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SPICE PARAGRAPHS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 24.

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SPICE PARAGRAPHS.

Zealously strive to do good for the sake of good.
Traits of character which you seek to conceal, you had better seek to reform.
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod, as upon our daily bread.—Dr. Owen.
It is a noble species of revenge to have the power of a severe retaliation, and not to exercise it.
Flowers are the alphabets of angels, wherewith they write on hills and plains mysterious truths.
The purest joy that we can experience in one we love, is to see that person a source of happiness to others.
Men want restraining as well as propelling power. The good ship is provided with anchors as well as sails.
Many who have escaped from the rocks of gross sin, have been cast away on the sands of self-righteousness.—Dyer.
Guests should be neither loquacious nor silent; because eloquence is for the forum, and silence for the bed-chamber.
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water, they always destroy each other, according to which predominates.
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
Men's faults will always be better known than their virtues, because their defects will find more persons capable of forming a judgment of them than their noble qualities can find persons fit to comprehend and appreciate them.
Leave company when you find you lose by it, and see that you cannot improve it: 'Go not in the way of evil men.'