Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-21
Orient Pearls at Random Strung

Inc rum OF most men oates from
some vacant, idle hour.
Occupation is the armor OF the
soul.
The essence of the beautiful is
unity in variety.
To give pain is tyranny To make
happy the true empire of goodness.
IL is far better to be fit for the fu-
turc than TO be young again.
Manners are but the happy way
OF doing things.
We may think foolish thoughts,
but should never express them.
Nothing is more worthy of a
great and brave man than clemency.
The power Of honesty is SO great
that we love it even in an enemy.
There is no exec lence in beauty
without some strangeness in the
proportion.
Every good picture is the best OF
sermons and lectures. The sense in
forms the soul.
Beauty can afford to laugh at dis
tinctions; it is itself the greatest dis
tinction.
Lovely sweetness is the nOblest
power of woman; and it is far better
TO prevail by parley than by battle.
True beauty makes its way more
directly to the soul than any earthly
thing.
Tuckcrman says; Thc.soul by an
instinct, stronger than reason, ever
associates beauty with truth.
a lazy boy makes lazy man, just
as sure as a crooked sapplinS makes
a crooked tree.
OF all life's blessings, none are
cheaper or more easily dispensed
than smiles
y smile, accompanied by kind
word, has been known to reclaim u
puug uutca-i, and change the " hole
career of human lie.
Irl ~ cover be- too chary in he
slowing our smiles, uut scatter
iltru broadcast rs wc 20; Tor life L.
too short go be lrowned away.
There w4- never nj eht without day.
or .n ryeniu- without morning;
And itc darkest hour, 80 the pruVtrh gnts
J. The hour before The dawUiug.
Believe nothing against another
hut upon authority, nor repeat " hat
may hurt another, unless il be a
greater hurt to others to conceal it.
There is an efficacy in calmness of
which we are unaware-theel element
of serenity; one which all men
need.
What arc the relations in which
man stands to God, and what are the
duties that arise out of those rela-
tons?
Would man be struck with admi-
ration and astonishment, at behold
ing n superior created intelligence
tossing mountain into the sea?
God is holy-other holy beings
there are; but their holiness is de-
rived and dependent.
There would be no evil speakers
il there were no evil hearers. 1t is
in scandal as in rObbery-the re-
ceiver is as bad as the thief.
Many run about after happiness,
like an absent minded man hunting
for his hat while it is on his head or
in his hand.
There is three fold death in the
slandercrs tongue; it kills him who
SANDERS, him who is slandered, and
him who receives the SANDER.
There is a satirical poem in which
the devils is represented as fishing
for men, and fitting his bait to the
taste and business of his prey; but
the idler, he said, gave him no trou-
bic, as he bit the naked hook.
IL is necessary sometimes, to re-
frain from questioning our friends,
that we may not draw from them
what we ought not to know, and es-
pecially that we may not tempt them
TO deceive us.
If you would relish your food, Ia
Dor for it; if you would enjoy your
clothes, pay for them before you
wear them; if you would sleep
soundly, take n clear conscience to
bed with you.
GOeth says: The useful encour-
ayes llStli lOE inc luulIlJuue pro-
duce it, and no one can dispense
with it; the beautiful must be en-
Outraged; for few can set it forth,
and many need it.
In this life we must either obey
our vicious inclinatlons or resist
them; il we obey them we shall
have sin and sorrow; if we resist
them we shall have pain and labor,
therefore we cannot be free from
trouble in this life.
An Italian Bishop, who had en-
dured much persecution with a
calm. unruflled temper, was asked
how he attained such mastery over
himself. by making right use of
my eyes" said he. Il first look up
to heaven as the place wither l am
going to live forever. | next look
down upon the earth, and consider
how small space in it will soon be
all that l can occupy or want. | then
look around me, and think how
many are far more wretched than
am.n