The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-11-16
NUMBRR 40.
Sense and Sentiment.

What is resignation II Is put
ting God between ones self and
ones grief.
He travels safe and not unpleas-
antly who is guarded BY poverty
and guided by love.
/ Self-win is SO ardent and active
+ that it viii break a world TO pieces
to make a stool to sit on.
It is announced among the fall
fashions that long trains of admir-
ers are considered desirable.
When Charity walks into the low
est place ofwant. we see the beant-
iful purity Of her robes most dis
tinetly.
A contemporary suggest that there
be added to the faculty of some of
our American colleges a professor
ship of common sense.
Mutual admiration-As the sea-
son ofparties approaches, boys be-
gin to feel gallant, and 'galls"
buoyant.
Any career may be spiritual that
is not in itself base. BE you schol-
ar, merchant, marine, artist, states
man, artisan, you may be a saint.
A private sorrow may overcome
man, who could brave a hundred
battles, or bear acutest physical
pain without a murmer.
A wise man looks upon men as he
does on horses; all their caparisons
of style, wealth and place he consid,
ers but as harness.
When fame is regarded as the
end, and merit as only the means,
men are apt to dispense with the
latter, if the former can be had
without it.
a good way to improve ones life
Let him write the epitaph he
would like to have on his tombstone,
and then try to live up to it.
Let prudence always attend your
PLEASURES; it is the only way to en-
JOY the sweets of them and not fear
the consequences.
If happiness means absence Of
care and inexperience OF painful
emotion, the best securities of it are
hard heart and easy digestion.
They whose minds are least
grieved by calamities, and who best
meet them in action, are the greet
est both in public and private life.
Men are frequently like tea-the
real strength and goodness arc not
properly drawn out of them until
they have been for awhile in hot wa
ter.
1t is, said Sir Mathew Hale, as
great a dishonor as a man is capa-
bic of that for little money he is
hired to speak otherwise than he
thinks.
Brevity is in writing what chari-
ty is to all other virtues. Right
eousness without the one Is worth
nothing, nor authorship without the
other.
A man ought to carry himself in
the world as an orange-tree would If
it could walk up and down in the
garden, swinging perfume from ev-
cry little censer it holds up to the
air.
No one secs the wallet on his
back, though every one carries two
paeks-one before stuffed with the
faults Of his neighbors; the other
behind flied with his own.
The vine elings to the tree when
its trunk is sturdy with sap, and It's
branches are full ofleayes and nests,
and clings to it also when it is only
a jagged stump, riven and shatter-
ed by the lightning.
Gotten Aather used TO say there
was a gentleman mentioned in the
10Th chapter Of Acts to whom he
was more deeply indebted than al
most any. other person-and that
was the town clerk Of Ephesus,
whose counsel was to do nothing
rashly.
1t is not work that kills men; It
is worry. Work is healthy; you
can hardly put more on man than
he can bear Worry is therust up
on the blade. It is not the revolu-
tion that destroys the machinery,
but the friction. Fear secretes ac-
ids; but love and trust are sweet
juices.
Here is the best thing Josh Bill
Iings ever said: Most men con-
eede that il looks foolish 70 sec &
boy dragging a heavy sled up bill
for the fcetin' pleasure Of ridin'
down again. But it appears to me
hat the boy is a sage by the side Of
. young man who works hard all
le week and drinks up his wages
N Saturday night.
A young lady explained to 3
printer the other day the difference
,etween printing and Publishing,
nd at the conclusion Of her re-
aarks, by way Of illustration she
aid. lyon may print kiss On my
heak hnt uolI MI. not .n.lhii.h h