The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-06-01
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
On every night there lies reposo.
JNAoINATIoN ia the greatest despot.

On every night there lies repose.
IMAGINATION is the greatest despot.
THERE is no roal life but cheerful life.
WASr of good sense is tho worst kind
of poverty.
IMpArrENoE dries the blood sooner
than age or sorrow.
Love without return is like q question
without an answer.
Love, faith, paticnce-the three essen
tials to a happy life.
PRIDE hath two seasons-a forward
spring and early fall
IT is best not to dispute where there
is no possibility of convincing.
AS fire is discovered by its own light,
30 is virtue by its own excellence.
Ideas arc like boards; men do not hayo
them till they grow up VoItGtre.
Pretty women are like sovereigns; ono
hattcrs them only through interest.
THERE are three classesof men; the ret
rograde, the stationary, the progressive.
GREAT souls by instinct to each other turn
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Addition.
Suspicious among thoughts are like
bats among birds; they ever fly by twi-
light.
ALWAYS there is black spot in our
sunshine; it is the shadow of ourselves.
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THE wise man as well as the fool makes
/ blEndcrs. The wise man, however,
never makes tho same blunder twice.
APPEARANCES are nothing, if you are in
the right, but if you are in tho wrong
you must pay especial attention to them.
No man knows what ministerlng
angel his wife is until he has gone with
her through the fiery trials of this world.
THERE's moi a heart, however rude,
But hath some little flower,
To brighten up Its solitude,
And scent tho evening hour
/ PLEASURE is seldom found where it is
sought Our highest blazes of gladness
are commonly kindled by unexpected
sparks.
TIE best way to apologize is to do
such q kindness to tho offended one that
he will forget that you ever attempted to
iniure him.
As man is tho wiser for his learning,
it may administer matter to work i'll, o.
objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom
are born with n man.
/ WELL, well the world must turn upon It's axis
And all mankind turn with 1t, heads or tails,
/ And live nnd die, make love and pay our taxes,
And as the vcerng mind shifts, shift our sails.
THE way to produce n smile on TIE
face of nature is to plant it with seeds of
flowers. Tickle nature in that way and
she will laugh with blossoms.
THE foundation of every good govern
mcnt is the family. The best and most
prosperous country is that which has the
. greatest number Of happy iiresides.
NlANYa splendid genius was the despair
of good father when young. But all
of sudden he awoke and went into Nc-
tion like n soldier into battle, and made
name that will live forever.
THE two most precious things on this
side of the grave arc our reputation and
our life. But it is to bo lamented that
the most contemplate whisper may de-
prive us of ono, and the weakest weapon
of the other.
Love! what is it, and whence comes
it? How much has been written about
it, and how idlyi Neither statement,
comparison, nor analysis avails. Love is
love, n thing like nothing else in the
world-as real rs second sight. 1t
alone bestows the power Of seeing
/ hundred now truths otherwise invisible.
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