The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-09-21
Sense and Sentiment.


Buy the truth and sell it not for
its price is above that of rubies.
Words are the counters of wise
men, but the money Of fools.
Toll is a thousand times reward
ed hy the pleasure which it be
slows.
The more the fruit the lower the
branch on which it grows: pride
is ever the companion of empti-
ness.
That man must have seen little
of mankind, who is ignorant ofhu-
man misery.
To the education of the masses
must we look for the stability of
our institutions.
A covetous man is an enemy to
the poor, and is cursed both in this
and the coming world.
There is an authority in chris
tian consistency, which will be
more or less reverenced wherever
it is found.
The door between us and heaven
cannot be opened, if that between
rs and our fellow men is closed.
The gem cannot be polished
without friction. nor man perfected
without adversely.
Errors, like straws, upon the
surface flow; he who would search
for pearls must dive below
Many long for good to come to
them, but never think the present
the right time to seek it.
The man who denies that he is
ever mistaken disproves his own
denial by the act of making it.
If q man of science loves truth
then he viii not deny the author of
it.
Prefer loss to unjust gain for that
brings grief but once; this forever.
You may CLEAN knowledge by
reading, but you must separate the
chaff from the wheat by thinking.
We have no right to put the
earth in mourning for our own
trouble, but many of us do it new
ertheless,
As daylight can be seen through
very small holes, so little things
will illustrate a PERSONS character.
Argument in conversation is gen
orally the worst kind of conversa-
tion. and in books the worst kind
of reading.
There are but two future verbs
which man may appropriate conf
IDENTIFY and without pride-''I shall
suffer-" and 81 shall die"
A conclusive argument against
suicide is, that it is the height Of
impoliteness to go anywhere until
you are sent for.
The mind that is much elevated
and insolent with prosperity, and
cast down by adversely, is general
ly abjcct and base.
Be noble, and the nobleness that
lives in other men, sleeping but
never dead, viii rise in majesty to
meet your own.
There would be no evil speakers
if there We're no evil hearers. 1t is
in scandal as in robbery-the re-
ceiver is as bad as the thief
Goodness and absence Of heat and
haste indicate fine qualities. A
gentleman makes no noise; q lady
is serene.
The happiness OF the human
race in this world does not consist
in our being devoid of passions,
but in our learning to control them.
Man must have occupation or be
miserable. Toll is the price of
sleep and appetite-of health and
enjoyment.
Constant and minute attention to
the wants and conveniences of 9TH
ers, even in little things, is the adj
vance guard Of more imposing vir-
tues.
We are happier with the sterility
which we can overcome by indus
try than we could have been with
spontaneous plenty and unbounded
ed profusion.
The enjoyments Of honest indus
try are peculiar. No wealth can
! purchase them; no Incidence can
taste them. They flow only from
the exertions which they repay.
Morality without religion is only
a dead reckoning-6n endeavoring
to find our place on cloudy sea
by measuring the distance We have
run without any observation Of the
heavenly bodies.
One watch set right will do to
! try many by; but, on the other
hand; one that goes wrong may be
the means Of misleading a whole
neighborhood. And the same may
be said Of example.
Without virtue there can be no
true happiness; but we want love
with virtue to give rs the good
/ which this world is capable Of be