The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-10-11
Thoughts.

The way OF the just is upright.
ness.
Better to avert the ill than to do
the good.
Speak for the present, write for
the future.
Next to living among the good is
hearing about them.
Experience is the only good tits
safer to borrow than to buy.
The fool knocks his enemy down;
the wise man lives him down.
Doubt is the tax man pays for the
luxury of useless knowledge.
IT silence is good for the wise, how
much better it is for the foolish!
Fear not lest thy life come to an
end; but, rather, lestit never begin.
Only by pride cometh contention:
but with the we'll advised is wisdom.
The least each man can do Is to
add one more good man to the
world.
TO sin we may be led by others !:
to virtue we must be led by our
selves.
Few can tell what they know
without also showing what they do
not know.
Better to deserve praise without
having it, than to have it without
deserving it.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also
wisdom, and instruction, and un.
derstanding.
An angry man stirreth up strife,
aud a furious man aboundeth in
transgressions.
Study the lives of the great, to be
guided by their virtues, to be warn
ed by their faults.
Two things care not to know,
says Panin, what is unknowable,
and what is Improbable.
The best way to show our appre.
citation of divine forbearance is to
be fOrbearing ourselves.
To seek virtue for the sake of hap.
piness, is AS reasonable as to dig for
iron with a spade of gold.
When the wicked are multiplied,
transgression increased: but the
righteous shall see their fall.
He loveth transgression that
lovetf strife: and he that exalteth
his gate seeketh destruction.
HAPPY is the man that f.areth
Away: but he that hardenrth his
heart shall fall into mischief.
Silence is wise when we are tempt
ed to speak a word to the prejudice
of any one of our fellow-men.
Seest thou man that is hasty in
his wordss there is more hope of
a fool than of him.-Solomon
Art thou good Pride not thy
self upon it. 1t is not thou that art
good, but the God within thee.
Asyon do not sweeten your mouth
BY saying honey, so you do not grow
virtuous by merely talking OF virtue.
The work of righteousness shall
be peace and the effect of righteous
ness quletnesS and assurance for
ever.
As the flower, when plucked for
enjoyment, begins to wither, so does
virtue practiccd for reward begin to
vanish.
Breadth of base, and narrowness
OF top, are indeed the strength of
the pyramid, but the weakness of
the fool.
Truth has more TO fear from
friends that lose their charity in its
defence, than from foes that lose
their sense in its attack.
A solemn and religious regard to
spiritual and eternal things is an
indispensable element of all true
greatness.-DgnieJ Webster.
We can never be really simple
hearted, earnest lovers of the truth
unless We tear out of our minds and
hearts the spirit of prejudice.
Art thou about to Ope thy mouth
Be not like the cask which rattles
because is empty, but like the cask
which rolls quietly because Its full.
You can't be dishonest aud live.
IN any worthy or noble sense. To
get a full purse and a dead con-
science, isa poor exchange.-Geikie.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to
do, do it with thy might; for there
is no work, nor device, nor knowl.
edge, nor wisdom, in the grave,
wbithar fhcu rcnct Cnyo.