Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-03-23
Orient Pearls at Raldua StFVlI

Orient Pearls at Raldaa StFuI.
Let Another's passion be lecture
to thy reason.
Mans extremity Is Gods oppeR-
tunity.
Sensible meA show their sense by
saying much in few words.
The man who never made = mis-
take never made a discovery.
There is no greater virtue for eV-
cry day use, than cheerfulness.
Gay says: Pride IL increased by
arrogance; those assume the most
who know the least.
It is curious how little we feel the
burdens we put on the shoulders OF
others.
The sourest temper must sweeten
in the atmosphere of continuous
good humor.
There are wounds for which the
world has no balm; and there are
wants which no success can satisfy.
Do with trials rs men do with
new hats-put them on and wear
them until they become easy.
Good words are like dew drops,
they fall silently; but who can tell
their good effect?
The man who never smiles has no
diviVe call to the Sabbath School
ministry.
Real greatness does not depend on
the things we do, but on the mind
with which we do them.
The tears Of misery often prevent
our eyes from seeing the mercy close
at hand.
Satire should not be like q saw,
but like sword-it should cut, and
not mangle.
The pursuit for which we can not
ask Gods blessing must be crimi-
nal; the pleasure for which we dare
not thank Him cannot be innocent.
Like a beautiful flower, in full col
or, but without scent, are the fine
and fruitless words OF him who
does not act accordingly.
1t is not until we have passed
through the furnace that we are
made to know how much dross there
was in our composition.
Politeness is the outward garment
of good will but many are the nut
shells in which, II you crack them,
nothing like q kernel is to be found.
George Mcdonald said: One thing
is clear to me, that no indulgence OF
passion destroys the spiritual nature
so much as respectable selhshness.
Humility is grace that adorns
and beauties every other grace /;
without it, the most splendid natu-
raj and acquired qualities lose their
charm.
The way to cure bad habits, is to
let the fire OF love TO God and man,
kindled at the alter of prayer, burn
in the heart, and the bad habits viii
soon melt away.
Itisa true saying that those a
gainst whom our hearts are harden
ed most, are not those who have
have wronged.
To fatter persons adroitly, one
must know three things-what they
are, what they think they are, and
what they want other people to
think they are.
We should always be careful on
whom we bestow our benefits, for
il we bestow them upon the base
minded it is like throwing water
into the sea.
Necessity, that great refuge and
excuse for human frailty, breaks
through all law; and he is not &C
counted in fault, whose crime is not
the effect of choice, but force.
Follow after justice and duty;
such life is the path to heaven and
into the assembly of those who have
the body, dwell there foreVermore.
AS in the silence of the night the
ear catches the least sound, so in the
solitude of reflection, the mind de-
tects soft and delicate strains OF
thought unheard in the hustle of the
crowd.
A man who has no enemies ought
to have very faithful friends, and
one who has no such friends ought
not to think it a calamity that he
has enemies to be his efectual mont
tors.
We recognize goodness wherever
we find it. IT'S the same helpful
influence, identifying the meanest
as the greatest service by its man
ners, doing most when least consci.
Gus, as lift did it not.
Kind words are the bright flow,
ers of earth's existence; use them,
and especially around the fireside
circle at home. They are jewels be-
yOnd price, and powerful to heal
the wronged heart and make the
wounded heart glad.
Some one has truthfully said: GAS
the diamond is found in the darkest
mine; as the lightning shoots with
the most vivid flashes fromthe gloo.
miest cloud, so does mirthfulness
frequently proceed from heart sus.
eeptible OF the deepest melancholy.
However filed with the strife and
the gaiety of busting through the
life OF the toilin4 citizen, the queen
of fashion, or the popular statesman
may be, there is one passage of in.
tense isolation which none can es.
cape:
A lonely hour Is en- its way TO each,
To all; for death knows no companionShip
The loneliness OF dying is like the
loneliness of the sea, wherein MANY
ships cross and pass without speak.
ing. So do many human beings die
simultaneously, but make no signal,
to each other as the world shores
reeede, and the breath of the Infinite
swells the unseen sail; and the gray
waste looms in the silence Of its i'm