The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-07-23
Wise Sayings.

Patch grief with proverbs.
Live this day as if the last.
Vengeance has no foresight.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride
Immodest words admit of no defense.
This moment is Hover too farand brief.
Gold must be beaten and child dscourged.
Each present joy or sorrow seems the
chief.
Preiudices ere what rule the vulgar crowd.
Pride would never owe nor self-love never
pay.
Virtue has many preachers but few mar
tyrs.
Blood though it sleep at times, yet never
dies.
All natures differences keep all natures
peace.
How can we reason but from what we
know?
A good imitation is the most perfect origi-
nalty.
No one ever lost his honor except he who
had it not.
Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a
thorny stem.
From the lowest step there is a path to the
loftiost height.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most
trihing actions.
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the
friend of reason.
Women do not like to remember; men do
not like to fOresee.
He that loses his conscience has nothing
left worth keeping.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we
stoop than when we soar.
The contented man is never poor, the dis
contented never rich.
No man is securely loved except by those
who know his foibles
Man is a splendid animal, splendid in ash
es, pompous in the grave.
Malice sucks up the great part of her own
venom, and poisons herself
Scandal, like reptile craw ling over a
bright grass, leaves 4 trail and stain.
Beauty is worse than wine--it intoxicates
both the holder and beholder.
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade the
parish is his field of active service.
The man who is always fortunate cannot
easily have a great reverence for virtue
"An ounce Of mother" says the Spanish
proverb "is worth pound of clergy"
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong,
for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.
The ancients tell us,what is best, but we
must learn of the moderns what is fittest
To despise our own species is the price
we must often pay for knowledge of it.
An honest man never abandons a woman
but he knows how to make himself for
saken.
Preaching, in the first sense OF. the word,
ended as soon as ever the Gospel was
written.
The necessities that exist are in general
created by the superiuities that are enjoyed.
There are but three classes of men, the
retrograde, the stationary and the progress
sive.
Souls are dangerous things to carry
straight through all the split saltpeter of
this world.
The true secret of living at peace with all
the world is to have an humble opinion of
ourselves.
As long as love prevails in the house,
space of the breadth of sword is satisfac-
tory; as soon as it disappears sixty hand
breadths are not sufficient.
All there is honest of craftsmanship con-
sists in combining individual meannesses for
the public good
The smallest compliment we receive from
another confers more pleasure than the big
gest compliment we pay to ourselves.
l see hundreds of men who have what you
call religion, with whom / should scorn to
exchange my irreligion.
Friendship closes its eye rather than see
the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that
it is ever at the full.
The excessive pleasure in talking of our
selves ought to make us apprehensive that
we afford little to our auditors.
When we see ayoung man who spends all
he earns we are inclined to think he does
not earn all he spends.
Those who heap Goals of fire on an enemy's
head in order to love him are usually disap.
pointed if they do not scorch him.
He who commences with certainty will
end with doubts, but he who is content to
begin with doubts may end with certainty.
The successful rearing of children is the
greatest work which is accomplished on this
planet. All work eliminates in that.
The phrases that men are accustomed to
!, repeat necessarily end by becoming convic-
tions and ossify the organs of intelligence,
Reason is the director of mans will, dis
covering in action what is good, for the laws
of well doing are the dictates of right reason.
\ helping word TO one in trouble is often
like a switch on Il railroad track; but one
inch between leck and smooth-rolling pros
perity.
Groans and complaints are very we'll for
those who are to mourn for a little while
but sorrow that is to last for life will be
neither violent nor romantic.
1t is never too late with us so long as We
are still aware of our faults, and bear them
impatiently; so long as aspirations, eager for
conquest, stir within us.
People who are always on tenter-h hooks
straining after admiration or effect, had they
the beauty of seraphs and the tongues of
archangels, must inevitably become nui-
sances.
Art is not mans antagonism to nature, t
! is his cooperation with her, his imitation of
her, the union of his free force with hers to
. produce that which neither man nor nature
q could produce but for each other.
Y We know nothow many saviors each gem
h Grafton loses what noble champions of hu-
: manity, what antagonists of fraud, violence
G and superstition may lie confined in small