The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-04-18
NUMBER I0.
SENSE AND SENTIMENT.

ItAetA hS - 10 teti.
We gain nothing BY falsehood but
the disadvantage Of being believed
when we told the truth.
Gratitude is a duty that none can
be excused from, because it is al.
ways at our own disposal.
Love, fyou would be loved: serve
if you would be served; and humble
YOURSELF If you would be exalted.
Praye, makes the Christian in a
sense omnipotent and omniprescnt
1t prevails with him who is both.
1t is better for parents to instruct
their children and seek to make
home happy, than it is to charm
strangers or amuse friends.
II our moti<e in all that we do
were only how to please our Heaven.
" Father, not one labor of our hands
would be lost.
Bad habits are thistles of the
heart, and every indulgence in them
IS a seed from which will spring =
new crop Of weeds.
When Il man owns himself 10 Ia
in an error, he does but tell YOU il,
other words, that he is wiser than be
was.
There are none that fall so unpi.
tied rs those who have raised them.
selves upon the spoils of the public.
Il Estange.
The inauence OF costume is meal
culablei dress boy as man and he
will at once change his own concep.
ti"ns of himself
1t is vain to hope to please all alike.
Let = man stand with his face ia
whatever way he viii, he must nee
essarily turn his back on one
half the world.
We have but one moment at once.
let us improve it. Our moment will
soon come when this life shall cease
may we so live to meet it without
regret.
A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this.
that when injury began on his part
for the kindnes to begin on ours
'Fillotson.
Look always at the bright side OF
things, as the cheering and invigora-
ting sun does; and remember that
content is the mother of good
discretion.
Aaectation in any part or carriage
is lighting mp a candle to our de
Fects, and never fails to make us no
liced, either as wanting sense or
wanting sincerity.
five stand in Christ, we are at
the other side of death, for doath
hath no more dominion over him
and we are at the other side of iudg-
ment for he himself is Judge.
1t is the highest duty, privilege,
and pleasure for great men to earn
what they possess, 20 work their
own way through lite, to be archi-
tects Of their own fortunes.
4 mans desires always disap-
point him FOR though he meets with
some things that give him satislac-
ton, yet it never thoroughly an
swers hIs expecsations.-Rochef-
weauld.
1t is a vain thing for You to
thrust your finger in the water, and.
then look for hole; it Is equally
vain to suppose that, however large
a space you occupy, the world will
miss you when you die.
Everything shat God wants from
as, and everything that We want
from God, is in Christ. Having
this position, what manner of con.
versation should be ours in this
world.
There is in some tempers such q
natural barreness, that like tile
sands of Arabia, they are never 90
be cultivated and improved. Aud
some will never learn anything. be
cause they understand everything
too soon.
Pleasure and pain, Though direct
~ opposite, are yct so eOntriyrd by
nature, as To be constant compan-
ions; and it is a fact that the same
motions and muscles Of the face are
employed both in laughing and cry
ing.
To be free from desire is money:
to be free from the rage Of perpotu-
ally buying something new, IS
certain revenue; to be content with
what We possess constitutes the
greatest aud most certain OF all rich /
ss.
The hour Of enjoying the harm
less and reasonable pleasures oflife.
is not only essential to a mans han /
piness, but sH Indication OF several |
qualities, both Of the head 4
and ofthe heart, which can hardly
exist withoutit.
Justice aud generosity, rightly I
blended, eonstit. te digniied char /
.cter, but certa ly. SO FAR as a per /
'on is more Just than generous. or
more generous Il an just, that char
.cter is defective.
Here is a pearl Of the purest 4
water.
a christian s. statesman has recent
y said IN . public address % the
'eople Of the Southern States;
"Faith in God aRd hope for man
re the Only fundamental principles
D my human creel- To gorrhip
fod and elevate man are the only /
lndamental obligations / admit
III things else are simple means to
ecomplish these glOriOas ends.
Fortune has tho same power over
rinces that it has over empires
yer nati0Hs that it has over cities
and the same power over cities
Hst it has ever private men. Where
J that estate that may not be fol-
~ i uEoa the heel with fam
se and beggars2 That dignity
-hieh the next Hfomc8s may not be
I'D IN dUsss That kingdom that IS
ecuie from deeoission and
uing The ncFiod of all things At
aud, as Eei as that which east out
he unfortunate, as the OTTER that
eliveFa the anhaPpy, aud that