Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
VARIETIES.

Servants belong to the hire types of
humanity.
Devotion sweetens all that courage
must endure.
The purest water runs from the
hardest rock.
Heaven must be in me before I can
be in heaven.
Prefer truth before the maintaining
of an opinion.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are
sons of our deeds.
Some men talk by the yard and
think by the inch.
Almost the best rule of life is to be
worthy of ones self.
Our deeds determine US as much as
we determine our deeds.
There is no pleasure but that some
pain is nearly allied to it.
One smile for the living is worth a
dozen tears for the dead.
The best lightning rod for your pro-
lection is your own spine.
Principles, like troops of the line. are
undisturbed and stand fast.
When credulity comes from the heart
it does no harm to the intellect.
The truly wise man should have no
keeper of his secrets but himself
knowledge, like religion, must be
experienced" in order to be known.
Though God may seem to frown in
His providences, yet H always smiles
in His promises.
Those days are lost in which we do
no good; those worse than lost in
which we do evil
Virtue dwells at the head of river,
up which we cannot get but by rowing
against the stream.
Falsehood may be thick crust, but
in the course of time truth will find a
place to break through.
Poverty often deprives man of all
empty bag to stand upright.
1t is with you as with planets; from
the first fruits they bear we learn what
may be expected in the future.
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour Man
has no harbor; time has no shore; it
rushes on and carries US with it.
To explain love to him who loves
not is but to give him the more plenti-
full material for misintepretation.
Great men should think of opportu-
nifty and not of time. Time is the ex
cuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
He who comes up to his own idea of
greatness, must always have had
very low standard of it in his mind.
Envy is a passion so full of cowar-
dice and shame that nobody ever had
the confidence to own its possession.
Happiness is like sunbeam, which
| the least shadow intercepts, while ad-
versity is often as the rain of spring.
Frankness speaks of those present
! as if they We're absent; and charity of
the absent ones as if they were present.
To endeavor to work upon the vul-
gar with fine sense is like attempting
to hew blocks of marble with a razor.
Good qualities are the substantial
riches of the mind; but it is good
breeding that shows them off to advan-
tage.
The road to home happiness lies
over small stepping-stones. Slight
circumstances are the stumbling blocks
of families.
Give me the benefit of your convic-
tions, if you have any, but keep your
doubts to yourself, for I have enough
of my own.
Disappointment is not in the vocab-
ulary of faith. Expectation is not
faith, and our expectations are often
disappointed.
Don't be discouraged when you make
mistakes, your future may be better
and brighter for the lessons you learn
from mistakes.
The prudery that outlives woman's
youth and beauty reminds me of a
scare-crow left in the field after the
harvest is over.
The pleasantest things in the world
are pleasant thoughts, and the great
est art in life is to have as many of
them as possible.
Right habit is like the channel which
dictates the course in which the river
shall flow, and which grows deeper
and deeper each year.
Suffering is the plow which turns up
the field of the soul, unto whose deep
furrows the allwise Husbandman scat
ters His heavenly seed.
Memory can CLEAN but can never re-
new. 1t brings us joy faint as the per-
fume of tlowers-faded and dried, of