Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-01-25
Varieties.

Varieties.
Nothing can be great which is not right
One motheris worth thousand friends.
A full mind must have talk, Or it will grow
dyspeptic.
The true lover knows the falsehood of the
Greek adage, ''that no one loves another bet
ter than HIMSELF
The noble mind, though forced to drain the
cup Of misery, can yield but generous thoughts
and noble deeds
There is no man, let him be as wise as he
may, who knows what circumstances are cal
culated to make him really happy.
Every one knows that there are many things
which he could not accomplish yet no ore
knows what he actually can do until he has
made the attempt.
| The motto with every one in the civil re-
lation ought to be ''principlss and men," be-
| cause this is according to order, it is uniting
| the soul and the body, the essence and the
| form together.
man should never put fence of words
| around his ideas, because many who would
| otherwise give him a fair hearing, lack resolu-
ton to climb over such rugged enclosure.
Depend upon it, simple pleasures are the
choicest. They do not injure the Imagination
or pail upon the senses. They are always new,
because their enjoyment gives no safety.
Solitary reading and study enable man to
gather great deal of information, of one sort
or other; but conversation enables him to make
the most judicious, happy, and profitable use
fit
The greatest objection to smart children is,
that when they commence having whiskers,
they leave off having brains Boys that arc
philosophers at six years of age, are generally
blockleads at twenty-one. By forcing chill
dren along, you get so much into their heads
that they bacome cracked in order to holdit.
Never nod to an acquaintance at an auction
We did so once, and when the sale closed, we
found four broken chairs, six cracked flower
potts. and knock-kneed bedstead knocked
down to US. What we had intended as mods to
friend, had been taken by the auctioneer as
bids for the kitchen furniture
No virtue is known to be worth ANYTHING
until it has been tested. The honesty that
knows no corruption; the fidelity that never
fails; the truthfulness that never equivocates
nor exaggerates; the self-sacrifce that asks
only what is duty, are all the well-ripened
fruits of frequent, and varied, and severe
trial.
1t is not unfrequently the case, that when we
have attained the thing we had intensely long
ed for, we find ourselves disappointed, or at
east much deceived in the amount of happi-
ness we had anticipated; and, on the other
hand, that the circumstance which we had
dreaded for years, when it arrives, has fire.
quently been found to have lost all the misery
we had in our ideas connected with it..
Judge Burnett being applied to by an old
farmer for his advice in a lawsuit, heard his case
with great patience, and then asked him if he
had ever put in lottery. "No SIR said the
farmer, Il hope | have too much prudence to
run such risks" ''Then take my advice, my
good friend, and suffer any inconvenience rath-
er than goto law, as the chances are more
against you there than in any lottery"
Prosperity, success, and the sunshine of the
world, while in one man, they would call forth
contentment, gratitude, and happiness, would
lead another into the indulgence of every sem
sua pleasure, to the destruction Of his bodily
health and the subversion of all the nobler
powers of his mind; and in third, they would
pies and feelings of an intoxicated spirit
Enough of this takes place in the world to
show us, that We're not our circumstances and
condition in life restrained by an over-ruling
providence, There would not be the amount Of
happiness which mankind even at present en-
joy.
If thou wilt be cured of thy ignorance, con-
fess it
The world is only rigid for petty and COM
mon faults; rare audacity astonishes it; splen-
did fortune disarms it.
Confidence may not be reciprocal, but kind
ness may be.
II you know how to spend less than you get,
you have the philosophers stone.
There are two classes Of people that can af-
ford to be modest; those who possess vast
amount of knowledge, and those who have but
little.
AN UEGuARDED SPEEcH.-Henry Carey,
cousin to Queen Elizabeth, after having en-
joyed her majesty,s favor for several years, lost
it in the following manner AS he was walk
ing in the garden of the palace under the
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