The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-01-11

Only an empty name,
Only a weary frame,
- Only a conscious smart,
Only an aching heart.
Aftcr this empty nane,
After this weary frame
After this conscious slnart,
After this aching heart,
What chen
Only z sad farewell
To world levet too WE'LL
Only a silent bed
WiIh the Forgotten dead
After this SD farewell
To worla loved too welt,
After this silent bed
With the forgotten dead,
" What thens
lie who attempts to compress
three lives in one, viii Inevitably e2-
perience failure. Tie who tries 70
live in the past and future, merely
vegetables IN the present.
God reveals his Benefeenee to the
poet and artist IN the clouds that
curtain the skies, and the mist thai
mantles the mountains. lie shows
Ills bounty to the husbandman and
operatives in genial showers and en-
failing rivers.
1t is by the PRONUNCIATION Of sound
morals in the community, and moro
especially by the training aad ia-
struetion Of the young, that woman
performs her part towards the pres
eryation Of free gevernment-so
says Webster
Richter says; Like merning dawn
life becomes more and more bright
the longer we ike, aud the reason OF
everything becomes mere clear
What puzzled as before seems less
and the crooked paths
look straigbter as We approach the
end.
Whatever is highest and holiest
is tinged with melaneholy The eye
of genius has always plaintive ex-
preston, and its natural language is
pathos.
The want OF normal conceptions
Of rights and obligations iinpairs
TIM civil codes and iinperiis the so
cial and political life of nations.
The domain Of morality covers
the springs ofhumau actioni and, aa
this selfeonseious life Of man is on
ly illuminated through man, the
race is at times involved IN moral
The great difference betwcen men
between the feeble and tho power
rul-the great and insignificant, is
energy, invinciAle discrimination
once fixed upon, and then
death or victory. That quality will
compass anything lhat.is possible ia
life, and no talent no circumstances
no opportunities, will make a man
it.
Nothing perishcs in this world,
but things merely vary and change
their form. To be born means SIM
ply that thing begins to be some
thing different from what IL was be-
fore; and dying is ecasirg to be the
same thing. Yet, although nothing
retains long the same image, che
sum of the whole remains constant.
II Py thagoras.
Habits OF seorn and contempt are
BASED in and grow ont Of an inordi-
aate self-righteousnesa-the "holier-
.han-thoue principle, II is very far
,emoved from that humility which
iistrusts its own powers, and hence
seeks alliance with power above;
md so, by the operation Of a self.
.ighteous INSTINCT, it gravigates to-
ward q coalescing with the very evil
which ct the outset, Il affected TO
corn and treat with contempt.
Your way may wind along dan
,erous Bride paths, and amid VOLTS
Iowf and the screams Of the yuliurc,
,ut the way stin winds upward till
ngels guard it, and trees or life
,yerarch Il, and thrones line it, and
crystalline fountains leap on it, and
he pathway ends at gates that are
,earl, and streets that arc gold, aud
cmples that are always open, and
ills that quake With perpetual song,
nd > City mingling forever Sabbath
nd jubilee and triumph and coro-
alton.
in this world the man who, riding
yer CORY fields, trampling on the
cad, moves onward to victory. *
-elcomed by tic multitu,Ies with
lid acclamations and they place
pon his brow the lauFels OF triumph.
.ut the man who, in the quiet cham
crs OF his soul without clash of
rms or smoke Of battle, achieves
be thorough conquest Of himself on
is brow, amid the hallelujaha of
cayen, Cod shall place a royal dia-
en-.
What VIC habjtuato ourselves 80
lmirc, We love to associate with,
nd what weasociate sith gradually
nitates and adopts It's fssatures ia
) our lives. They who asFociate
ith the good are much strong
+ than they who 60 out alone to
ght the evil Christianity would
ever have succeed had il heen
ystem Of mere negations-ifit it had
OF trained its disciples to bitter
,orn and intense and direct oppo
tion Of what was heaihenlsm ana
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