The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-28
HICKMAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

WHEN anger rises, think of the cense-
quences
By attention ideas are registered in
the memory.
NATURE never says that which reason
will conFadict.
ABsESeE destroys trifing intimacies,
but it iIlFlgorates strong ones.
A,BTIoN breaks the ties of blood, and
forgets the obligations of gratitude.
ALL tmngs. are admired either because
| they are new or because they are great.
Is an angry instant man may do
| what lnetlme or repentance cannot
! undo.
Toomllch sensibihty creates unhap-
/ piness, % much insensibihty creates
crime -
LET ne man presume to give advice to
| others that hasnot first given good adj
vice to himself
Ii is always afe to learn, even from
! our manifestation safe 10 instruct.
/ even our friends
EMREsaoS is of more consequence
than shape; it vii light up features 9th
| erwise heavy.
Times are stubborn and viii be what
! they are, whatever We think them or
wish them b be.
THE heart, like balloon. is hghtened
! and elevated by throwing out some Of
its heavy lallasts of money.
HE thatboasts of his ancestors, the
/ founders aad raisers OF a family, doth
confess th& he hath less virtue.
DoN'r be beanXious until you are com
PEELED to be Many a man worries about
ghost that never appears to him.
NATURE onft sses that she has be-
slowed upon man most susceptible
heart, In tha she has granted tears.
AN active career Is not path of roses.
The moment You attempt distinction you
VIII be abused calumniated. reyiled
FIRST love, though the most ignorant.
Is the purest of all; its baudage Is closer
and thicker, but its piniOns longer and
purer.
IoU may keep your beauty, and your
health unless you destroy them yourself,
or discourage them to stay with you, by
using them III.
A FEw ideas of our own viii save US
from being too sensible 10 external i'm
pressions, as a light In our room makes
lightning less binding
OUTWARD actions can never give a inst
estimate of Us. since there are many per
fectlons of a man which are not capable
OF appearing III actions
DoNT be afraid of appearances so long
as your life Is all right. No one can
better afford to have ill-tempered things
said Of him than the man who does not
deserve them.
WE should never forget that home is
the residence not merely Of the BODY.
but the mind; and that the object Of all
ambition should be to be happy at home
and 10 lender home happy.
THERz Is a conscience Of the head as
feel as uTscff rem orse. il we hnve wasteeI
out natural talents, as if we have pre-
verted our natural virtues.
II you have made n mistake don't
think it a condescension to apologize.
The true gentleman Is always ready to
rectify blundcr. Only the mule bites
with one end and kicks with the other.
No two minds are ever the same and
therefore. any man who will give us,
fairly and frankly, the results Of his own
impressions. uninduenced 10y the servil-
ties of imitation, will be original
ALAS, how soon the hours are over
Counted as out to play the iovcri
And how much narrower is the stage
Allotted 10 10 play the sagei
But when play the fool, how wide
The theatre expands, beside,
How long the audience sit before US;
H0w many prOmpters what chorusl
GIVE nature n place to stand upon,
and she cannot be entirely subdued by
art. An orange tree IN a box Is still a
tree, and even the view cut into the shape
Of St. George and the dragon is more Of
growth than a manufacture.
The wonderful fortune of some writers
deludes and leads to misery a great num-
Der Of young people 1t cannot be too
often repeated that it is dangerous 70
enter upon n career of letters without
some other means of living An illus
trious author has said in these times:
Literature must not be leant on as upon
n crutch; it Is little more than a stick. 8"