Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-21
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

APPRECIATION is certain defornity.
ALovELY girl is above all rank.
VEHEMENcE without feeling is rant.
Few save the poor feel for the poor.
VIcroRY belongs to the most preserv-
ing.
NEXT to excellence is the appreciation
of it.
AMBITION is but the evil shadow of as
piration.
LET us respect gray hairs especially
cur own.
The more ] see of men the better
think OF animals.
HE first great work is that yourself
may to yourself be true.
COMMON sense in an uncommon degree
Is what the world calls wisdom.
The men Of the past had convictions,
while we moderns have only opinions.
Be NoBLEI aud the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
VIII rise in majesty TO meet thine own.
DEATH expecteth thee everywhere be
wise, therefore, and expect death every
where.
To BE exempt from the passions which
torment others is the only pleasing soh-
tude.
Who would venture on the journey
of life, if compelled to begin at the
end.
LOVES like the measles, all the worse
when it comes late in life.-Dougias
Je,ToLd.
How far that little candle throws its
beams, so shines good deed in a naughty
world
ADvEKsITY, how blunt are all the ar
those of guilt
He WHO cherishes his old knowledge,
so as continually to acquire new, may be
teacher of others.
THERE is no rule more invariable than
that we are paid for orr suspicious by
finding what we suspect.
WHAT. novelty is worth the sweet mo-
notony where everything is known, and
loved because it is known?
THE law forbids you to revenge: when
it ties up the hands of some, it ought to
restrain the tongues of others.
. THE mind profits by the wreck of every
passion, and we may measure one road
to wisdom by the sorrows we have under
gone.
THE obscurest sayings of the truly
great are often those which contain the
germ of the profoundest and most useful
truths.
THERE are four varieties in society /:
the lovers the ambitious observers and
fools. The fools are the happiest.-
Paine.
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can well and do
ing well whatever you do, without a
thought of fame.
THERE is less misery in being cheated
than in that kind of wisdom which per-
ceives, or thinks it pereeives, that all
mankind are cheats.
IT Is with diseases of the mind as with
diseases of the body : we are hall dead
before we understand our disorder, and
talf cured when we do.
If HE does really think that there is
no distinction between virtue and vice,
why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us
court our spoons.
POVERTY is hard, but debt is horrible.
A man might as we'll have smoky house
and scolding wife, which are said to be
the two worst evils of our life.
ALL the knowledge we mortals can &C.
quire is not knowledge possible, but
knowledge comparative, and subject to
the errors and passions of humanity.
We WALK in the midst of secrets we
are eneompassed with mysteries. We
know not what makes the atmosphere
that surrounds us we know not what
relations it has with our minds.
THERE are moments when our pas
sions speak and decide for us, and we
seem to stand by and wonder. They
carry in them an inspiration of crime,
that in one instant does the work OF
long reconciliation.