Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-03-29
Gems of Thought.

Graves are but the prints Of the footsteps Of
the angel Of eternal life.
There is no grief without some beneticcnt
provision to soften its intcnsencss
There is but breath of air and beat Of
the heart betwiXt this world and the next
Never court the favor of the rich, by tlattcr-
! ing either their vanity or their vices.
| Frequently review Your conduct and note
your feelings.
When you think how good your parents are
! just think how much better must that being be
who made them.
Speak with calmness and deberaion on ali
| occasions, especially in circumstances whc!,
tend to irritate.
Some connoisscurs would give a hundred
pounds for the painted head of beggar, who
would threaten the living mendicant with the
stocks.
There is ouy one objection to people who
| "mean WELL" and that is, that they can never
spare time to carry out their meaning.
Never resent a supposed injury, till you
know the views and motives ofthe author Of it;
nor on any occasion rctaliate.
The seeds of love can never grow but under
the warm and genial influence Of kind feelings
and attectionate manners.
Always take the part of an absent friend
who is censured in company, SO far as truth
and propriety will allow.
Usefulness is confined to no station, and it
is astonishing how much good may be done,
and what may be effected by limited means,
united with beneyolence of heart and activity
of mind.
The happiness of our lives depends much on
the active performance of the duties of our
station nor have we any right to infer, that, if
they arc not properly discharged, they would
be better if we moved in more exalted
sphere.
Music serves to make home pleasant, by
engaging many of it's inmates in a delightful
recreation, and thus dispelling the sourness
and gloom which frequently arise from petty
disputes, from mortified vanity, from discomfort
and envy.
The apparent motives of the earth is from
the rising to the setting sun, when her real mo-
tion is from the setting sun towards the rising.
So is it with man, he fancies himself journey
ing from life to death, while in fact he is ira
Yelling from death unto life.
Avarice, the accumulation of wealth for its
own sake, brings with tits own punishment
in the drying up of every fount of human af-
fection within us, in the disruption of every
tie with which the charities of life are bound,
and in the conversion of the heart into sub
stance "harder than the neither millstonc."
God and love are everywhere in light, in
colours, in flowers, in the beauty of man, in the
happiness of animals, in the human mind in
the endless spheres, as the sun shines on all,
alike yet differently, and is majestic on the
ocean, sparkling in a dewdrop, ruddy on the
ripe fruit, silver on the stream, many-coloured
in the rainbow, and pale and trcmuous in the
moon.
If there be situation wherein woman may
be deemed to appropriate angelic attributes, it
is when she ministers, as only woman can, to
the wants and the weakness of the Invalid
Whose hand like hers can smooth his pillow!
Whose voice 50 etfectually silences the que 9
ruleusness Of his temper, or sothes the an,
guish Of lis disease? Protfered by her, the
Wand hath an added zest, and even the nause
GUS medicament is divested of it's loathsome-
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