The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-24
Clippings.

An aimiess man IS likely TO remain
nameless man.
The world never admits writer is in
spired till he has expired.
Those who pray always are necessary
10 those who never pray.
The best thinkers are those who are
not only thinkers but actors.
Alcohol destroys live man, but pre-
serves a dead one
Advice is the only sort of vice that
some people don't follow.
Lawyers are the ydliures that hover
over perishing fortunes.
Opposites frequently 90 together; chills
and feyers are generally associated.
First get an absolute conquest over
myself and then thou wilt easily govern
thy wife.
Fortunes wings are made of times
feathers which stay not while one may
measure them.
In large assemblies Of men there is
more feeling and less thought than in
small ones.
We have generally a much stronger
curiosity to know what is said than 10
know what is true.
Wives should know that tears, a. a
means Of influence, are TO be reserved for
great occasions.
1t is characteristic Of truth, never TO
exaggerate What need has she ofexag-
geraiion?
Every thing ia art is pure, noble and
good Our weakness is TO blame II her
gifts turn TO poison.
Love sows, even at parting the seeds Of
return Regrets for the departed are types
! Of the Joy Of coming reunion.
Vehemence creates dislikes, excessive
mildness contempt; be neither so severe
as to be hated nor so tame as TO be in
suited.
Many, who profess TO think that, in
giving to the poor, they lend to the Lord,
haggle with Him about The amount Of the
loan.
il pair Of speciacles were to address
their wearer, the name of what great &C.
clesiast would they quote? Eu-se bi-us.
Many poor, sore eyed student would
grow faster Intellectually and physically
it, instead of sitting up so late, he hon
cstly slumbered FOOLS allowance.
"What stingy fellows they must be in
New York" exclaimed q country girl.
"Our Sallie says she never could get a
buss without paying five cents for it.
Taylor, the old waterproof, wrote,
"nettles will die if you SOW hemp seed
among them. Perhaps, then by sowing
hemp seed, we may kill the nettles OF
rebellion let's SOW hemp
To enjoy the society of friend we
should limit our intercourse with him
We have pushed our companions too far
when we feel ourselves sharing each
others dullnCss.
Some one says, ait is well that we arr
not all perfect; for il we were, we should
be so intolerably proud of it, that there
would be no getting along with us
The jackson Mississippian calls Tn,
soil Of the South Sacred When Mosel
stood upon holy ground, he was com
handed TO put of his shoes. The rebe
soldiers needn't be required to put of
theirs for they have got none on,
A man might frame and let loose sta
to roll in its orbit, and yet not have don
so memorable \ thing before God rs h
who let go golden orbed thought 10 rol
through the generations Of time.
ado l believe in second love? Humph
If a man buys pound of sugar, isn't
sweet, and when ii is gone, don't he wan
r another pound, isn't that sweet too
Troth, Murphy. believe in sccon,
love-
jerks is anxious to declare that al
though there may be 4 sham rock i
the EARNS" of Ireland, there is nothn
a but the real grit in the arms Of he
( brave sons who fight under our gloriou
banner.
a Don't dispute against facts well estab
a lshed merely because there is somewha
unaccountable in them. That the worl
5 should be created of nothing is TO us in
conceivable! but not, therefore, to b
o doubted.