is sure to
dream enough nefore he dies without making
arrangements for the purpose.
The most afiiuent may be stripped of all
and find his worldly comforts, like so many
withercd leaves, dropping from him.
Politics resemble religion; attempting to
divest either of ceremony is the most certain
mode of bringing either into contempt.
The multitude which is not brought to
act as unity is confusion. That unity which
has not its origin in the multitude is
tyranny.
The presence of those whom we love is as
double life absence, in its anxious long
ing aud sense of vacancy, is as fortaste of
day.
Every event that aman would master mt st
be mounted on the run, and no man ever
caught the reigns Of thought except as it
salloped by him.
What a man knows should find expression
in what he does. The value of superior
knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to per-
forming manhood.
Virtue seems to be nothing more than
motion consonant to the system of things
were planet to fly from its orbit it would
represent a vicious man.
Happy the man who can endure the high
est and lowest fortune. He who has endured
such vicissitudes with equanimity has de-
prived misfortune of its power.
Sometimes hath the brightest day cloud
and after summer evermore succeeds barren
winter, with its wrathful nipping cold; so
cares and joys abound as seasons fleet
No mans abilities are 50 remarkably
shining as not to stand in need of proper
opportunity, patron, and even the praises
of a friend, to recommend them to the notice
of the world.
We moyetoo much in patoons; we march
by sections; We do not live in our vital in
diyiduality enough we are slaves to fashion
in mind and in heart, if not to our passions
and appetites,
1t is not so difficult to plant new truths as
to root out old errors, for there is this para
doX in men-they run after that which is
new, but are preiudiced in favor of that
which is old.
a boy will learn more true wisdom in a
public school in year than by private cd.
ucation in five. 1t is not from masters, but
from their equals, that youth learn Il knowl-
edge Of the world.
The history of any private family, howev-
er humble, could it be fully related for five
or six generation, would illustrate the state
and progress of society better than the most
elaborate dissertation.
There are hopes, the blooms of whose
beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of
description; too lovely, too delicate, too sa-
cred for words, they should be only known
through the sympathy of hearts
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm
blue sky, with its motherly, rebuking face.
She is the great reiormer, and where the
love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness
and wrong cannot long prevail.
When ambitious men find an open pas
sage they are rather busy than dangerous;
and if well watched in theirproceedings, they
will catch themselves in their own snare,
and prepare way for their own destruction.
If you devote your time to study, youwill
avoid all the irksomeness of this life nor
will you long for the approach of night, be-
ing tired of the day, nor will you be a bur-
den to yourself, nor your society insupporta-
BILE to others.
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