The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-04-28

the first evil this inability to keep silence
produces is an inability to listen.
Epictetus: Let no man think he is loved
by any man when he loves no man.
Mencius: He whose goodness part OF
himself, is what is called real man.
Montesquieu: Political liberty is to be
found only in moderate governments.
Cicero: Subtlety is only deceitful
manner of applying reason to do mischief.
Ouida: cruel story runs on wheels,
and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Epictetus: Fortify yourself with con-
tentment, for this is an impregnable
fortress.
Carlyle: Speech that leads not to &C.
ton, still more that binders it, is a nuisance
on the earth.
Goodwin: He that revels in we'll chosen
library, has innumerable dishes, and all of
admirable flavor.
Plutarch: Nor is drunkenness censured
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and endless talk.
Daniel Webster: Every unpublished MUIR
der takes away something from the security
of every mans life.
Webster: Confidence is a thing not to
be produced by compulsion. Men cannot
be forced into trust.
Richter: Humanity is never so beauti-
full as when praying for forgiveness, or
else forgiving another.
Lew Wallace: Riches take wings, COM
forts vanish, hope withers away, but love
stays with US. Love is God.
George Eliot: More helpful than all
wisdom is one draught of simple human
pity that will not forsake US.
Cumberland: Of all bad things by
which mankind are curst, their own bad
tempers surely are the worst.
Alcott: One must have lived greatly
whose record would bear the full light of
day from beginning to it's close.
George Eliot: I've never any pity for
conceited people, because l think they
carry their comfort about with them.
George Dawson: Half the gossip OF
society would perish if the books that are
truly worth reading were but read.
Dickens: would rather have the af-
fectionate regard of my fellowmee than
would have heaps and mines of gold.
Hillard: The natural instincts of gen.
erous heart shrink from an inveterate hater
as child shrinks from the snake in his path.
Cicero: True glory takes root, and even
spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers,
fall to the ground; nor can any counter
felt last long.
Addison: There is no greater sign of
general decay of virtue in a nation, than q
want of zeal in it's inhabitants for the good
of their country.
Plutarch: Talkativeness has another
plague attached to it, even curiosity; for
praters wish to hear much that they may
have much to say.
La Rochefoucauld: Although men flat
ter themselves with their great actions,
they are not so often the result of great
design as of chance.
Humboldt: Where there is love of SOL
itude, then the mind has already assumed
an elevated character, and it becomes still
more so when INDUCED in.
Washington: The aggregate happiness
of society, which is best promoted by the
practice Of virtuous policy, is, or ought
to be, the end of all government.
Alcott: A government for protecting
the coaser interests of the body, business
and bread only, is but carcass, and soon
falls, by its own corruption to decay.
Ruskin: There is nothing SO great or so
goodly in creation, but that it is mean
symbol OF the Gospel of Christ, and of the
things he has prepared for them that love
him.
Hayden: If men would only take the
chances of doing right because it is right,
instead Of the immediate certainty Of the
advantage of doing wrong, how much
happier would their lives be.