Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-10


Franklin said: Time is an herb
that cures all diseases.
Better to make penitents by gem
tleness than hypocrites by severity.
Jean Paul says: "Graves arc but
the footprints of the angels of life.
George Elliott says: No man can
be wise on an empty stomach.
1t is appointed unto man once to
die, and after death the judgment.
All is well with him who is be-
loved by his neighbors.
Milton says: ''The hearts Of men
are their eloquence.
Weakness is more opposed to vir-
tue than vice itself.
a handful of good life is better
than bushel of learning.
He goes long bare-footed who
waits for dead mans shoes.
Keep your own secrets if you
would have them well kept.
Always speak the truth, if you
speak at all.
Live up to your engagements, if
you make them.
None think of the great unhappy,
but the great.
Habit, if not resisted, soon be-
comes a necessity.
Not long day, but a willing
heart and ready hand, hastens work.
The great secret of human sue
cess is to attend to your own BUSH
ness.
War, is signitican defined by
an observing man, to be ''murder
set to music"
fyou would know the strength
of any evil habit, make the effort TO
abandon it.
Between the business of life and
the day of death space ought to be
interpOsed.
The chinese, with good deal Of
sarcasm, call ceremony the smoke
of friendship.
Actions that express good will to
mankind in the highest degree, have
tho highest merit.
Stern, steady labor is the price of
success, and it cannot, ordinarily be
had upon any other terms.
Seek first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness and all good
things shall be added
Lander says: 1t is easy to look
down ON others, to look down on
ourselves is the difficulty.
When Goeth was asked the secret
of success, he defined 1t as ga wise
limitation"
Howell thus describes a secret: 1t
is too little for one, enough for two,
and too much for three.
Look well TO the past; study it
closely, if you would divine the fu-
ture.
None ever knew what friends
were worth until they had lived
without them.
Lies often act as hillless swords.
they often cut the hands that WELD
them.
Hume says that all power. even
the most despotie, rests ultimately
on opinion.
In this world there are no emo
ton higher than the Sc of friendship.
except 4 mother'sslsve.
No man is humble and sincere
with God till he is willing to know
the worst of himself.
Alas! instead of being the temple
of Gods praise, how many are but
graves of Gods benefits.
xiuSl words are as refreshing 10
the buA'dened heart as rain to the
parched ground.
Do noble deeds, and pity the
minds that would ridicule what thev
dare not perform.
Pride can grow as well upon our
virtues as our vices, and steals up
ON us on all occasions.
'EBctter," says the wise man. lis
o dinner of herbs, where love is.
than stalled OK, and hatred there
with.
Social science is described bv a
sensible writer, to be, political econ
omy without a soul, instead of an
arithmetic.
Gold is worse than poison IA
mems souls, doing more murders in
this loathsome world than any NOR
tai drug.
The youth who can sheer at ex-
allied virtue, need not wait for age
and experience to become consum-
mate knave.
IL IL heaven OH earth TO have a
mans mind move in charity, rest in
providence, and turn on the poles
of truth.
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in
character; and il il be not firmly
laid in youth, there viii ALWAYS he
a weak spot in the character.
Talent and genius must go hand
in hand. Birds rise not By wing
feathers alone. hut by those with
which they guide their fight.
Some people are always Dragging
of their ancestors, and their great
descent, when the fact is their gredt
descent is what's the matter with
them.
The smallest and slightest impede !
ments are the most piercing and as
little letters most tire our eyes, so
does little affairs most disturb US.
Allegories when well chosen. are
so many tracks of light in a dis |
course, that makes every thing |
about them clear and beautiful.
The excellence of aphorisms con- /
sists not so much in the impression 4
OF some rare or abstruse sentiment, /
as in the comprehension of some /
useful truth in few words.
Our common nature is unfolded |
ia unbouuded adversitics. 1t is
rich enough for infinite manifesto
ions, aud TO wear innnmerabie
forms of beauty and glory.
This whole life is but one great
school. From the cradle TO the
rrave we are scholars. The voices
II those we love, aud the wisdom of
past ages, and our experience, are
,ur teachers. Affections give us
discipline. The spirits of departed
iaints whisper to us-"come up