Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-10
Orient Pearls at Random Strung

orient Pearls at Random Strung
He whose face gives no light shall
never become a star.
Satire is only as sharp as a needle
when truth gives it point.
Adversely willingly undergone is
the greatest virtue.
Old Erasmus said, 81 feel better
man for reading Cicero"
Have no friend who is inferior to
yourself.
Coleridgc defines poetry as "the
best words in their best places.
Contention is contagious, it
spreads almost insensibly.
1t is appointed unto man once to
die, and after death, the judgment.
The empire of death is universal.
What man is it that lives and shall
not see death?
However widely the paths of men
may diverge in life, they lead to
common eHG>-the grave.
Low spirits cannot exist in the at
mosphere of bodily and mental ac-
tivity.
He who has no opinion of his own,
but depends upon the opinion and
taste of another, is a slave.
Temperance, indeed, is bridle,of
gold; and he who uses it rightly, is
more like god than man.
1t is better to accomplish perfect
ly very small amount, than to half
do ten times as much.
The lonelIest of all mortals are
those who are in advance of their
age.
Herder, when dying, said, "give
me little thought, that l may con-
sole myself.
Zoroaster, the great law-giver,
put the planting ola tree among the
meritorious acts.
Emerson says, "To succeed, one
must enter into the game. and whirl
with the whirling world"
The world is all up hill when we
would do; all down hill when we
suffer.
BE in earnest, but not presumptu-
Gus. Whatsoever your hands find
TO do, do it with all your might.
The man who mover alters his
opinion is ike standing water, and
breeds reptiles Of the mind.
Title and ancestry render a good
man more illutrations, but an i'll one
more contemplate.
Vice is infamous, though in
prince, and virtue honorable, though
in peasant.
A wise man will never rust out.
AS long as he can move or breathe
he will do something for himself,
for his neighbor, or for posterity.
A wise man will desire no more
than what he may get justly, use Sc
curely, distribute cheerfully, and
live contentedly.
Such is the force of Imagination,
that we continue to fear long after
the cause which produced the fear
has ceased to exist.
There is kind of magic in truth
which fOrcibly cirries the mind
along with it. Men readily embrace
the dictates of sincere reason.
We should be careful to deserve
good reputation, by doing well;
and when that care is once taken,
not be over anxious about the sue
cess.
Hail an omnibus in bad weather,
and it will stop to aid you; but hail
a friend in your adversely, and see
what notice he will take Of you.
The greatest ornament of an Illus
trious life is modesty and humility,
which 90 great way in the charac-
ter even of the most exalted prin-
ces.
Exercise for the body, occupation
for the mind, these are the grand
constituents ofhealth and happiness,
the cardinal points upon which
everything turns.
Grief knits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can; and
common suffering is stronger link
than common joy.
Consolation indiscreetly pressed
upon us when we are suffering I'M
der affection, only serves to increase
our pain, and render our grief more
poignant.
10 is with narrow-souled people
as with narrow-necked bottles; the
less they have in them, the more
noise they make in pouring out.
The talent of turning men into
ridicule, and exposing to laughter
those one converses with, is the
qualification of little minds and I'M
generous tempers.
With many readers, brilliancy Of
style passes for afiluence of thought;
they mistake buttercups in the grass,
for Unreasonable gold mines under
ground.
When you make presents, let them
be of such things as will last long
TO the end they may be in some sort
immortal, and may frequently re-
fresh the memory of the receiver.
In all evils which admit remedy
impatience should be avoided, be-
cause il wastes that time and atten-
ton in complaints, which if proper
ly appisd, might remove the cause.
The avaricious man is like the
barren sandy ground of the desert,
which sucks in all the rain and dews
with greediness, but Yields no fruit
tui herbs or plants for the benefit of
others.
Life is made up, not of great sacri-
fees, or duties. but of little things.
in which smiles and kindness, and
small obligation, given habituallv.
are what win and preserve the heart.
and secure comfort.
The laws keep up their credit, not
because they are all just, but be.
cause they are laws. This is the
mystical foundation of their author
ity, and they have no other.
Necessity, that great refuge and
excuse for human frailty, breaks
through all law; and he is not to be
accounted in fault, whose crime is
not the effect of choice, but force.
False happiness renders men stern
and proud, and that happiness is
never communicated. True happi-
ness readers men kind and sensible.