Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-05-11
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Love like the up-springing fire, its
native sphere is above.
Who depends upon another's Ia
BILE often dimes late.
He conquers grief who makes a
firm resolve to do so.
Our own heart, and not other peo-
pies opinions, forms our true honor.
Tears hinder sorrow from becom-
ing despair, and laughter is one OF
the privileges of reason.
Fortune is as brittle as glass; W hen
she shines most she is often most
unexpectedly broken.
Fear maketh us watchful and cir
cumspect; love renders usactiVo and
rcsolute.
God is being of intimate perfec-
tor and Governor, our Redeemer
and eur Judge.
The best requisites of man are pos
sessesed by him, who seduously at
tends, pointed asks, calmly speaks,
and coolly answers.
Sense shines with a double luster
when it is set in humanity. An able
yet humble man is jewel worth a
kingdom.
The secret of happiness is conceal
ed in appreciative content. If you
cannot have what you want, be con-
tent with what YOU have.
Sympathy is balm to the tortur-
cd heart-it is a jewel Seyond COM
parison-a flower dropped from
heaven.
The first human sin was improp-
CT indulgence in eating, and it has
been one of the chief sins ever
since.
The resolute despair of the van
quished sometimes brings about a
relief not to be effected by any 9TH
er means.
The exercise and use of brilliant
talents, are frequently lost to the
world through the want of protec-
tion and cultivation.
Let Done count the number of
his friends till they have been bolt
ed in the seive of his own adversely,
for there is much bran in prosper
GUS friendship.
Southey says: We make the great
CIR part of the evil circumstances in
which we are placed; and then we
fit ourselves for those circumstan-
ces by process of degradation.
Solomon, in the Proverbs, thus
describes a good wife: she looketh
well to the ways of tho household,
and eateth not of the bread of idle
ness.
Lord Bacon wisely says: "a crowd
is not company, and faces are but a
gallery of pictures, aud talk but a
tinkling cymbal, where there is no
love-"
A few minutes devotion at night
will not clear the conscience of a
foul trick done during the day, nor
will going to church on Sunday
atone for the wilfuL sins of week.
Nature is the only workman to
whom no material is worthless; the
only chemist in whose labratory
there is no waste products, and the
only artist whose compositions are
infinitely varied, and whose fertili-
ty of invention is inexhaustible.
Pity the poor, the shabby, the ug-
ly, and the suffering, and do not
sheer at them. All ways of life are
weary enough, and mercy is like the
gentle rain from heaven-and very
sweet to a tired soul.
Youth is the time in which mod
esty and enterprise ought chiefly TO
be found, modesty suits well with
inexperience, and enterprise with
health and vigor and an extensive
prospect of life.
1t is great and good thing to
cover the blemishes and excuse the
failings of friend; to draw a cur
tain before his stains, and to dis
play his projections; to bury his
weaknesses in silence, but to pro-
claim his virtues from the house
top.
When we are in the. company of
sensible men we ought to be eau
tious of talking too much, lest we
lose their good opinion or our inn
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we know, but what they have to
say we know not.
God alone can judge Of the value
of conversions. He alone can tell
how wide are the steps which the
soul has to take before it can ap-
proach community with him. to
the dwelling of the perfect, to the
friendship of the highest natures.
The merits which gives a nation
the best claim to greatness are, per-
sonal dignity, domestic virtue, truth
in the intercourse of society, and re-
spect for justice.
The heart is ready enough at
feigning excuses for all it does or
imagines of wrong; but ask it to
give a reason for any of its beauti-
ful and divine emotions, and it can
only look upward and be dumb.
When we are in the right we can
never reason, but only assert.
by friendship you mean the great
est love, the greatest usefulness. and
the most open communication. and
the modest sufIerings, and the Sc
verest truth, and the heartiest conn
sci and the greatest uuicn Of minds.
of which brave men aud women are
capable.
Some men move through life as a
band of music moves down the
streets. finging out pleasure on
every side through the ar TO every
one. Some men fill the air with
their strength aud sweetness, as the
orchards in October days fill the
air with ripe fruit, Som, women
cling TO their own houses like the
hOneysuckle over the doc vet like !
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