Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-06
Orient Pearls at Random Strung

Some men, like pictures, are litter
for corner than full light.
A woman who wants a charitable
heart, wants a pure mind.
Characters never change. Opin-
ions alter; characters are only de-
veloped.
It is position-says Montague
not possession, that renders us hap
Ply.
Dryden says: The secret pleasure
of a generous act is the great minds
great bride.
Christianity commands as TO pas,
by injuries; policy to let them pass
by US.
Minds of moderate calibre are too
apt to ignore everything that does
not come within their own range.
Judgment, firmness and courage
are necessary to secure success in
life.
The way to escape a fall is to fear
ones own weakness, and not go too
fast.
No manners are so fine as the most
awkward manifestation of goodwill
toward men.
Those days are lost in which we
do no good; those worse than lost
in which we do evil.
To seek the redress OF grievances
by going to law is like sheep run
ming for shelter to bramble bush.
The pleasantest things in the
world are pleasant thoughts; and
the greatest art in life is to have as
many as possible.
The difficulty in life is the same
as the difficulty in grammer- to
know when to make the exception
to the rules.
If mems statements corsd be relied
on, and men could trust each other,
what an impetus would be given to
the worlds progress.
Sense shines with a double lustre
when it is set in humility. An able
and yet an humble man is a jewel
worth a kingdom.
Let no young man expect success
or prosperity who disregards the
kind advice and pious instruction OF
his mother.
There il a purple half 10 a grape,
a mellow half to peach, and a sun
ny half to a man who is fortunate
enough to have a good wife.
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in
character, and if not firmly laid in
youth, there will always be a weak
spot in the character.
Extraordinary afllictions are not
always the punishment of extraor-
binary sins, but sometimes the trial
of extraordinary graces.
The grand constituents of health
and happiness, the cardinal things
upon which all things turn, are ex-
ercise for the body and occupation
for the mind.
A woman's heart is the only true
plato for mans likeness. An in
slant gives an impression that an
age of sorrow cannot change or eff
face.
In the whole compass of human be-
nevolence, there is nothing so grand,
so noble, so Christian, so truly God
like, as the work of evangelizing the
heather.
How simple it would be if a mans
word were as good as his bond; if
we never had to weigh it, and sift
it, and see one man and another,
and enquire about il, and find out
1 al
AS no man can tell where a shoe
pinches better than he who wears
il, so no man can tell q woman's dis
position better than he that hath
welded her.
The weather may be. dark and
rainy; very well - laugh between
the drops, and think oheerily of the
blue sky and sunshine that viii sure
ly come tomorrow.
He who forgets the fountains from
which he drank, and the trees under
whose shade he gamboled in the
DAYS of his youth, is a stranger to
the sweetest impressions of the hui
man heart.
With the prayer, "lead us not in
to temptation" on your lips, choose
for the right and God, though the
choice make you confront a solid
rock. God shall render the rock &C
cessible, and cover it with bright
greenness, and make it radiant with
howers.
There are some natures that are
acted upon by circumstances as the
EoIean harp is acted upon by the
1yinds-the music of their tempers
being constantly varied as they are
effected by the rude weather of
stormy fortune, or the softer, balm
Ter, and less disturbed atmosphere
of joy and gladness.