Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-05-25

Life is but the preface to death.

Life is but the preface to death.
Private sincerity is public welfare.
lie who avoids temptation avoids
sin.
Deeds are fruits; words are but
leaves.
Everything in life has right and
a wrong side.
Beauty without grace is a hook
without bait.
We all hope to grow old, but very
few hope to die.
Hatred stirreth up strifes; but
love covereth all sins.
Gray hairs remind us of the de-
caying vigor of life.
Just crit cism is the last result of
abundant experience
You win see in the world chiefly
that for which you look.
The only escape from selfish con-
ceit is spiritual worship.
Kant says two things-conscience
and the stars--are sublime.
No one ever lived so long that he
was unwilling to live another day.
Cicero says: There is not one
law at Athens and another at Rome.
1 am,-said a dying minister
therefore God-the infinite Being
is.
Tainted meat is never made sweet. |
A wounded reputation is seldom
cured.
Emerson says-Every mans task,
ifrightly performed, is his life pre-
server.
The excess of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with in
terest.
No art can teach which does not
move-no art can move without
teaching.
The old are gradually, almost i'm
perceptibly, cutting away from the
moorings of life.
Respect age, and honor gray hairs
with that reverence accorded their
due by the polite in all time.
The earth inits revolutions man.
ages about right. 1t never has dark
ness all over at the same time.
IL may be sad to contemplate
death, but it is sweet to reflect upon
an undecaying immortality beyond.
Hippocrates says: Without health
we can enjoy no fortune, honor or
riches, and all other advantages are
useless.
Wealth is a relative thing; since
he that has little aud wants less, is
richer than he that has much and
wants more.
True liberty consists in the priv
ilege of enjoying our own rights {
not in the destruction of the rights
of others.
Old age gives us intimation of
what eternity is-some appreciation :
Of that eternal Now, spreads out to
infinite shores.
The childish heart vies in the
height of its surges with the manly.
'nly 1T is not furnished with lead
or sounding them. I
Philosophy is the art of finding a
he place OF truth in every encoun- \
er, event and circumstance to at r
une all relations to truth. n
Be thou what thou singly art and 2
'ersonate only thyself. Swim '
moothly in the stream of tbv ma CT
ure, and live but one man. n
Why is it time seems 10 linger in n
outh, yet so swiftly passes in ace? b
o enable us to grasp, to some de-
rec, the meaning of eternity. OF
The intellect is superior to the N
hysical system. While the world ="
SITS, the sun will gid the noun -
i'm tops before it shines upon the
ain. -
1t will afford sweeter happiness in
le hour OF death to have wiped one
ar from the cheek of sorrow than
have ruled an empire, to have
nquered millions or to have en- n
aved a world. H
AS age comes upon man he be-
mes conscious that the dearest af-
ctions OF his heart have persisted c.
ON the earth, to live beyond the
ave; to WOO him from life to como
them; to be reunited forever. ~
If you wait for others to lift your 4
rdens of life, the probability is wiz wiz
u viii be overwhelmed and crush
beneath them. The best way is NJ.
lift them yourself, one by one, as NO
ey come, until You have placed j.,
en- all behind you. j.
lie who is constantly watching WA
: troubles win find them stretch7
off into gloomy wildernesses.
lille he who is watching for bless. Wv
rs will find them extended in har- "
its of Iuxuriance.
philosopher says that tho true II
ret of happiness is to enjoy pleas LID
IS as they rise; for that man who NJ
keep his eye upon the bright No
sent, while it is bright, tastes
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