Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-16
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ehJ than proud Win ten.
Aim to do some permanent good
every day, that your existence may
he crowned with usefulness.
Tho most mischievOus liars are
those who keep just on thei verge
of truth.
Learning makes man Il company
for himself, andhwelcome company
10 others.
knowledge may, increase sin if
The heart be not educated as well as
the head.
TO deal frankly, honestly and
firmly with all men turns out best
in the long run.
In life is not to be counted the ig-
norance of infancy or the imbecility
of age.
The glowing spark of life is too
often permitted to be almost extin-
guishcd in the ashes of the world.
FoRREAE-
ForBear. wrath only kindles wrath,
And siirs up passions fire;
While dRstoering softly mildly tends
10 cheek the DlJlcTesL uIt.
THINK BEFORE You SPEAK
Ii your lips you would save from slips,
Five things observe with care
OF whom you speak, TO whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where,
$50 lest be inclined
To render i'll for ill,
Hcnceforth in me instil,
O, God, a sweet goodwill
To all mankind"
The only way to be sure you new
CT will tell anything to your own
disadvantage, is to know nothing to
your own disadvantage.
An old Spanish writer says: ITO
return evil for good is devilish; to
return good for good is human; but
to return good for evil is GOd-like."
How great a blessing it is to so
hold the gifts of the soul that they
will be music to some and fragrance
TO others.
Byron thus invokes Hope:
"Be thou the rainbow to the storms OF life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds
away,
And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray;
An anxious, restless temper that
runs to meet care on its way, that
regrets lost opportunities too much,
should not be INDUCED in.
Beauty is blessing TO the fair,
vet such blessing, as if the soul
answers not to the face, may lead to
curse.
Truth is the only lasting founda-
ton for friendship; in everything
but truth there is principle of de-
cay and discrimination.
Wit must grow like fingers; if il
be taken from others, is like plums
stuck upon black thorns-they live
for while, but are good for nothing.
Just as the sorrows of Christians
have been great and bitter, so do
their ioys become sweeter, loftier,
more reviving and more powerful
Men need not only conversion but
steady confirmation of their faith,
their hope, their love, and in all
their duties.
The storms which agitate the
lower world may blow around OF
beneath the Christian, but they
touch him not.
True enthusiasm is n mixture OF
admiration and love, directed to
what is good and beautiful; it is an
active, all-conquering sentiment.
Whatever gives to man an,intelli-
gent and cheerful view of death,
and whatever prepares him to meet
il with triumph, is matterot infinite
moment TO him.
Though sometimes small evils like
invisible insects inflict great pain
and a single hair stops a vast ma.
chine, vet the chief secret of com.
fort lies in not suffering trifes to
veX us.
Industry is the sturdy and hard
working pioneer, who, by perSever-
ing labor, removes distractions
oVercomes difficulties, clears intri.
caeies, and thus facilitates the march
and aids the victories of genius.
Because we cannot comprehend
the length and breadth, the height
and depth of the Bible, is it there.
fore contrary to our reason! Nay
il is only above our reason.
Christianity, that is the religion
nf Christ in the soul, has power tC
lift men up out of their low, despair
inc condition, and put songs of JOY
and triumph upon their lips.
The restoration of many in a state
of estrangement, anarchy, or mora
death, we are taught i'll the sacred
writings to refer to power from
without the mind--an influence di.
richly from God.
oh, Christian man or woman
weak and trembling in yourself
but strong in the Lord and in the
mower of Els might-what a form
of expression that is: ''Be strong IL
the Lord and in the power of His
might"
The last best fruit which comes
10 late perfection, even in the kind.
lest soul is tenderness to the hard,
t,rbearance toward the unforbear-
inc. warmth of heart toward the
coid, aud philanthropy toward the
urisanthropic.a
1t is not great battles alone thai
buiId the worlds history, nor great
,,oems that made the generations
ROW. There is still, small rain
rom heaven that has more to dc
With the blessedness of nature and
If human nature than the mightiest
earthquake or the loveliest rainbow
The contemplation of the attri.
butes of Deity, is well calculated to
raise the mind to the fields in which
words on worlds compose one
universe and to that Mind which
bade them move in their appointed
orbits, and maintains them in unde