Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-03-30
Orient Pearls at Random Strung.
Seek good and pursue it.

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You cannot escape anxiety and la
Dor; they are the heritage of man.
Greatness is not in being strong,
but in the right use of strength.
The great occasions demanding
sublime sacrifice are few and rare.
Little, every day acts are those by
which the character is determined.
Strong reasons make strong ac-
tions.
Choose ever to do and say what is
the most just and most correct.
In reflections on the absent, go no
farther than you would if they were
present.
Always be at leisure to do good;
never make business an excuse to
decline the offices of humanity.
Contentment is of such great val
ne that it cannot be dearly purchas-
ed.
A knowledge of our own weak
ness creates in us a charity for 9th
ers.
Let the slandered take comfort it
is only at fruit trees that thieves
throw stones.
Falsehood is often rocked by
truth, but she soon outgrows her
cradle, and discards her nurse.
Literature is a garden, books are
particular views of it, and readers
are visitors.
The truly grateful heart may not
be able to tellOf gratitude, but it can
feel, and love and act.
Friendship is the medicine for all
misfortunes but ingratitude dries
up the fountain of all goodness.
A celebrated clergyman recently
said that he had found more good in
bad people, and more bad in good
people than he ever expected.
Praise from common people is gen.
orally false, and rather follows vain
persons than virtuous ones.
The highest victory of our reli-
gion is to follow Jesus over the rug
ged path of self-denial.
The daily battle of Christian prin-
ciple is with that artful, subtle,
greedy sinner, self.
Through Christ come to us all the
blessings for the present, all hopes
for the future life.
Goeth says: The first and last
thing which is required of genius is
the love of Truth.
We are often prophets to others
only because we are our own histo-
rians.
OF all earthly music, that which
reaches the farthest into heaven is
the beating of loving heart.
To being so nobly endowed as
man, God himself can give nothing
better than opportunity.
Genius has an orbit of it's own; il
it moved through the orbit of com.
monplace lives it would not be gent.
US, but commonplace.
Most arts require long study and
application; but the most useful Of
all arts-that of pleasing-requires
only the desire.
When once infidelity can persuade
men that they shall die like beasts
they soon win be brought to live
like beasts also.
The most popular doctrine to
preach in these times, and the hard.
est one to practice, is the old fash
Toned Apostolic doctrine of self-de.
NAL.
1t is with the finest character as il
is with the finest woods and mar
bles; the polishing hand is still
needed to bring out the veins o.
beauty and grace.
The burden of the gospel is love
but it is love which speaks the
commands of God with authority
and insists upon obedience to Hin
as the only way of safety and life.
A celebrated writer saws that i
one could read it every human being
carries his life in his face, and Il
good looking or the reverse, as tina
life is good or evil.
Sin-says South-is but a bitter
sweet at best; and the fine colors O
the serpent do by no means make
amends for the smart and poison O
the sting.
The man who can vary his pur
suits, and has time for everything
for himself, for his wife, for his chill
dren, for his friends-alone under
stands what it is to live.
Bishop Beveridge says: 1 resolv,
never to speak of mans VIRTUES
before his face, nor of his faults be
hind his back" A golden rule, tn,
observance of which would at on,
stroke Danish from the earth flatter,
and defamation.
Montague says: "The advantage
OF living does not consist in length
of days, but in the right improve
ment Of them" AS many DAYS a
we pass without doing some good
are so many entirely lost.
The spirit of true religion breathe
gentleness and affability; it is social
Kind and cheerful; far removed
from that gloomy, illiberal supersti
ton and bigotry which cloud TN
brow, sour the temper, defect tn
spirit, and impress moroseness Oh
the manners.