The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-06-18
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
pitly Paragraphs of Various Kinds
Cleaned For Gold Leaf Readers.

Be sure you are right, then be sure
You ire sure.
Anger begins i'll folly and ends i'll
repentance.
IT is scandals Shiny story that
makes old Satan smile.
Hardness OF heart is not IL sign OF
strength OF character.
The best way to lose your own
troubles is to lift anOthcr's.
Even love match may flicker out
before the winds of adversely.
Deserve rather than desire should
BE- the measure OF expectation.
The successful money maker is
generally IL dismal failure as Il spend
or.
Yesterday is il scholar i'll expert
ence and today should profit by its
teachings.
The number OF people engaged i'll
crushing truth to earth is surprising-
ly large.
Tears bring forth the richness OF
our natures rs the rain sweetens the
smelling briAr.
Often the man who doesn't look
like Il fool easily dcceivcs people by
acting like one.
The strongest pillar i'll religion is
charity, and that temple would tot
ter i'll ruins thOut it.
Don't watch the faults of your
neighbor, but do right yourself and
let him watch you.
There would be heaven in every
heart if you would only stifle the sell
ishness in your own soul.
Sorrow is the sOmber shadow that
ever hOvers about the soul, seeking
to stain its sweetness
1t is not what the education does
with the man but what the man does
with the education that counts.
Sarcasm is the thorn which is left
when the frosts of i'll nature have
Withercd all of the souls sweet flow
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1t is to be observed that the people
who offer bargains get rich faster
than the people who take advantage
of the same.
No man was ever SO completely
skilled i'll the conduct of life, us not
to receive new information from age
and experience.
In this earth-life Death aloneis alb
solutcly impartial He cannot be
bribed by the penny of the pauper or
the pound sterling OF the prince.
TO be cheerful when the world is
going well with YOU is no great viz
tue. The thing is to be cheerful under
disadvantageOus circumstances.
Two hearts may beat as one. but
two mouths do not eat as one" de-
clares an Arkansas editor whose
growing family has set him reflect
ing.
Every man has in heart an ideal of
bcauty-an ideal more perfect than
was ever conceived by sculptor's
brain, more peerless than was ever
painted by artist s brush.
The great truth that needs to be
taught to every child, impressed
upon every youth, and established
in every mind is. that the basis of all
happiness is loyalty to truth and
right.
Temperance puts wood on the fire,
meal i'll the barrel, -four in the tub,
money i'll the purse, credit in the
country, contentment in the home,
clothes on the back. and vigor in the
body.
Hope is the radiant star in the fir
mament of life. and throughout the
darkest night of adversely it sends
down Il silvery stream of light to
cheer us through the gloom, and bid
Us upward look.
Hate plants the sharpest thorns
that can be found in the path of
human existence. For when we learn
to despise a fellow being then we
learn what a road of wretchedness
we have started out to travel.
The only real and Christian way
OF purity is to live III the open world
and not be of it, and keep the soul
unspOtted from it. There are no
fires that will melt out drossy and
corrupt particles like Gods refining.
fires of duty and trial, living as He
sends us to live, in the open field of
the worlds sins and sorrows. its
plausibilities and lies, its persecu-
tiOns, animOsities and fears, its eager
Inlip-btS onl hittnr