The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-07-04
Sense aud Sentiment.

Life is but the preface ofdeath.
Private sincerely is public welfare
He who avoids temptation avoids
sin.
Deeds are fruits; words are but
leaves.
Everything in life has a right and
a wrong side.
Gray hairs remind Us Of decaying
vigor of life.
Beauty without grace is a hook
without bait.
We all hope to grow old, but very
few hope TO die.
Hatred stirreth up strifes; but
love covereth all sins.
just criticism is the last result of
abundant experience.
You viii sec in the world chiefly
that for which you look.
Man isBot made Tor the world.
but the world for man.
The only escape from selfish con
ceit is spiritual worship.
Kant says two things-cC nscience
and the stars are sublime.
Efforts, it must not be forgotten,
are as indispensable rs desires.
No one ever lived so long that he
was not willing to live another day.
All exertion is in itself, delightful.
and active amusements never tire
US.
I am,-said a dying minister
therefore God--the infinite being
= is.
It is our business in this world to
secure an interest in the world to
come.
Cicero says: There is not one
law at Athens and another one at
Rome.
Tainted meat is never mode sweet.
A wounded reputation is seldom
cured.
Emerson says:-Eyery mans task
if rightly performed, is his life pre-
server.
The excess of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with in
terest.
No art can teach which docs not
move-nO art can move without
teaching.
We must not only "strike while
the iron is hot" but strike till it is
made hot.
Men had rather hear of Chris
crucified for them, than to be cruci-
fed for Christ.
The old are gradually, almost i'm !
perceptibly, cutting away from the |
moOrings Of life.
No sensible man can conceive such !
a thing as the total annihilation of
any created thing.
In regard to natural life we live
in God; in regard to spiritual life, /
Christ lives in us.
Man is so constituted that when
fully developed he may know and |
do the will of God.
Fear cautiously avoids whatever
may offend; love yields a prompt
and liberal service.
Fear regards God as a witness
and a Judge; love clings to him as a
friend, nay, father.
Respect age, and honor gray hairs
with that reverance accorded their
due by the polite in all times.
The earth in its revolutions mana
ges about right. 1t never has dark
ness all over at the same time.
Shall the sinner be proud that he
is going TO hell2 Shall the saint be
proud that he is saved from it2
Whatever we make an idol Of will
be a cross to us if we belong to
Christ; and curse to us if we do
not.
Covetousness betrayed our Sa-
vior, envy accused him, and the
friendship Of the world condemned
him.
It may be sad to contemplate
death, but it is sweet to reflect up
on an undecaying immortality be-
yond.
Hippocrates says; Without health
we can enjoy no fortune, honor or
riches, and all other advantages are
useless.
Wealth Is a relative thing; since
he that is littlO and wants less, is
richer than he that has much and
wants more.
True liberty consists in the privi-
lege of enjoying our own rights
not in the destruction OF the rights
Of others,
Old age gives Us intimation Of
what eternity is-some appreciation
Of that eternal Now, spreads out to
infinite shores.
The childish heart vies in the
height of its surges with the manly
only il is not furnished with lead
for sounding them.
Philosophy is the art Of finding
the place of truth in every enconn-
ter, event and circumstances to at
tune all relations to truth.
Be thou what thou singly art, and
persOnate only thyself Swim
smoothly in the stream Of your ma
-ure, and live only one man.
Why is it time seems to inger in
youth, vet so swiftly passes in age? /
To enable US 10 grasp, to some de
gree, the meaning Of eternity.
The intellect is superior to the
physical system. While the wOFla
asts, the sun viii guild the noun
ian tops before it shines upon the
plains.