Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-06-01
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One cannot always be a hero, but
one may always be a man.
Small cheer and great welcome
make merry feast.
Familiarity with wrong diminish
es our adherence of it.
Longfellow says: A thought of
ten makes us hotter than fire.
A beautiful eye makes silence ell
oquent.
The opinion of a fool is of moro
value than the oath of hypoorite.
Judge not the rich by their
wealth, or the poor by their pow
erty.
Ambition is kind of whisky; the
more man drinks, the more he
covets.
Attention is a duty we owe to
others; cleanliness that which we
owe to ourselves.
Waste of wealth Is sometimes re-
trieved; waste of health, seldom;
but waste of time never.
Christians who serve God at
home have little difficulty in Wor-
shipping him when assembled.
Work is the weapon of honor,
and he who lacks the weapon will
never triumph.
: Little minds rejoice over the err
rors of men Of genius, as the owl re-
joices over an eclipse.
A prssentiment Of coming glad
ness is tho summit OF terrestrial fe-
hcity.
Flatterers only lift a man up-as
it is said the eagle docs the tortoise
to get something blythe fall.
Affections fall upon some as the
genial flowers upon earth's bosom,
to call forth fair flowers from seeds
long dormant.
Philosophical happiness is to
want little and enjoy much; vulgar
happiness is to want much and en-
joy little.
Patience is the art OF waiting;
time passes quickly with him who
hopes for better days and lives for
tho morrow.
Either the future or the past is
written in every face, and makes
us, IL not melancholy, at least mild
and gentle.
Good IL slow; It climbs. Evil is
swift; It descends. Why should we
marvel that it makes greater pro-
gresS in a short time.
If good people would make good
ness agreeable, and smile instead of
froWning in their virtue, how many
would be won to the good cause.
He only is advancing life whose
is getting softer, whose blood war
mer, whose brain quicker, whose
spirit is entering into living peace.
We gain nothing by associating
with such as ourselves. We encour-
age one another in mediocrity. l
am always longing to be with men
more excellent than myself.
To do readily what we ought to
do when we ought to do it, and as
we ought to do it, are the charac-
teristics of wise and happy minds.
The holy thoughts and memories
that cluster around the name of
mother can never be so we'll express
sed as in the calm utterances of the
name itself.
A good newspaper is not only the
representative of a community, but
it is q health officer, busy remedy
ing and removing evils and sugges-
ting improvements.
Filial gratitude is an amiable trait
wherever found; it should be cher
ished by every possible means, and
viii meet its appropriate reward.
Clarendon says: Anger is the
most potent passion that accompa-
MES the mind of man; it effects
nothing it goes about, and hurts the
man who is possessed by it more
than any other against whom it is
directed.
1t is easy in the world to live af-
ter the worlds opinion; it is easy
in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who, in the
midst of the crowd, keeps with per-
feet sweetness, the independence of
solitude.
The world is governed by three
things, wisdom, authority and APP
pearances. Wisdom for thoughtful
people, authority for rough people,
and appearances for the great mass
of superficial people, who Judge on
ly by external matters.
Love one human being purely and
warmly, and you will love all. The
heart in this heaven, like the wan
dering sun, sees nothing, from the
dew-drop to the ocean, but mirror
which it warns and fills.-Jean
Paul.
The man scarce lives who is not
more credulous than he ought to be;
the natural disposition of man in
clines him to believe; experience A.
lone teaches incredulity, and sell
dom teaches il Standardization
Smith.
Inever yet heard man or woman |
much abused that l was not inclin- |
ed to think the better of them, and |
to transfer my suspicious or dislike
to the person who appeared to take
delight in pointing out the defects
Of q fellow creature.