The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-05-18
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Gluttony kills more than the
sword.
Goodness always enuehes its pos-
sessor
Good manners arc sure to pro-
cure respect
Few vices win often obscure ma
ny virtues.
Good actions are the most &C
ceptable sacrifices.
Make not a fool Of thyself to
make others merry.
Without the rich heart, wealth Is
but an ugly beggar.
Vanity is a strong drink that
makes all the virtues stagger
Fine gold fears not the fire. nor
solid stone the water.
He who spends before lie thrives
viii beg before he thinks.
Let your promises be sincere and
such as you can carry out.
Real glory springs from the 81
lent conquest of ourselves.
One who drinks at the fountain
Of "living water can never die.
Guilt is ever suspicious and always
in fear.
Solitude is the home OF the
strong; silence their prayer.
There is no fault in poverty. but
the minds that think so are faulty
Gold is the fools curtain, which
hides all his defects from the world.
Only what We have wrought into
our character during life can we
take away with us.
Truths supreme revelation comes
in sorrow to individuals and in war
to nations.
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts. To believe in the heroic
makes heroes.
There is nothing that binds heart
to heart SO quickly and so safely as
to trust and be trusted.
Harsh words are hailstones which
if melted would fertilize the tender
plants they batter down.
Let us not dote upon anything
here below, for heaven hath inscrib-
ed vanity upon it.
1t is the pale passions that are the
iercest; it is the violence the chill
that gives the measure of the fever
He that has never known sdver-
sity is but half acquainted with
others or himself
a good hearted woman in the ro-
sy beauty Of her JOY is the loveliest
object in the world.
Nothing so arduous can be pro
posed that it win not be easy to you
ifyour mind be applied to it.
A credulous person is like a pitch
er borne by the ears, empty Of itself
but apt to hold whatever is put in
to it.
There is many an unfortunate
one whose heart, ike sunbeam'
always appears loveliest in its
breakinp asunder.
The wound Of conscience is not q
scar; time cools it not with his
wing, but merely keeps it open
with his scythe.
The whole sum Of human virtue
may be reduced to speaking the
truth always, and doing good to
others.
Bad habits are the thistles Of the
heart and every indulgence in them
is a seed from which win spring
new crop Of weeds.
The perfection of wisdom and
the end of true philosophy, is to
proportion our wants to our posses
sions, and our ambitions to our ca.
pacities.
It is a law of Cod that he who is
willing to dogood to others shall be
happy and grow beautiful BY the
process. Beauty casts her mantle
on the industrious and good.
There is one single fact which one
may apply to all the wit and argu-
ment of infdelity namely, that no
man on his death-bed ever repeuted
being a Christian.
To be happy, the passions must
be cheerful and gay, not gloomy
and melancholy. A propensity to
hope and Joy is real riches; one 70
fear and sorrow, real poverty.
The moment is fastening when
the decree OF heaven shall be utter
ed, and Providenceshall pronounce
upon every glory Of the earth, "Its
time shall be no longer
Pride, like the magnet, constantly
points to one objeet-self; but mr.
like the magnet, it has no attractive
pole, bat ct ali points repels. Il
even seats up gratitude" :"
As there is a misery in want, 50
there is danger in excess. Iwould
therefore desire neither more nor
less than enough. I may as well
suffer Of surfeit as Of hunger.
The height and depth ofthe whole
world have their center in Thee, o
my Godl Ido not know Thee What
Thou art; but I know that Thou art
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