Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-06
Orient Pearls at Random Strung.

al labL.
Satire is a glass in which the be-
holder sees everybody's face but his
own.
Remember, those who praise you
in the beginning, win ask fayors in
the end.
If q man speaks or acts with a
pure thought, happiness follows him
like shadow that never leaves him.
1t is always in our power to make
a friend by smiles. What = folly,
then, 10 make an enemy by frowns.
When man has no design but to
speak plain truth, he may say great
deal in very narrow compass.
1t is as great a point of wisdom to
hide ignorance as to discover know
ledge.
While the gift of conversation
proves q clever man, the want of it
is no proof OF dull one.
Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man is richer, or
happier, or wiser for it.
Aspasia says: 'Ifhe love me, the
merit is not mine; the fault will be
ifhe ceases"
Confucius says: "When you have
learned to live well, you win know
how to die we'll"
A Chinese proverb hath it that he
who forgives everything forgives
himself nothing.
u,ho MAJ, x,,to. he vot 1oo,,,o5 20
hold his tongue, has failed to learn
the first principles of good speaking.
Mankind are odd creatures. One
half censure what they practice, and
the other half practice what they
censure.
Though a taste of pleasure may
quicken the relish of life, an unre-
strained indulgence leads to newt
able destruction.
Oil the blessings of q home where
old and young mix kindly - the
young unRwed, the old unchilled, in
unreserved communion.
Few things are more necessary in
life than judgment, firmness and
courage. With them a man can
rarely fail; without them he can
rarely succeed.
All great things arc done by Titles.
Atoms make worlds. The greatest
fortunes consist OF farthings. Life
is made UP OF moments.
A pound of energy with an ounce
of talent win achieve greater results
than pound of talent with an ounce
of energy.
Mono more impatiently suffer in
iuries than those that are most for
ward In doing them
A mans influence tells more than
he generally supposes, often even
upon persons who seem but little to
regard him.
Much of the comfort of this life
consists in acquaintance, friendship
and correspondence with those that
are pious, prudent and virtuous.
AS frost to the bud and blight to
the blossom, even such is self-inter-
est to friendship and confidence
cannot dwell where selfishness is
porter at the gate.
The stream of life forks, and relig-
ion is apt to run in one channel and
business in another. Happy that
man who can make his business sub
seryient to his religion.
We worship the promotion of all
good, all that is very beautiful, shi-
ming, immortal, bright-eyerything
that is good.
AN unjust accusation is like a
barbed arrow, which must be drawn
backward with horrible anguish, or
else will be your destruction.
Plato says: "Seven years Of silent
inquiry are needful for man to
learn the truth, but fourteen in or
der to learn how to make IL known
to his fellow-men."
The most fruitful and natural ex-
ercise of tho mind, in nay opinion, is
conversation. find the use of it
moro sweet than any other action in
life.-MontGtgne.
Let every man be himself let him
cultivate, first, self-rcspect and
then respect for others. Self-respect
gives self-possesiion, and self-pos-
session is one ofthe browning graces
of society.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute /,
What you can do or think you can, begin
Bo!dness has genius, power, and magic in
Only engage, and then the mind grows
Begin il, and the work will be completed.
The violet grows low and covers
itself with its own tears, and of all
flowers yields the sweetest fra
GRANGE. Such is humility.
Proud truly says: ''If happiness
means only absence of care and mex
perience of painful emotions, the
best securities of it are hard heart
and a good digestion"
When difficulties increase, a spir-
itual Christian seeks wisdom of
God; and the, God of wisdom, &C
cording to his promise, bestows it.
Earthly friends may fail you,
But God is always true.
Men often omit the good they
might do in consequence of thinking
about that which lis out of their
power to do.
Rev. John Hall says: ado your
0ub1Oo anu leu Wthltu COLll0 10 you, II
God will then there is hope that
your culture and capacity to use il
will keep pace with its growth"
The simple deem that they COM
plete their education in six or eight
years but the wise question wheth-
or theirs is terminated evenS at
death.
Bacon says: Gle that gives good
advice, builds with one hand; he
that gives good counsel and exam
pie, builds with the other; but he
that gives good admonition and bad
example, builds with one hand and
pulls down with the other"
The first qualities wanted in all
who deal with the education of chill
dren-patience, self-eontrol, and a
Youthful heart that remembers its
own early days.
There is dew in one flower and not
in another, because one opens its cup
and takes it in, while the other clos
es itself and the drop runs of. So
God rains goodness and mercy as
wide as the dew; and if we lack
them, it is because we will not open
our hearts to receive them.