The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-05-23
NO. I3.
Wisdom in q Nutshell.

tongue it has [Talmud.
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil
man, myself.-ET. Brooks.
What morality requires true states
manship should accept Burke.
A wise man should have money in
his head, not in his heart.-ISwift.
Shun the inquisitive, for you will
be sure to find him leaky.-Horace.
Strive to do thy duty; then shalt
thou know what is in thee. Goethe.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and
every hand oils the wheels as they
run George Eliot.
Self-denial is the result Of calm,
deliberate, invincible attachment to
the highest good.-[spring.
Understanding the spirit Of our
institutions to aim at the elevation Of
men, I am opposed to whatever tends
to degrade them.-[E Lincoln.
Milton has carefully marked, in
his Satan, the intense selfsKness
which would rather reign in hell than
serve in heaven.-[Coleridge
What thou wilt thou shalt rather
enforce with thy smile than hew it
with thy sword.-[Shakspeare.
No man ever did a designed injury
to another, but at the same time he
did greater to himself Home.
Infamy is whose it is received. II
thou art mud wall, it will stick; if
marble, it will redound.-[Quarles.
That is the most perfect govern
ment under which wrong to the
humblest is an affront to all.-Seneca.
There is no free state where the
laws do not rule supreme; for the
law ought to be above all. Aristotle.
The arrows of sarcasm are barbed
/ with contempt. It is the sneer in
the satire or ridicule that gals and
wounds.-[Gladden.
| Some men do as much begrude
others good name as they want one
themselves; and perhaps that is the
reason Of it Penn.
| Without the Bible, man would be
in the midst of a sandy desert, sur
rounded on all sides by dark hori-
zon.-[ Daniel Webster.
| Whenever nature leaves hole in
a persons mind, she generally plas-
ters it over with q thick coat OF self
conceit.-[L [Longfellow.
The road to ambition is too narrow
for friendship, too crooked for love,
too rugged for honesty and too dark
for science.-Rousseau.
Midas longed for gold. He got it.
so that whatever he touched became
gold, and he, with his long ears, was
little better for it. Carlyle.
Till thou hast conquered thyself
thou art a slave; for it is almost aa
well to be subjected to anothers ap-
petite as thine own.-[ Burton.
!, It is fine thing to ripen without
shriveling; to reach the calmness oi
age, yet keep the warm heart and
8 ready sympathy Of youth Boyd.
q knew wise man who had for q
q BY word. when he saw men hasten te
r conclusion, EStay little, that w
j. may come to the end sooner.-Bacon
q He fancies himself enlightened be
r cause he sees the deficiencies o
h others; he is ignorant, because he ha
r never reflected on his own.-Bulwer
IyI If you want to be miserable, thin
is about yourself, about what you want
ii about what you like, what respec
is people ought to pay you, and wha
IL people think Of you.- Kingsley.
It would be as difficult to take a
inventory Of the benefits the worl
. receives from the sunshine as
81 enumerate the blessings we deriv
u from the Christian Sabbath. Claus
at
Let us beware of losing our el
thusiasms. Let US ever glory
as something and strive to retain O,