The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-10-14
GRAINS OF GOLD.

A great name without merit is like an
epitaph on coffin.
Convictions that remain silent are
neither sincere nor profound.
Grace is the beauty of form under the
influence of freedom.-Schiller
Hearken to the warning of conscience,
il you would not feel its wounds.
We confess small faults in order to
insinuate that we have no great ones.
Pride is increased by ignorance those
assume the most who know the least.
Leisure is a very pleasant garment to
look at, but it is q very bad one to
wear.
Cultivate presence of mind, for it Of
ten forms the round Of security in th
ladder of life.
In misinterpreting another's motive
you sometimes reveal the bent Of yor
own mind.
Be like the tree which covers with
flowers the hand that shakes it.-Japan-
csc Proverb.
Repentance is not so much remorsc
for what we have done, as the fear o.
consequences.
Mans voice is given to him, like his
other talents, to be used, and not to be
abused.
There is no rule more invariable than
that we are paid for our suspicion by
finding what we suspect.
Human reason has so little confidence
in itself that it always looks for a pre-
cedent to justify its DEGREES.
Politics is o smooth file which cuts
gradually and attains its end by slow
progression. --Montesquieu.
Equity judges with lenity, laws with
extremity. In all moral cases the rea-
son of the law is the law-Scott.
Being our own master sometimes
means that we are at liberty to he the
slave Of our own follies, caprices and
passions
We sometimes meet an original gen.
tleman, who, if manners had not ex-
listed, would have invented them. EN-
erson.
1t is impossible to overvalue the
power which the soul has of loving
truth and doing all things for the sake
of truth.
Militarism is the most conspicuous
tyrant of the age in which we live, and
is the road that leads to war.-W. L.
Gladstone.
Absence diminishes weak passions
and, augments great ones as the wind
extinguishes tapers, but increases con-
hagration.
Leisure will always be found by per-
sons who know how to employ their
time; those who want time are the peo-
pie who do nothing.
Conscience will make us betray and
fight against ourselves, and for want Of
other witnesses will give evidence
against its owner.
Those who seek happiness in ostenta-
ton and dissipation are like those who
prefer the light of candle to the splen-
dor Of the sun.
Some are endowed with good tenn
per in a much greater degree than 9TH
ers. The gift can, however, be in
creased by the effort to cultivate it.
Whatever upholds mans self-re-
Bpect inclines him to self-improvement,
and to appreciate fully his good points
goes long way in helping him to cure
his faults.
Hath any wronged thee Be bravely
revenged slight it, and the work is be-
gun forgive it, and it is finished. He
is below himself that is not above in
iury.-Quarles.
More than talent, more than beauty,
more than wealth, sometimes more than
wisdom, good manners are the best let
ters of introduction and the 6rmest ce-
ment of friendship.
Private credit is wealth, public honor
is security the feather that adorns the
royal bird supports its fight strip him
of his plumage and you fix him to the
earth.-Letters Of Junius.
When one has been tormented and fa-
tigued by his sensitiveness, he learns
that he must live from day to day, for
get all that is possible, and efface his
life from memory as it passes.
Yesterday is yours no longer, to-
morrow may never be yours but to-
day is yours, the living present is yours,
and in the living present you may stretch
forward to tho things that are before
Learn to be pleased with everything;
with wealth, so far as it makes us bene-
fetal to others with poverty, for not
having much to care for and with OBJ
security, for being unenvied -Plutarch.
What is a gentleman ?" asks Thack-
cray. 1T is to be honest, to be gentle,
TO be generous, to be brave, to. be wise;
and, possessed Of all these qualities, to
exercise them in the most graceful man
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