Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-26
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!tlWdNb III ltdI.
Rule your fancy with your reason,
or it win oyerrulc you.
Study most those sciences which
lead to knowledge of myself.
Unite gcntleness of manners with
firmncss of mind.
The best prophet of the future is
The past.
There never was a good war or a
bad peace.
On their own merits, modest men
are dumb.
lie has hard work who has moth
ing to do.
Jean Paul Says: "Gravcs are hut
the footsteps of the angel of life"
Innocence is like polished armor.
IL adOrns and it defends.
Men blame themselves only for the
purpose Of being praised.
Zeal without knowledge is fire
without light.
The boughs that bear most fruit
hang lowest.
The birds Of the air, even, despise
the miser.
When the righteous die, it is the
earth that loses.
Let the honor of thy neighbor be
TO thee as thine own.
The house that does not open to
the poor, shall open to the physi-
clan.
Rather be thrown into a fiery fur
mace than bring any one to public
shame.
In conversation, wise man may
be at loss how to begin, but fool
never knows how to stop.
without hope our existence con-
stituted as we are-would be an in
suiIerablc bondage.
No one ever knew what friends
are worth until they had lived with
out them.
Temperance is corporal picty it
is the preservation of divine order
in the body.
Offer up not To Love. No love is
genuine whose altar asks the sacri-
fee
Better than fame is still the wish
for tamc-the constant trainings for
a glorious strife.
Every real thought, on every real
subject, knocks the wind out of
somebody or other.
Nature has sometimes made a
fool, but a coxcomb is always of
mans own making.
1t is a mistaken economy to save
time by robbing yourself of neccs-
sary sleep.
If you would not have ailliction
visit you twice, listen at once TO
what il teaches.
The violet grows low and covers
itself with its own tears, and of all
flowers yields the sweetest fra
GRANGE. Such is humility.
II is madness to make fortune the
mistress of events, because in itself
she is nothing, but is ruled by pre-
cedence-
The life Of Christian is an habit
Hal calling upon God. To live with
out prayer is the surest mark of Il
Christless soul.
The healthy mind is ever looking
forward to some great task to be
achieved and some bright reward to
be bravcly won.
The best humor is that which
contains the best humanity, that
which is favored throughout with
tenderness.
Pliny says: We do not want pre-
cepts, so much as patterns; an exam
pie is the softest and least invidious
way of commanding.
Ifmen did not look forward with
the eye of hope, where would be the
incentive to struggle onward in the
journey that leads from birth to
death.
Some women cling TO their own
houses, like the honey-suckle over
the door yet, like il; fiji an the re-
gion with the subtle fragrance of
their goodness.
There are three crowns of the
land, the Prophecy, the Priesthood,
and the Kinghood, but the crown
of a good namo is greater than them
all.
The dying benediction of a sage
TO his disciples was 81 pray for
you, that the fear of Heaven may be
as strong upon you as the fear of
man."
Writ says: Seize the moment of
excited curiosity on any subject to
solve your doubts; for if you let it
pass, the desire may never return.
and you may remain in ignorance.
II is that, terrible mental disease
the loss of hope-to which we must
attribute those cases of self distruc-
ton which have to be but too fire.
quently TecOrded-that horror of
the down-castisoul which -perceives
no bright beams in the future.
To look forward is law of our
nature; il is the. secret of our sue
cess. To il we owe all the triumphs
of science, all the beauties of art,
and all thc.pleasures by which we
arc surrounded.
For what purpose would man
with pen and pencil, and kchisel-
each mau after his bent create
things ofbealIty, which are joys for
ever, if there were not something to
work forward to as the reward of
genius, talent and industry?
Hope is perhaps the first feelings
that distinguishes man from The
ncasors,uinrtl~: il is the evidence, at
the existence OF something luIticr
than mere instinct; il is, rs il were,
the eye OF the mind working tor
ward into luturily.
II would bc no unworthy thing To
live for, 70 make the power which
we have within u> the breath of 9th |
~ mems Joy; To hll the atmosphere
which they must stand ia with a /
brightness which they cannot create |
Tor themselves.
We should, every night, call our |
selves 60 an account. What Dirmi' |
tN have we mastered TODAY? What |
passion opposed? What temptation
resisted oar vices will abate of /
themselves IL they are brought eve 1
~ day to the shrifi.
Hope is 10 mankind in general /
what the North Star is To the tenn
pest-tcssed mariner. Bv Hope we
steer our course through life, and,
although we may be destined never
10 attain all that we desire, still,
Hope lights and cheers lis ON our
way.
Sunday is the key of the arch
which spans the week past aud the
week 10 come, and underneath its
beautiful and peaceful cxpanse, the
rich and the poor, the high and the
low, sit down together in the same