Gems Of Thought

All deception In the course of Hfe i3, indeed, nothtng else but a lie reduced to practlce and falsehood passing from words to things. - South. Patrlotism is a blind and irrational impulse unless it is founded on a knowledge of the blesslngs we are called to secure and the privileges we propose to defend.- Robert Hall. Grand, swelling sentiments of liberty [ am sure I do not despise. They warm the heart, they enlarge and llberalize our minds; they anímate our courage In a time of conflict. - Burke. He who endeavors to know hls duty, and practices what he knows, has the squity of God to stand as a mighty wall )r rampart between him and damnatlon Eor any infirmities. - South. If we look lnto comraunltles and dlvlslons of men, we observe that the discreet man, not the wltty, nor the learned, nor the brave, guldes the coni'ersation, and gives measure to society. - Addison. There is the supreme and indissoluble :onsanguinity and society between men in general; of which the heathen poet, A-hom the apostle calis to witness, saith,