The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-08-17
LAKE CHARLES CALCASEU PARISH LOUISIANA FRIDAY AUGUST H.
Jewel CHsi<et.


lie that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass
himself.
A generous man will place the bone.
fits he confers beneath his feet those
he receives, nearest his heart.
God is on the side of virtue--for
whoever breads punishment suffers II ,
aud whoever deserves it dreads it.
We may do a very good action and
not bo a good man, bnt VIC cannot do
very i'll one and not be an I'll man.
Nothingi is more ruinous for man
than, when he Is mighty enough in any
part, to right himself without right.
He that doeth base thing In his
zeal for a friend, burns the golden
thread that ties their hearts together,
fyou wish to appear agreeable in
society, you must consent to be taught
many things which you know already,
There is something higher than look.
ing on all sides of question. 1t is
to have the charity to believe that
there Is another side.
Mother wisdom, nor personal purity,
nor authority, nor eloquencc, nor any
ordinary gift of the human mind, is to
bo compared for power with sympathy,
Great minds, like heaven, are pleased
in doing good, though the ungrateful
subjects of their favors are barren in
return.
1t is only necessary to grow old to
become more indulgent. see no fault
committed that | have not committed
myself,
1t is the bounty of nature that VIC
live, but of PHILOSOPHY that we live
well; which is, in truth, greater ben
eft than life itself,
Ho who truly wishes the happiness
of any one, cannot be long without
discovering some mode of contnbHt.
ing to it.
If a cause be good, the most violent
attacks of ITS enemies will not lnjure
it SO much as the lnjudlcious support
of its friends.
True fortitude is seen in great ex-
ploits that justice warrants, and that
wisdom guides all else is towering
frenzy and distraction.
Like tho body, the mind weares
moro from the want of action than the
excess of it. Fatigued by trifes, we
find relief in graVer thoughts.
Homeliness has this advantage over
its enemy, beauty. 1t is, that 1t is as
difficult for an ugly woman TO be ca
Illuminated, as for pretty women not
to be.
1t is better to judge between stran.
gers than between intlmates for by
the first, one is sure to gain a friend,
and by the other, an enemy.
What causes the majority of women
TO be so little touched by friendship is,
that it is inspired when they have once
tasted of love.
Wisdom and truth are immortal +;
but cunning and deception, the mete-
ors of the earth, after gIittering for a
moment, pass away.
In this theatre OF mans life, God
and angels only have a right to be
spectators. Contemplation and action
ought ever to be united.
True friendship is O plant Of slow
growth, and must undergo and with
stand the shocks of adyersity before it
is entitled to the appellation.
II you have performed an action
great and disinterested virtue, conceal
It /; if You publish it, you will neither
be believed here, nor rewarded here
after.
Wit is brushwood, judgment timber;
the one gives the greatest fame, the
other yields the most durable heat
and both meeting make the best fire.
Whenever you find great deal of
gratitude IN apoor man, You may take
it for granted that there would be as
much generosity if he we're q rich man.
The wisest man may be wiser to-day
than be was yesterday, and to morrow
than be IS to-day. Total freedom
from change would imply total free.
dom from error; but this IS the pre-.
rogatiVe Of 0mniscience alone.