Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-24
VARIETIES.

will learn.
1t is well to think we'll: it is divine
to act well.
Have not the cloak to make when il
begins to rain.
There can be no Christianity where
there is no charity.
Soft words, warm friends; bitter
words, lasting enemies.
One cannot always be a hero. but
one can always be a man.
Incidence is the rust of the mind
and the inlet of every vice.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those
who need it most take it least.
Wounds of the heart are the only
ones that are healed by opening.
1t is easier to suppress the first de-
sire than to satisfy all that follow it.
1t isn't hard for a man to mind his
own business, but it's awful tiresome.
The creed of the true saints to make
the best of life, and make the most of
of it.
Let all seen enjoyments lead to the
unseen fountains from whence they
flow.
There is nothing SO strong or safe in
an emergency Of life as the simple
truth.
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an extravagant man grows poor bv
seeming rich.
Temperance gives nature her full
play, and enables her to exert all her
force and vigor.
Ii God gives US food for our lives, let
US not, with murInuring Israel. ask
food for our lusts.
1t Is with antiquity as with ancestry;
nations are proud of the one, and indi-
viduals of the other.
This life's contradictions are many.
Salt water produces fresh fish, andho
words produce GOODNESS.
Take your stand by the altar of
truth and not be led or driven thence
by sophistry or by ridicule.
The aching head may cease to throb
when laid upon that softest pillow for
human pain-"God knows"
A living, lovable Christian is the
best reply to infidelity-the most pow
erful argument for the gospel.
When the heart is not occupied by
good thoughts, bad ones are ever
ready to insinuate themselves
Our grand business in life is not to
see what lies dilnly at distance, but
to do what lies clearly at hand
A good deed is never lost; he who
sows courtesy reaps friendship and he
who plants kindness gathers love.
Foolishness places itself in the fore
most rank to be observed; intelligence
stands in the hindmost to observe.
Four things come not back. The
broken word, the sped arrow, the past
life, and the neglected opportunity.
You may shrink from the far reach
ing solitudes of your heart, but no
other foot but yours can tread them.
"Generous to fault may be said of
the majority of men-at least they are
generous enough to their own faults.
Handwriting is no index to charac-
ter We hold notes written in every
style, but the writer's are all bad men.
One who is content with what he has
done will never become famous for
what he will do He has lain down to
die.
The chief proprietors of wisdom are,
to be mindful of things past, careful of
things present, provident to things to
come.
A mans first care should be to avoid
the reproaches of his own heart, his
next to escape the censures of the
world.
With contentment, the lowest hovel
is more of a place than the loftiest
mansion without it. Diogenes lived
happy in a tub.
1t is one of the most beautiful COM
of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without
helping himself.
Every man has some particular train
of thought which he falls back upon
when alone. This in great degree
moulds the man.
Plato will have disciples, but Soc
rates will have adorers; because if the
one knew how to think, the other
knew how to die
The beautiful is manifestation of
the secret laws of nature, which, but
for this appearance, had been forever
from us.
There never was in the world two
opinions alike, no more than two hairs