The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-09-17

Many good purposes lie III the cnurcn-
yard.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not them
selves.
Literature is great staff, but a sorry
crutch.
who gives Il trne meanly is meaner than
the trihe.
The less we deserve good fortune the more
we hope for it.
Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates
both the holder and beholder
OF all the wild beasts, preserve me from
tyrant and all tame--a ilatterer
Young men soon give, and soon forget al
fronts, but old age is slow to both.
All the passions seek that which nourishes
them fear loves the idea of danger.
No really wise man ever asks questions
that he believes cannot be aggwcrcd.
Every generation laughs at the old FASH
ions, but follows religously the new.
He who has most authority and uses it the
least, is truly an admirable character.
Life is short, but the majority of people
manage to outlive themselves anyhow.
Our passions were not given us TO be de-
stroyed, but that we may control them.
You cannot separate wit from truth; truth
may not be wit, but wit is always truth.
Genius makes its observations in short
hand; talent writes them out at length.
The theory of medicine has cured more
patients than the practice of it ever has.
The world may make man unfortunate
but not miserable that is from himself.
OF all created things, animate of inani-
mate, we find no fools except among man
kind.
The man who said that virtue is its own
reward might have added that vice is too.
Had we no faults Of our own, we should
take less pleasure in observing those of 9th
ers.
The man who fully understands 4 subject
is satisfied to use the simplest means to ex-
press it,
Birth is shadow; courage, self-sustained
outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no
ancestors
There are few wild beasts less to be dread
ed than q communicative man having moth
ing to communicate.
The habit of looking on the best side of
every event is worth more than q thousand
pounds a year.
If you expect to keep friend you have
got to see all his virtues with both eyes, and
his Glilngs with only one.
The man that tells you that there is not
an honest man living, has investigated his
own character little too we'll.
Silence has been praised more perhaps than
it deserves, but in the case Of folly it cannot
be recommended too much
Every man has in himself continent of
undiscovered character. Happy is he who
acts the Columbus to his soul
My idea of perfect happiness is the con-
sciousuess of having done our duty and the
certainty of getting our reward
There is no dcarth of charity in the world
in giving but there is comparatively little
exercised in thinking and speaking,
You cannot make an enemy of the mean
est wretch with impunty, for he can set fire
to your barn just rs easy as anybody.
Know, he that foretells his own calamity,
and makes events before they come, twice
, over doth endure the pains Of evil destiny.
g Great souls forget not injuries till time
has put their enemies within their power,
f that they may show forgiveness is their own.
Everything that tends to emancipate us
e from external restraint without adding to our
: own power of selt-government is mischiev-
= Gus.
e This world is full of fools, and he who
k would not wish to see one must not only shut
). himself up alone, but must brake his look
d ingglass.
r If thou wouldst find much favor and peace
t with God and man, be very low in thine own
Y eyes. Forgive thyself little, and Others
Y much.
d When all is summed up, man never
n speaks Of himself without loss his accusa
s. tions of himself are always believed, hi
IS praises never,
ns Adroit observers will find that some wht
n affect to dislike hattcry may yet be fattereC
ii indirectly, by wellseasonod abuse of thei
OF rivals.
W The most civilized are AS near to barbal
IN ism as the most polished steel is to rust. M
m tions, like metals have only suIerfci'
IL brilliancy,
The thing in the world am most afraid
is fear and with good reasons, that passiC
h alone, in the trouble Of it, exceeding q
NV other accidents.
ng Men rather trust their eyes than their ca
ed the effect precepts is, therefore, slow al
re tedious, whilst that of examples is summa
g. and electual.
ilh There has seldom been great occas
on but that there has been found some one eqt
l to it, and that one has often sprung from
lis unexpected source
hre II is a great deal easier to be saucy than
n a be sarcastic but there are many critics "
ana haven't discovered the difference, and prol
sht bly, never will.
'e The man whom success rcnders more hu
the BILE, and at the same time more cautious
inc one who could never be oycrpowed or WEI
ood oncd 10y defeat.
ISM The world has always longcd for sen
my tions if man could invent new Pun
Ich- and Judy lac would be admired more 4
the one who had managed to make one
rel of flour 90 MS far rs two.
g Envy, if surrounded ON all sides by
NJ brightness of anolheI's prosperity, like
Ugh, scorpion confined within ciIcle Of ile,
sting itself TO death.