The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-20
Wise Sayings.

great number of things, in order to avoid the
calamity of being ignorant of everything.
1t is only through woe we are taught to re-
fleet, and we gather the honey Of worldly
wisdom not from flowers, but from thorns.
Before you scold be sure that you are right
yourself He that attempts to cleanse blot
with blotted fingers makes Il greater blur.
The schoolboy counts the time till the re-
turn of the holidays the minor longs to be
of age the lover is impatient until he is
married
Public feeling now is apt to side with the
persccuted, and our modern martyr is full
as likely to be smothered with roses as with
Goals.
If you would win success, be punctual,
courteous, honest, economical, agreeable in
your personal habits and regardful OF your
health.
Yet have ever heard it said that spies
and tale-bearers have done more mischief in
this world than poisoned bowl or the assas-
sins dagger
One cannot learn everything; the objects
of knowledge have multiplied beyond tho
powers of the strongest mind to keep pace
with them all.
When doing what is right the heart is
easy and becomes better every day but when
practicing deceit, the mind labors and every
day gets worse.
When two loving hearts are torn assunder,
it is a shade better to be the one that is driv-
en- away into action, than the bereayed twin
that petriiies at home
He that loves christianity better than
truth will soon love his own sect or party
better than christianity, and will end by low
ing himself better than all.
An elevated purpose is good and ennob-
ling thing; but We cannot begin at the top
of it. We must work up to it by the often
difficult path of daily duty.
A covetous desire in the heart of youth is
the germ from which may spring poison
tree, whose atmosphere is pcstilential, and
the taste of whose fruit is death.
If we would give ourselves only half an
hours reflection at the close of every day,
we would preach to ourselves several of the
best sermons that could be uttered every
week.
The beautiful laws of time and space, once
dislocatcd by our inaptitude, arc holes and
dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and
stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield
us bees.
Decision and promptitude, even though
sometimes a man may err for want of due
deliberation, will, in the long run, more often
eonduce TO success than slow judgment
that comes too late.
The first step toward greatness is to be
honest, says the proverb but the proverb
fails to state the case strong enough. Hon
esty is not only the first step toward great
ness, it is the greatness itself.
The opportunity of making happy is more
scarce than we imagine; the punishment of
missing it is, never to meet with it again
| and the use we make of it leaves us to an
eternal sentiment of satisfaction of repent
| anee.
Lord, we know what we are, but know not
what we may be. Ofall the animals which
| fly in the air, walk on the ground or swim
1
to Rome, the most foolish animal, in my
opinion, is man.
five wouldhave powerful minds, we must
think if we would have faithful hearts, we
must love; if We would have vigorous mus
eles, we must labor; and these three
thought, love, labor-include all that is val
liable in life.
Fear guides more to their duty than graf
itude; for one man who is virtuous from the
love of virtue, from the obligation which he
thinks he lies under to the Giver of All,
there are 10000 who are good from their APP
prehension of punishment.
Fear is implanted in us as preservative
from evil but its duty, like other passions,
is not TO overbear reason, but to assist it
nor should it be suffered to tyrannize in the
imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or
beset life with supernumerary distresses.
The best thing to give your enemy is for
givness; to your opponent, tolerance to a
friend, your heart to your child, good ex-
ample; to father, Difference; to your
mother conduct that will make her proud
of you; to yourself, respect TO all men,
charity.
Discontents are sometimes the better part
of our life. / know not well which is the
most useful joy l may choose for pleasure,
but adversitics are the best for profit; and
sometimes those who do so far help me, as |
E should, without them, want much of the Joy
] have.
II we are faultless, we should not be 6
much annoyed by the defeats of those with
, whom we associate. five were To acknowl'
edge honestly that we have not virtue enough
TO bear patiently with our ncighbors' weak
nesses, We should show our own imperfec
tion, and this alarms our vanity.
The mixture of one error with much trutl
adulterates the whole; as the chalice o
/, pure liquid is rendered dangerously by tn
Infusion of a drop of poison, We shoul
therefore beware of all error, however sligl
and inconsiderable it may appear. One el
c ror may soon lead to lO0-ay, to 1000.
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y earliest ages. The oldest seals appear to ha,
II been impressed on white wax. Subsequen
ly yellow wax was used. At a more recel
period, scaling wax was color cd red al
~ about the fourteenth century it was color,
y green and sometimes black.
40 Not alone.to know, but TO act according
thy knowledge is thy detestation--proclail
the voice of my inmost soul, not for ind
no lent contemplation and study of thysef, i
st for brooding over emotions of piety-no,
he action was existence given to thee; thy
v tions, and thy actions alone, determine {
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