Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-24
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sure his example can do no hurt.
Religion, like pure air, can bring
only life.
1t is some skill in play TO know
when the game is lost.
Vain regrets the most INV 6thy
chain that can bind a mortal.
The defense of truth is never with
cut adequate fruits.
DR.. Holmes characteristically calls
talk ripple and thought q ground
swell.
Majorities, especially respectable
ones, are, nine times aut of ten,
wrong.
Real greatness does not depend
upon the things we do, but on the
mind with which we do them.
The mind of man is the worlds
true dimension, and knowledge is
the measure of the mind.
IF the philosopher be happy, it is
because he is the man from whom
fortune can take the least.
The life of a wise and good IN an
is legacy of inestimable value to
mankind.
Heaven is the recompense of those
who have failed, trying to do good,
ON earth.
Hall says: lie who does evil that
good may come, pays toll to the
devil.
Prayer is the peace of our spirits,
the stiffness of our thought, and
the calm of our transports.
The actions of men are like the in
dex of q book, they point out what
is most remarkable IN them.
The most certain way of being
cheasted is to imagine ones self
more cunning than others.
Minds of moderate caibre are apt
to ignore everything that does not
come within their own range.
Pride is the daily occupant of our
bosoms, and ever feeds on the mean
ness and infrmity ofour kind.
Seneca says: After a bad crop
you should immediately begin to
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When the church falls In with the
spirit Of the times, in order to con-
troll It, that generation has fallen
upon evil times.
Wisdom which is according TO
God, is a learning which requires
no letters, and whose teacher is
love. mnzi %
"a little leayen leaveneth the
whole" so large macs of error Is
easily embalmed and perpetuated by
a little truth.
Do one thing at a time-that is
the rule when you have done sland-
ering your neighbors, then say your
prayers.
Locke said the way to cure our
pFejudices is for every man to let
alone those he complains of in 9TH
ers, and examine his own.
Great wickedness and great self
righteousness are often found united
in the same persons aud commune
ties.
We hear those complain most that
they get no quiet, whose want of il
arises from the eruptions of their
own passions.
A woman's manners indicate her
taste, temper and feeling, as well
az the society to which has she
been accustomed.
To all men, the best friend is viz
tue, the best companions are high
endeavors and honorable senti-
ments.
The principle of all virtue and ex-
ceileace lies In the power of DENYING
opraelYos the satisfaction Of our
own desires.
Foul hearts alone harbor foul sus-
pieions, and fancy Others to be what
they know they might become
themselves.
The only way 10 make the mass
of mankind see the beauty of Justice,
is by showing them in pretty plain
termsthe consequence of injustice.
Conceit and confidence are both
of them cheats; the first always i'm
poses on itself, the second frequent-
by decisive the others too.
While the earth remaineth seed
time and harvest, and cold and heat
and summer and winter, and dav
and night, shall not cease.
There is no path but will be east
er TO travel, no load but viii be
lighter, no shadow but ON heart or
brain butwill lift sooner, in the pre-
sence of determined cheerfHIness.
Men and statues that are admired
IN an elevated position have q very
Authenticated on US when we APP
preach them;the first appear less than
We imagined them, the last larger.
Favor is deceitfal and beauty is
vain, but the price of a virtuous
wife is far above rubies; she openeth
her mouth with wisdom, and in her
songucis the law OF Kindness
What l was III the worlds esteem
seemed to me of some Importance
while l lived; but what I really was
as q believer in Christ is the only
thing OF Importance TO me now.
The world has few greater
pleasures than that which two
friends enjoy, in tracing back, at
some distant time, those transac-
TONS and events through which
they have passed together.
Virtue seems 10 be nothing more
than a motion consonent to the svs-
tenn of things; were a planet to ly
from its orbit il would repre- sent a
vicious man.
Humility is q grace that adorns
and beauties every other grace;
without il, the most splendid natu-
raj and acquired abilities lose their
charms.
Among the writer's Of all sees.
some deserve fame and have ID. 9th.
ers neither have nor deserve il. some
have 1t not deserving, others.
though deserving, yet totally miss
it, or have it not equal to their de-
ssrts.
Christ is the real and entire foun-
tain head of what is understood nv
the name of Liberty" the large
foster-fatheF Of the human sgfll. a.
IL is supported and impelled By a
human so9l.
God has simply said, 81 am He
sets as il were, his hand TO blank
that his people may write under il
what the please that is good for
them. AS il he should say, Are they
weak2 [ am strength. Are they
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