The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-05-28
Wise Sayings.


as whcn they think themselves wise.
1t is less difficult to feign the sensations
we have not than to conceal those we have.
We follow the world in approving Others,
but we 90 far before it in approving our
selves.
Those who have had the most forgiven
them should be the least addicted to
slander.
Oyer-eanest reservations give men suspi-
con that the speaker is conscious Of his
own lalsities.
A fool never has thought; mailman has
lost it; and an absent man is, for the time,
without it.
As nightingales love most to sing near an
echo, so does the heart speak loudest near
tones of music
We are too apt to mistake the echoings
of our own vanity for the admiration and APP
plausc of the world
Either the future or the past is written in
every face, and makes us, if not melancholy,
at least mild and gentle.
We pass our lives in regretting the past,
complaining of the present and indulging
false hopes Of the future.
Men often are not aware of what severe
and untiring labor they are capable, until
they have made trial of their strength.
You need not talk too much to get repu-
tation for sense. One good remark is better
than twenty dull and common ones.
Blessed is he who dies in the flower Of
youth; it is as if he had risen from the midst
of feast before he was intoxicated.
There are 400 veins in an inch of moth
er-of pearl. These decomposc the rays of
light and produce the prismatic colors.
A short prayer reaches hcaven-a hint to
those who want favors not to molest others
with long letters and loud complaints.
Chill penury weighs down the heart ITSELF
and though it sometimes be endured with
calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
The nerve which never relaXcs, the eye
which never blenches, the thought which
never wanders-these are the masters of
victory.
Beware of such food as persuadcs a man,
though he be not hungry, to eat; and those
liquors that will prevail on man to drink
them when he is not thirsty.
We have observed many tumbles through
life, but have invariably noticed that it is
the man who mounts the high horse who re-
ceiyes the least pity when he falls.
1t is in vain to hope to please all alike
Let man stand with his face in what direc-
ton he will, he must necessasily turn his
back on half of the world.
1t is not the great, the noble, the strong
that are of the most destructive nature. 1t
was the lean kline of Egypt that became the
devourcrs, and yet were as skinny as be-
fore
With time and patience the mulberry
leaf becomes satin. What diiicultyis is there
at which man should quail, when worm
can accomplish SO much from the leaf of
the mulberry.
In AL worldly things that man pursues
with the greatest eagemess and attention of
mind imaginable, he finds not halfthc plea.
sure in the actual possession of them, as he
proposed to himself in the expectation.
1t is good policy to strike while the iron
is hot; it is still better to adopt Cromwell's
procedure and make the iron hot by striking.
The master-spirit who can rule the storm is
great but he is much greater who can both
raise and rule it,
The most important lesson of life is to
know how to be happy within ourselves,
when home is our comfort and all in it, even
to the dog and cat, share our affection. Do
not refine away happiness by thinking that
which is good may be better.
\ beautiful thought is suggested in the
Koran; angels, in the grave will not ques-
| ton thee rs to the amount of wealth thou
hast left behind thee, but what good deed
thou hast done in the world, to entitle thee
to a scat among the blessed"
y peverse fellow may stumble and knock
his nose against the ground ahundred times
a day, and yet be more obstinate and assured
than before; and if he supposed that like
the ancient sons of the earth, he acquired
new strength from each fall
Bulwer, in one of his early novels, writing
Of love- says, "pcrhaps il would be better if
we could get rilof it altogether, Life would
go on happier and smoother without il.
Friendship is the wine OF existence, but love
is the dram-drinkiug,"
We have known vast quantity Of nom
sense talked about bad men not looking you
in the face. Don't trust that conventional
idea Dishonesty will stare honesty out OF
countcnance any day in the week, if there is
anything to be got by it,
1t is not high crimes, such as robbery and
murder, that destroy the peace of society
The village gossip, family quarrels, jealous
les, and chickering's between neighbors, med
dlesomeness and tattling, are the worms
which eat into all social happiness.
Nothing is so disgusting as the whine of
tenderness; the mere cant of feeling, the
parade Of sympathy; they bring the most
amiable part of our nature into disrepute,
and prevent many man from being gener-
Gus, lest he should be thought ridiculous,
Fattery is compound of falsehood, sell
fishness, seryility and ill-manners. Any one
of these qualities is enough to make char
acter thoroughly odious. Who, then, would
be the person, or have any concern with
| him, whose mind is deformed by four sucl
vices
We are ruined not by what we really
want, hut by what we think we do
therefore never go abroad in search of you
) wants, If they be real wants they will com,
home in search OF You; for he who buy
what he does not want, will soon want wha
be cannot buy,
Men sometimes think that the high, darl
cliffs Of sorrow will darken their life forever
but soon the green and undulating meadow
spread far away in pastoral beauty, and tn
daisies bloom along the banks where th