Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-07-27


Those who live for something
usually find something to live for.
When sorrows come, they come
not single spies, butin battallions.
Abstinence, in itself, is a great
virtue.
No man is free who cannot COM
mand himself.
Religion maintains a livining in
fuence in the heart.
Insincerity of speech is the prime
material Of insincere action.
The duty Of the happy is to help
the suffering TO bear their woe.
There cannot be a christian whose
light in some aspect does not shine.
Have courage to confess your ig-
norance and aWkwardness.
Confide your faith and follies to
but few.
When you need friends is the
time to find out ifyou have any.
Say less than you think, rather
than only half what you say.
Flatterers are most easily duped
by fatterers.
Good manners is the art of ma
king those people easy with whom
we converse.
Whoever makes the fewest per-
sons uneasy is the best bred man in
the company.
Great talents for conversation
should be accompanied by great po-
likeness.
The modest man will not parade
his own excellence lest he should
offend.
Be always frank and true; spurn
every sort of affecation and dis
guise.
A secret has been truly. defined to
be something. made known to
everybody in whisper"
We all have a direct relation to-
wards God, and cannot in any way
avoid its responsibility.
To be happy we must be true to
Nature, and carry our age along
with US.
Old age is tyrant, which forbids
the pleasures of youth on pain OF
death.
Against disease, the very best de-
tense, is the defensive virtue, absti-
nence.
When the sword is ready to
peiIce you, still hope in Gods saw
ing grace.
The most dangerous flattery il
that which exhales from the presence
Of interiors.
The dwarf is a dwarf, though on
hill; the colossus preserves its size,
though in valley.
There is much folly which is well
expressed; as there are many fools
who are well clothed.
The spirit of contradiction is Q
great fault in character; it never
finds favor in society.
1t is only great souls that know
how much glory there is in being
good.
There never was any heart truly
great and gracious that was not al
so tender and compassionate.
Life is like wine; he who woul,
think it pure, must not drain il {,
the dregs.
The only vice that cannot be for
given is hypocrisy. The repentance
OF hypocritis itselfhypocrisy.
God has so made the mind of ma
that peculiar deliciousness reside
in the fruit of personal industry.
A man must be morally health,
before he can be holy. We bath
first, and then perfume.
Often do we think when we ough
TO act, and act when IL behooves u
to reflect; hence caution is frequent
ly as fatal as rashness.
fla cause be good, the most vic
lent attacks OF its enemies will NO
injure it so much as. an middleton
defense of it by its friends.
Some professors of religion al
much more ready to fight for Chri!
tianity than they are to live accorC
ing to its precepts.
a man that hath anything in ia
world so dear to him that he car
not spare it for Christ if he calls fC
it, is no true Christian.
He that has inherited the love {
God, what has the world more
give him? He has the chief thin
already.
Joubert says: 1t is impossible I
speak against Christianity withOu
anger, nor to speak for It withol
love.
Prayer is the peace of our spirit
the stiffness of our thoughts, Il
rest of our cares, the calm of OF
transports.
Whateiy says ''It is one think (
wish to have truth on our side an
another to wish to be on the side
truth.
In this world there. is little to su
pass and not much to equal q
pleasure and profit of moral and r.
raj amusement.
God never fails, never change
and we have only to depart fro
iniquity, and cling to him. We a
to do what is right, and following
diligently, leave results to him.
The true child of God, as
trudges through life may conso
himself with the reelection that
'EWhere'er we rest or roam
Nightly we pitch our wOoing tent
a days march nearer home.
To diffnse knowledge is quite
important as to increase it. To d
this we must be thorough witho
being incomprehensible, and east
understood without being super
cial.
One of the saddest things abor
human nature is, that a man m,
guide others in the path of Ii
without walking in it himself; tn
he may be q pilot, yet cast-a-wa
A maxim is the exact and mol
expression of an important and i
disputable truth. Sound maxiI
are the germs of thought; strong
imprinted on the memory tn
nourish the will.
L. L