Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-12-09
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orrowed garments seldom fit

Borrowed garments seldom fit.
Work is healthy; YOU can hardly
put more on man than he can bear.
Fear secretes acids, but love and
trust are sweet juices.
The way of the transgressor is
hard.
Pleasing Jesus is the child's east
est rule of right.
Work isno dishonor, and laziness
is a reproach to any one.
There is no true manhood in the
world without independence.
lie who buys too many superfiui-
ties may be obliged to sell his neces-
karics.
Men often blush to hear what they
are not ashamed to do.
Towers are measured by their
shadows, and great men by their ca
1umniators.
A man that boards his riches and
enjoys them not, is like an Ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
The wicked may flourish for a
while, and the honest may be brop
low, but wait until the end.
II is not work that kills men; it is
worry. A more certain truth was
never uttered.
Worry is the rust on the blade
II is not the revolution that destroys
the machinery, but the friction.
lie who restrains himself from ev-
cry luxury may help others i'll neces-
sity.
Work is the weapon of honor, and
he who lacks the weapons will new
or triumph.
Heaven has no truer counterpart
on earth than q peaceful, quiet and
contentcd family.
What is resignation? 1t is putting
God between ones self and ones
griefs.
He travels safe and not unpleas-
antiy who is guarded by poverty and
guided by love.
He is most serious who best brings
an earnest, healthy, rejoicing nature
to the performance of his duty.
No person ever got stung by hor-
nets who kept away from where
they were. II is lust so with bad
habits.
When Charity walks into the
lowest place of want, we see the
beautiful purity of her robes most
distinctly.
Any career may be spiritual that
is not in itself base. BE you scholar,
merchant, marine, artist, statesman,
artisan, you may be saint.
Success rides on every hour
grapie il and you may win; but
without grapple, it will never go
with you.
The man who knows the world
will never be bashful, and that man
who knows himself will never be
impudent.
4 private sorrow may overcome
a man, who could brave a hundred
battles, or bear acutest physical pain
without a murmer.
A wise man looks upon man as he
does on horses; all their caparisons
of style, wealth and place he consid-
ers but rs harness.
When fame is regarded as the end,
aud merit only as the means, men
are apt TO dispense with the latter,
If the former can be had without it.
II man would make his life sub
lime let Kim write the epitaph he
would like TO have upon his tomb
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II men were always prudent and
circumspect in their pleasures they
might enjoy the sweets of them
without fear of consequences.
They whose minds are least griev-
ed by calamities, and who best meet
them in action, are the greatest,
both in public and private life.
Brevity in writing is what charity
is to all other virtues. Righteous
ness without charity is worth moth
ing, nor authorship without brevity.
Labor is the law of the world, and
he who lives by other means is of
less value 10 the world than the
buzzing, busy insects.
f'The horse that frets is the horse
that sweats," is an old saying of
horsemen, and is just as true of men
as horses.
1t is good to have good wages, but
half pay is better than nothing. and |
working for nothing is better than
idleness and vice.
The man who helps others, from a 1
sincere desire to benefit them and |
make them better, may look with |
confidence to God to help him.
Difficulties are placed in the way |
of Christians that they may over |
come them, and pass through con-
flicts to victories, and through vic |
tories to triumphs.
Pride goes before destruction; but
honor and nobleneSs, and indepen-
dence of soul, are approved of God,
and are profitable to man.
The reader of these ''pearls," ms
well as the gather together" of
them, is earnestly exhorted to be
diligent to obtain the ''pearl of great
price,"
1t was a saving of Socrates that
every man had need of a faithful
friend and bitter enemy-the one
TO advise, and the othec to show
him his faults.
Men are most beautifully serious
when truthful smiles are PLAYING on
their lips, and when their whole
are lighted up with
benignant joy.
The man whose individuality is
swallowed up by fashion, folly, or
society, has lost that which he NAV
never regain, and without which his