The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-07-27
THOUGHTS VARIOUS.

ceases.
The best Of friends are those who
are not blind to your faults or fail
ties, but tell you frankly OF them.
A friend who is quick ofstemper,
which soon blows over, is not SO
much to be feared as one VINO is slow
to anger and long in forgiving.
The man of one church is o. one
creed, one faith and ore belief. lie
is as narrow as his church aud as
ignorant as he is narrow.
A man OF one book is of one idea;
man Of many books, many ideas.
The broader and deeper his reading,
the more liberal his views and opin>
ions.
The man WHO builds his church
walls so high that he cannot shake
hands with his neighbor of another,
would lot off heaven to suit himself
and his immediate friends.
True living is so to live that when
we are dead we will be kindly re-
membered and always lamented.
Memory is the workshop to which
we go to get the tools to do the job
in hand. The better the memory
the sharper the tools,
Conscience can never sleep as
long as memory keeps wide>awake.
knowledge is the ever ready weapon
which memory keeps sharp.
If God would permit US to lit. the
veil of futurity, the world would
soon be a lunatic asylum. How
wise and merciful the Hand which
hides from us our future life.
He or she who can count upon two
disinterested friends is rich They
who can count upon four, are very
rich. Friendship means selt-sacri-
fee.
They who put the pump to work
upon the brain will certainly find a
flow of thought, if they are not
working dry well.
Thought like every thing else in
lite must be cultivated dug about
with the hoe of attention manured
with reflection watered with per-
ception, trained with Judgment,
and supported by we'll sunk posts Of
reason.
10 fGat with the current is the
tate OF the common every day mind.
But to change the current is the Ia
Dor Of herculean minds who are deaf
to danger, c0stom or fashion.
The man who has an ungraceful
heart, and unthanktul disposition, a
ca!lous soul, has only his equal in
the dog that would bite the hand
which feeds him.
The Ieacher who attempts to teach
without explaining, illustrating and
aiding, would be very much like one
teaching swimming who stands upon
the tank and tells how to move the
hands, body and legs, without sow
ing how.
| The demagogue is at home with
the simple and unlearned; his sophis-
try and assertions cannot be contra
dicted. Among his superiors and
equals he is as fish out OF water, he
is out of his native element.
That love which is born of passion
soon burns out; that of desire soon
tires when in possession; that of im>
aginatlon lives in fancy; that of rea-
son looks for merit; that of esteem
is lasting and growing.
They who are without aspirations
are but one degree removed from
brutes. Hope points to immortali>
ty: desire seeks it; faith believes in
it, and piety prOciaims as the inspir
alton of soul within us.
Ministers are spiritual light hous-
es, but their light should not con-
fuse, mislead and cause the travellers
upon the ocean of life to run their
banks into the waters of creeds, dog
mas and faiths. .
The man who is rich in words is
many times poor in deeds. He who
is going to do tomorrow never sees
a tomorrow.
The little seven year old girl who,
when asked what her soul was, said :
ct is my think" gave a wiser and
truer ans Eer than all speculative
philosophers who have written on
the soul.
The little girl who, when asked by
her father why she was not as pretty
Az her vOunoest sister said HRa.