Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-06-15
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lie that has no bride on his tongue
has no grace in his heart.
An honest man lives not to the
world, but to his own conscience.
Very near together are hearts that
have no guile.
Let us have unspOken creeds, and
these quick and operative.
Let us love those things much
which we are not sure to live long
to love, nor have long if we should.
The Chinese have a proverb, that
the gods themselves cannot help n
man who loses opportunities.
Hedge says: Prayer and religion
are one and inseparsble; as much as
there is of one, so much of the other.
Cato says the very best way to
keep good acts in memory, is to re-
fresh them with new ones.
AS soon as a person takes pleas
ure is heaving a SANDER, he is to be
ranked in the number of slandeTers.
Do not reproach man for the sin
which he has committed when God
has forgiven him.
He who lords it over those who
are below him, shall one day find a
master who will lord it over him.
He who relates the faults of 9TH
ers to you, desires to relate yours to
others.
The most perfect pleasures in this
world are always mingled with some
bitterness.
BY doing good to those who have
evil intentions towards us, you
thereby shut their mouths.
The greatest advantage man can
procure for his children is to have
them well educated.
He who possesses a knowledge of
any art or science is at least equal
to a great lord.
Men, because of speech, have the
advantage over beasts; but brutes
are preferable to men whose lam
guage is profane or indecent.
ALWAYS consult discretion-it is
more discreet to be silent than to
speak when it is not accompanied
by sense and reason.
DIR. Johnson says: Everyone is
not able - stem the temptations of
public life; and if he cannot con-
-quer he may properly retreat.
The poor should get learning in
order to be wise; and the rich
should acquire it for ornament or
usefulness.
An avaricious man leads life of
poverty here below, but he must
give the account of rich man in the
day of Judgment.
lie who does good shall not lose
his reward. A good action never
perishes neither before God nor
before man.
He who applies himself to acquire
knowledge, puts himself in the ca
pacity or way of possessing all good
things.
Those who will not forgive an Of
fence when ropented of, are the most
accurscd of all men. Forgive, so
that you may hope to be forgiven.
The heart of the afflicted draws all
its consolation from the words Oh
Lord! The soul receives life and
vigor at the bare mention Of Thy
name.
A friend should be one in whose |
understanding and virtue we can
equally confide, and whose opinion |
we can value at once for its justuess
and sincerity.
That day in which a man does not |
some good action, nor acquires some |
useful knowledge, should not be, i'll
possible, numbered in the days of |
existence.
a lady was once asked the reason |
why she always came so early to |
church. Because" said She, at is 1
part of my religion never to disturb
the religion of Others"
The world is the heaven of the
good, and the heaven of the wicked.
that is, it is all the evil the GOOD /
shall meet with, and all the good /
the wicked shall enjoy.
Never despise a man because his
employment is humble or his cloth
ing bad. The bee is an insect which
Is not very pleasing 10 the eye, vet |
its hive affords an abundance of
honey.
If ever the human spirit be rem
dered capable of contemplating the
mysteries of the Divinity, it is Thou
who givest it the light by which il
understands, and the attractions bv
which it is penetrated.
He who is worth being called n
man, is mistaken in adversity, hum
bic in prosperity, active and bold in
danger; and if he is not learned and
wise, has, at least, love for learn
ing and wisdom. Ii
y wise man practices the three
following things: He abandons the
world before it abandons him; he
builds his sepulchre before the time
of entering it, and he dates all with
the design to please God, before en-
tcring into his presence.
The way to wealth is as pIain rs !
Tho way to market. 1t depends
chiefly on two words--industry ana
md frugality; that is, waste neither a
.ime nor money. Without those 5
.wo, nothing will do, with them,