The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-10-21
BETTER THOUGHTS.

VICE has more martyrs than virtue.
A RESOLUTION is the lava of a civiliza-
ton.
IT is the purpose that makes strong
the vow.
GREAT things are obtained with great
difficulty.
He who agrees with himself agrees
with others.
FORTUNE does not change men; it I'M
masks them.
The force of ideas is never felt till they
are voted down.
THERE are two ways of pleasing-to
amuse and to interest
| CONQUER provinces, but Josephine
wins hearts. NapolCon.
The landscape, like veil over beautys
breast, hightens the charm it half con-
ceals.
The guarded and twisted oak has its
counterpart in the narrowed and stunted
mind.
THE covetous man makes two cents OF
one, and liberal man makes shilling
of it.
VIRTUE, as understood by the world, is
constant struggle against the laws OF
nature.
SMALL bodies with velocity have
greater momentum than large ma sses
without it.
No principle is more noble, as there is
none more holy, than that OF true
obedience.
WE attract hearts by the qualities we
display: we retain them by the qualities
we possess.
THEREare few occasions when ceremony
may not he easily dispensed with, kind
ness never.
IT is good in fever. and much better
in anger, to have the tongue kept clean
and smooth.
The human mind is like an irebriate
on horseback prop it on one side and 1t
falls on the other.
TINE crecps toward us with folded
wings, but when tbs past us, its wings
seem to flap with speed.
The raven is like the slanderer, seek
ing carrion to feed upon, and delighted
when feast is found.
TAKING penny that does not belong
to one removes the barrier between IN
tegrity and rascality.
ALL joys do not cause laughter; great
pleasures are serious; pleasures OF love
do not make us laugh.
A YEAR of pleasure passes like float
ing breeze, but moment OF misfortune
seems an age of pain.
LET everyone sweep the drift from
his own door and not busy himself about
the frost on his neighbours tiles.
THE activity and soundness of a mans
actions will be determined by the activity
and soundness of his thoughts.
Ir is safer to aiiront some people than
to oblige them, for the better man de-
serves the worse they will speak of him.
NEVER Join with your friend when he
abuses his horse or his wife, unless the
one is about to be sold and the other to
be buried.
To despond is to be ungrateful before
hand. Be not looking for evil. Often
thou drainest the gall of fear while evil
is passing thy dwelling.
A MANS yes and no. so his character.
A prompt yes or no marks the fine, the
quick, the decided character, and slow
the cautious or timid.
The man or woman whom excessive
caution holds back from striking the an
vii with the earnest cndeavor, is poor and
cowardly of purpose.
WHAT would be the state of the high
wavs of life if we did not drive our
thought-sprinklers through them, with
valve open, sometimes.
A MAN need only correct himself with
the same rigor that he reprehends others,
and excuse others with the same indul-
gence that he shows to himself.
The greatness of victory may be
estimated from the severity of the con-
hict. A man never has to struggle more
desperately than to overcome SELF
The only true way to deliver another
is to be thoroughly delivered myself; SC
long as | am in the fire it is quite impos-
sible for me to pluck another out of it.
WE must get at the heart of the people
if we would know what is best for the
government 1t is the breath of the
people that purities the blood OF the
nation.
DEEP feeling is contagious. Word'
poured forth from burning hearts are
sure to kindle the hearts OF others.
Hearts that can stand everything else are
often melted by tear. Let the heart
palpitate in every line and burn in every
. word.
IT. You hope for what is reasonable
and then work, you will probably get it..
But if you expect the impossible, like the
man who wanted to buy pair of spec
tacles with which to get a bird's:eye- view
of the city, you are bound to be disap-