Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-03

Within is the fountain OF good,
and it will ever bubble up, if thou
wilt ever dig.
Go down the ladder when thou
narriest a wife; go up when thou
choosest a friend.
Nature stretcheth out her arms to
embrace man, only let his thoughts
be of equal greatness.
Let amusements I'LL up the chinks
of your existence, not the great spa
ces thereof.
Enlarge not thy destiny, saith the
oracle of old; endeavor not 10 do
more than is given thee to do.
Offer up not sincerity TO love-
No love can be genuine whose al tar
asks the sacrifice.
1t is more difficult and calls for
higher energies of soul TO live a
martyr than to die one.
No man ever did a designed iDiu-
ry to another without doing a grea-
ter TO himself.
The master of superstition is the
people, and in all superstitions wise
men follow fools.
Better than fame is still the wish
for fame, the constant trainings for
glorious strife.
Be always frank and irue; spare
every sort of affectation and dis
guise.
If The fear of the Lord is the be-
ginning, is not his love the perfect
ing of wisdom.
How sweet TO work all day for
God, and then lie down at night be-
meath his smile.
Nature has sometimes made fool;
but coxeomb is always of n mans
own making.
Juvenal says: One man receives
crucifixiou as the reward of his
viliainy; another as regal crown.
Determination aud energy max Q
possible things probable, aud prob
able things they make certain.
Beecher says: 1--WE let our bless
iugs grow moldy and then call them
curses"
Men. like peaches and pears, grow
sweet little while before they de-
cay.
Every real thought, ON every real
subject, knocks the wind out oi
somebody or other,
Landor SAYS: The religion oI
Christ is peace and good will, the
religion OF christendOm is war aud
ill-will.
Cecil save: II there j. amy person
Ia whom YOU feci dislike. Thai is ,hC
person OF whom YOU should never
think.
Silliman says: IT the whole world
should agree TO speak noihing but
the truth, what AN abridgnlcnt il
would make OF speech!
The heart of wise man should
resemble mirror, which reflects
every object without being sullied
10y any. -.
What an absurd Thug il is TO pass
over all the valuable parts OF man
and fix our Attentions on his inirnli
ties.
Good love however ill-pla, cd
is better for mans soul in the END
than il he loved III what deserves
TO be loved well.
There are few defects in our ma
iure so glaring as not "a be veiled
from observation by ppiiteness and
good Breeding.
Submission exertior
when practieable-these seem 10 bs
the weapons with which we mus
tight life's long battle,
Ia private places, among sordie
objects. an act of truth or herOisn
seems at once TO draw itself To IA,
SKY as its temple, the sun a. its era
die.
Nothing is impossible to reso
lutte will; there are ways which leaC
Ia everything, and ii we had suffi
cieHt viii we should always have
sufficient means.
When christians grow cold anC
neglectful of their own duties, the,
grow censOrious towards eacl
other.
All aloug the caves OF colo
church hang the sharp, piercing lei
cles of criticism and censOrioHs
ness.
The man who would shine in con
versation must possess origina
ideas ahd strong sympathies-be a
BILE both TO communicate and 10 lis
ten.
Spare that you may spend; fas
that YOU NAV feast; labor that Vol
may live; and run that you ma,
rest.
4 maxim is the exact aud nobl
expression of an important and in
disputable truth. Sound maxim
are the germs OF good; strongly i'm
y printed in the memory, they nour
ish the will.
Fuller says: Judge of thy improve
ment, not by what thou speakest o
writest, but by the firmness of tn
mind and the government OF thy
passions and affections.
Were not the eyes made TO re
ceive the rays of the sun, il coult
not behold the sun; il the peculia
power of God lay not in US, hoV
COuiu the UOu-llke cnafm us.
The only true Independence is il
humility; for the humble man ex
acts nothing, and cannot be morti
fed expects nothing, and canno
be disappointed.
We cannot see the breezes, bu
how grateful they are to the fever
ed brow. So the sympathy of kin
dred sorrows cannot be expressed
but how grateful it is to the woun
ded spirit.
Our lives should ever be charac
tefized by preparation for tn,
judgment seat of Christ, at wbicI
We must all stand to receive our re
wards for the deeds done in Ia,
body.