Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-12
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.Persevere against all discourage
ments and keep your temper.
Employ your leisure in study, anC
always have some work in hand.
Never be in too much of hurry
TO do thing well.
Economic your time by rising
early
Manner is something to every
body, and everything to some.
BE guarded in discourse, atten
tive and S.ewtU speak.
Never acquiesce in immoral OF
perniciOus opinions.
1t is possible to be doing some
thing and yet be very idle.
Be virtuous, and you will be
happy.
Think nothing in your conduct
lnimportant or indifferent.
Let another's passion be a lecture
TO thy reason.
Sensible men show their sense by
saying much in few words.
One of the greatest virtues fol
every day is cheerfulness.
These poor restless human hearts
how they need keeping.
Our desires, and loves and hates
how they run us wild at times.
Our work is to do all we can by
the best employment of our best
powers now.
Practice strict temperance, and il
your transactions remember the fl
nal account.
Good words are. like dew-drops
they fall silently; but who can tell
their good eflect?,
There are wounds for which the
world has no balm; and there are
wants which no success can satisfy.
Be punctual and methodical in all
business, and on no account pro-
crastinate.
Preserve everywhere your self
possession, and let no gabblcr talk
YOU out of your convictions.
Under all circumstances maintain
dignity, but yield to no appearance
of pride.
To people who have no right ia
ask, be slow to assign any reasons
for your conduct.
Rather set than follow examples
but let what you do be worthy to be
followed.
Make it a rule never to utter any
unnecessary complaint or murmurs,
but in patience to possess your souls.
lie who has never smile, nor a
tear, nor an impulse OF kindness to-
wards Others, is unfit to live.
No indulgence in the passions de-
stroys the spiritual nature so much
as respectable selfishness.
Waste of wealth is sometimes re-
trieved; waste of health seldom;
but waste of time never.
We are always able to propose
more than we have power to &C
complish.
Courage, the commonest .Of the
virtues, obtains more applause than
discretion, the rarest of them.
The present use of the spiritual
world To us is the influence it has
upon our modes of existence in the
natural world.
The Arabic proverb has it that
life is composed of two parts; that
which is past, a dream; and that
which is To come, wish.
Every ones life lies within the
present; for the past is spent and
done with, and the future is uncer-
tain.
The pleasantest things in the
world are pleasant thoughts, and
the greatest art is to have as many
as possible of them.
Like beautiful flower in full
color but without scent, are the fine
and friendless words of him who
does not accordingly.
Politeness is the outward garment
of good will; but many are the nut
shells in which, if you crack them,
nothing like a kernel is to be found.
There is dew in one flower and
not in another, because it opens its
cup and takes il, while the other
closes its cup, and the drop runs off.
God rains goodness and mercy as
wide as the dew, and If we lack
them it is because we will not open
our hearts to receive them.
The man who has never know
the luxury of doing a kindness will
probably never know the bliss Of
heaven.
Christ is watching from heaven
those III whom His heart is, and in
whom HIS blood is. He is watch
ing paternally, and not merely as a
spectator would watch in the excite
mcnt of contest.
As in the silence of the night the
ear catches the least sound, so in the
solitude of reflection the mind de-
tects soft and delicate strains of
thought unheard of in the hustle OF
the crowd.
Patience is virtue which one Of
ten has great occasion to use, and
he who expects to get along COM
fiortably through the world would
do we'll to lay in an early and large
stock.
Nothing gives such elevation OF
character, and such power, and such
....,,-esfnpcvr az liuinOr ac a raoI conaa
of the presence OF the spiritual
world.
When You are in trouble, whatev-
er that trouble may have arisen
from sin, or from
or from affection, or
from remOrsc, or from bereavement
the command is, "Look to Jesus,
the author and finisher of your
faith"
Nature is the only workman to
whom no material is worthless,
the only chemist in whose labOra-
tory there are no waste products,
aud the only artist whose compo-
sitions arc varied, and whose fertil-
ity of invention is absolutely mex
haustiblc.
IT'S not in the most exact aud
rigid discipline nor in outward
forms, ceremonies and appliances
though these are good aud useful as
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES success is
but rather in the forcible
,ltterances of eternal truth, and in
the inspirations of burning, i'm
passiOned eloquence of heart-love.
God is never in a hurry. Itcomes
of our unbelief in Him that we are
50 ant to be in a hurry. He that
believeth should not make haste. If
\, look at the history of the mate
rial world, or the intellectual world,
M The social world, nothing is clear
tr than that God never was in hur-
~. and that lie can afford to wait.