The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-02-23
GOLDEN LEAFLETS.
Grains Of Wisdom Cleaned Here
and There from Various
Sources.

| Sources.
Patience is the final victor.
Life is a flower of the morning.
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
+ good example is the best sermon
He who is penitent is almost limo
cent.
Love is the highest multiple of the
heart.
The smallest crust may save d
human life.
The smallest spark may fire field
of grain.
The smallest act may lead to human
strife.
A happy heart is better than a
heavy purse.
The simplest deed may tell the
truly brave.
Thanksgiving isgood, but thanksliv.
ing is better.
Truth is not cherished where sin is
nourished.
The breath of prayer comes from
the life of faith.
"Love is blind,' but jealousy see
more than really exists.
Happy the man whose ears car
catch the music of the world.
| Every man defines cowardice in hi
own case as discretion.
No paradise is safe from which thu
devil cannot be kept out.
There has never been a mean mar
and at the same time virtuous.
Pedantry and taste are as inconsist
ent as gayety and melancholy.
Give the past to God and determine
to make good use of the future.
One of the easiest things to believ'
is pleasing lie about ourselves.
The best things any mortal hath ar
those that every mortal shares.
Defend me from my friends; l cal
defend myself from my enemies.
The prayer that does not bring u
nearer to God puts us farther away.
We probably should never want tc
see ourselves as others see US the seconC
time.
The man who behaves himself keep:
good many other people out of mis-
chief.
The biggest coward you Cali find
anywhere is the man who is afraid tC
do right.
Nature has something made fool
but coxcomb is always of a mans
own making.
The people who disappoint God the
most are those who try to fight then
own battles.
A friend is less a rock OF l"fuge
than a cross to be alternatel; sus : ned
and leaned upon.
You cannot dream yourself into q
character you must hammer and forge
yourself one.
We all want little more than we
have, and it is for the good of oul
souls that we don't get it.
1t is better to give while you are
living than to leave your money to BIZ
divided among lawyers.
! In reckoning the worlds benefac
tons the fancy that fits must share
equally with the patience that plods
If kind natures were ever given tt
revenge, the most effective means *
such would be favor shown to ar
enemy.
Rules and resolutions are sort o
poor relation, expected not to inter
tere with matters generally, but gooe
to appeal to in an emergency.
Youthful defects OF vanity afecta
ton are classed as moral shortcom
ings only after the dark spot of disso
luton has appeared in the ideal.
Just and contemplative minds will
question whether finite life may be
long enough to commit sins deserving
an eternity of punishment.
Man is not measured by what he
does not do, though in condemnine
some offenses we are apt to place the
| offenseless clod above the offending
man.
Heaven is no place of moping
drousiness, inglorious Incidence, sheer
idleness and nothingness. - /oA,
Whitley.
The Christians life is as a silver,
stream pursuing its way through a
checkered wilderness, sometimes wind.
ing, often cloudy.-Winslow.
Gain may be temporary and uncer.
tain but ever while you live expense
is constant and certain, and it Is easier
to build two chimnies, than to keer
one in fr,el Ex1ukI;n
Precepts are the rules by which we
ought to square our lives. When they
are contracted into sentences, they
strike the affections; whereas admoni-
ton is only blowing of the COAL
Seneca.
Faith makes the Bible its pocket
book, while unbelief makes the pocket
book its Bible. The one rests its
future prospects on the promises OF
God, the other on the size of the