The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-05-29
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

"o "'o is always nrm, and tru,
hrmness is always love.
Our Preside must be our sanctuar;es
our refuge from the world.
Honor demanded, is as worthless,
as insult undeserved is hurtless,
A thing Is never too otten repeated
which is never sufficiently learned.
10 count but few things necessa
ny is the foundation of many virtues
The man who has no poetry in his
soul never finds any anywhere else
A good surgeon must have an "a
giles eye, lions heart and lady.
hand.
Rest satisfied with doing well, ant
leave others to talk of you as the,
please.
Though experience keeps all expeu
slve school, he's tho only master fol
q fool.
Our happiness and misery are trust
ed to our conduct, and made to de.
pend upon it.
In childhood be modest, in youth
temperate, in manhood just, in old
age prudent.
There is q class of men ever ready
to pump you to any extent, if you on
ly give them a handle.
As no man eau expect continual
train OF prosperity, he ought not to
apprehend n constant adversely.
Where the people are we'll educa :
ed, the art of plotting state is best
learned from the writing OF Plato.
AS great body is not without a
like shadow, neither is any eminent
virtue without eminent detraction.
True politeness is the last touch OF
noble character. ''It is the gold
on the spire, the sunlight on the corn
field"
To wish to do without our fellows
and to be under obligation to no one
is sure sign of a soul void of sensi
bility.
Good breeding is beneyole1ce in
triAes, or the preference Of others to
ourselves in the daily occurrence of
life.
Every day 10 little life, and our
whole life is but a day repeated. There
fore, live every day as if it would be
the last.
Absence diminishes the ordinary
passions and increaces the great ones,
as the wind extinguishes the candle
and lights.
He that cannot forgive others,
breaks the bridge over which he must
pass himself, for every man has need
to be forgiven.
Nothing is truly Infamous but
what is wicked; and therefore shame
can never disturb an innocent and
yirtuous mind.
Truth--the open, bold, honest truth
is always the wisest aiways The SAT
est; for every one in any and all cir
cumstapces.
II to do were easy as to know what
were good to do, chOpels had been
churches, and poor mems cottages
princes palaces.
The action of man is type OF
his thought and will, and work Of
charity is type Of the charity with
in, in the soul and mind.
If we we'll knew how little others
enjoy, it would rescue the world from
one sin; there would he no such thing
as envy upo" earth.
To rejoice in auother's prosperity
is to give content to your own lot; to
mitigate another's grief is to alleviate
or d spell your own.
Our life is made up OF little things.
Our attention to them is the index to
our character, and often the balance
by which it is weighed.
Only the trus man can really be
brave, only the righteous man walks
through the darkness and faces with 3
serene soul the mystery Of life.
Gratitude ia the homage the heart
renders to God for Hi~ goodness.
Christian cheelfnlness is the external
manifestation Of that homage.
Good manners +, the art of making
those people easy with whom we con-
verse; whoever makes the fewest per-
sons uneasy, is the best bred man in
company.
Never be cast down by trides. II