The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-08-28
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SENTIMENT AND SENSE.

WHAT makes life dreary is the want
Of motive.
TIE reward of one duty is the power
70 fulfill another.
BETTER be upright with poverty than
wicked with plenty.
TIE wounded heart heals, but the
scar remains forever.
The smallest perfect achievement is
nObler than the grandest failure.
THE veil which covers the face of fu-
turity is woven by the hand of mercy.
BIND love with duty, for duty is the
love of law; and law Is the nature of the
Eternal.
IT is said with life as with coffee, he
who drinks it pure must not drain it to
the dregs.
If misfortune hits you hard, YOU hit
something else hard; 90 into something
with a will.
WHETHER happiness may come or
not, one should try and prepare ones
solf n do without it.
The pain of parting is kecnest 10 those
who go, but it stays longer with those
who are left behind.
HAVE nothing to do with any man in
a passion, for men are not like iron, to
be wrought out when hot, or nodded into
any given form.
EVERY persons natural weight of af-
| Fiction is frequently made more unhap-
py by the envy, malice, treachery or in
/ justice of his neighbor.
THERE is a great deal of Unmapped
! country within us which would have to
be taken into account in an explanation
of our gusts and storms.
PROBABILITIES are as various rs the
faces to be seen at will in fretwork OF
paper hangings; every form Is there,
from Jupiter to Judy, if you only look
with creative inclination.
IF thou canst not obtain a kindness
which thou desirest, put good face on
it; show no discomfort nor SurlineSs; an
hour may come when thy request may
readily be granted.
Men and women make sad mistakes
about their symptoms, taking their vague,
uneasy longings sometimes for genius,
sometimes Tor religion, and oftener still
for mighty love.
IHAD rather teach my child to be
happy with the things of nature than to
! leave to him the wealth of an Astor. He
who can enjoy nature has an ineXhaust-
theater for the most agreeable amuse-
ment and ennobling instruction. Henry
| Ward Beecher.
As an appliance for the Improvement
of our friends, habit of scOlding pos
seSses no appTeciable virtue The effer-
vescence of ill-humOr in yourself, it can
have no healing or soothing qualities for
Others. The tendency of it is only evil.
| fail to remind US that we are wrong, and
that we are on the wrong road to set
any one else right.
TACT is the great lubricator of life
/ it oils the machinery, smOothes away
| trouble, looks far ahead perhaps to see
! it, and turns things into another chan,
/ mel But, however tact avoids the ne
! cessity of falsehoOd, it does not suppress
! the truth; it simply prevents refcrencC
| to the facts. 1t has Il sort of Self-reSpeCt
which does not blazon its affairs abroad
! it does not consider itself using deceit
when merely keeping its own business il
/ its own breast.
WE can not look, however imperfectly
upon a great man without gaining some
thing by him. He is the living light
/ fountain, which it is good and pleasant
/
which has enlightened the darkness o.
the world; and this, not as a kindleC
lamp only, but rather as Il natural In.
minary, shining by the Gift of heaven
a flowing light fountain, as | say, of ma
| tive original insight, of manhood and
| heroic nObleness, in whose radiance al
souls feel that it is well with them
Carlisle.
No man has a right to call that ar
amusement which, instead of recreating
uses up more than his occupation did
No man that amuses himself to-day
but that should be the better next day
| Whatever sets you forward tomorrow
! n matter what press, or pulpit, or al
the rest of the world but yourself may
| say, that's the true amusement for YOU
| That which would be an amusement fOl
/ a cathedral organ, would not be al
amusement for a jews-harp. Let no
| any mans conscience be more than ;
ruler for himself. You can't be tn,
monarch of other peoples consciences
FIGHT your own battles. Hoe YOU
own row Ask no favors of any one
and You'll succeed five thousand time
better than one who Is always beseech
ing some ones patronage. No one vii
ever help you as you help yourself, be
cause no one will be so heartily interest
ed in your affairs. The first step vii
not be such Il long one perhaps; bu
carving your own way up the mountain
YOU make each one lead to another, anC
stand firm in that while you chop still
another out. Men who made fortune
are not those who had five hundred dol
lars given them 10 start with, but started
fair with u dollar OF two. Men wh'
have by their own exertions acquired
fame have not been thrust into popular
ity by puffs begged or paid for, or giveI
in friendly spirit. They have stretched
out their hands and touched the public
heart. Men who win love, do their OWL
wooing. Whether you work for fame
for love, for money, or foI any thin;
else, work with Your hands, heart ano
brain Say - wiIl!" and some da,
you viii conquer. Never let any maj
have it to say; - have dragged You ul
i have made you what you are. - TO'
many friends hurt man more han nom
at all.
MarYeIs of a Minnesota Swamp.