Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-20
He prayeth best, who loVeth best,
AL things both great and small,
Fer the dear God who loyeth us
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A promise should be given with
caution and kept with care. 1t
should be made with the heart and
remembered by the head.
Addison says: There are many
shining qualities in the mind of man,
but there is none more useful than
discretion.
Prodigals are persons who never |
learn the difference between a sover- |
eign and sixpence until they need |
the latter.
There Is nothing easier than to be
wise for others species of prodi-
gality, by the by-for such wisdom
is wholly wasted.
Insult not misery, neither deride
infrmity, nor ridicule deformity
the first shows inhumanity, the Sc
cond folly, and the third pride.
Society is divided into two classes;
those who have more dinners than
sppetites, and those who have more
appetites than dinners.
Strength must be found in the
thought, or it will never be found
in the words. Big sounding words
without corresponding thought, are
effort without effect.
The nearer we live to Jesus, and
the closer our walk is with him, the
less inclination we have for pursuits
and pleasures in which he is not
the object.
Watts, in one of his almost inspired
hymns, liked the human heart to q
"harp Of Q thousand strings" and
expressed his surprise that Il should
remain in tune to the great age of
three-scoTe and ten.
Money csn procure no shelter from
the terrible raVages of death. You
cannot bride the King of terrors
and the terror of Kings. You can
not purchase a covenant with the
grave.
None are SO fond of secrets az
those who do not mean to keep
them; such persons covet secrets as
q spendthrift does money, for the
purpose of circulation.
In the moral as in the physical
world, the violent is never the last
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luxuriance Of blossoms bears them
and dies.
Great effort from great motives is
the best definition of q happy life.
The easiest labor is burden to him
who has no motive for performing
il.
Rules for genius are useless; ge-
MUS possesses in an eminent degree
the perception of the beautiful, and
rules are only this perception reduc-
ed to method.
The haunts Of happiness are vari-
ed and rather uRacc0untable but
you will oftener see her among little
children, home fire-sides, and coun-
try houses than anywhere else.
Justice and generosity, rightly
blended, constitute dignified char
acter but certainly, so far as per-
son is more just than generous, or
more generous than just, that char
acter is defective.
A good conscience is better than
two witnesses-itwin consume grief
as the sun dissolves ice. 1t is a
spring when you are thirsty, a staff
when you are weary, screen when
the sun burns, and apillow in death
Which is best, good appetite or
rich food Which is best, little
pleasure daily, lasting as long as our
lives, or o few years of surfeit and a
lifetime Of querulous dyspepsia?
The man who aims to do all his
duties perfectly, win surely find all
the pleasures that he can enioy.
The duty shall whet his appetite for
pleasure, and the pleasure rest and
recroate tho man for duty.
II the show of anything be good
for anything, we are sure sincerity
is better for why docs any man dis
1enIbIe, or seem 20 be that which he
IL not, but because he. thinks IL good
20 have such quality as he prefends
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