Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-12
Orient Pearls at Random Strung.

We possess only that which we |
comprehend.
We open the hearts Of others
when we open our own.
How poor are they who have
neither patience nor hope.
Facts are the ore, truth the met
al, and cant the scum.
Unshed tears are never wiped a.
way.
Troubles are in Gods catalogue
of mercies.
A life full of constant employ
ment is the only safe and happy one.
Nothing in the universe is abso-
lutely independent. No man liveth
or dieth to himself.
No one can pursue solid learning
and frivolous pleasure at the same
time.
The most efTectual way of con-
demning bad traits is in the practice
of good ones.
Love is omnipotent. IL will con-
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Cy has failed.
The reproaches of friend should
be strictly just, uttered in evident
kindness, and not tso frequent.
But few are born with talents that
excel; but all are born with enough
to live well, if they cultivate them.
There cannot be a greater treach-
cry than to raise confidence and
then betray it.
In character, in manner, in style,
in all things, the supreme excellence
is simplicity
Hannah Moore, who was a good
judge of human nature, said, if l
wished TO punish an enemy should
make him hate somebody.
A man who strives earnestly and
perseveringly to convince others, at
least convinces us that he is con-
WINGED himself.
There arc lying looks as we'll as
lying words, assembling smiles,
deceiving signs, and even lying 81
lence.
AS there is no prosperousIstate
of life without its calamities, so
there is no adversely without its
benefits.
A reading people will become a
thinking people, and then they are
capable Of becoming rational and
great people.
1t is a most mortifying reflection
for n man to consider what he has
done, compared with what he might
have done.
Nature makes us poor only when
we lack necessaries; but custom
gives the name of poverty to the
want of superfluities.
Young persons have need of
strong reins; they are sometimes
hard to be ruled, easy to be drawn
away, and apt to be deceived.
Wise men are instructed by rea-
son; men of less understanding by
experiences; the most ignorant by
necessity; and brutes by nature.
Whatever situation in life you
wish or propose for yourself, first
ACQUIRE clear and lucid idea of the
inconvenisnees attending it.
Every desire is a viper in a bo-
som, who, while he was chill, was
harmless but when warmth gave
him strength, exerted it IN poison.
True honor is that which refrains
to do in secret what it would not
do openly; and where other laws
are wanting, imposes law on
itself.
Let every man be occupied, and
occupied in the highest employment
of which his nature is capable, and
die with the consciousness that he
has done his best.
Gods words are like Gods world
varied, rich and beautiful; you
never know when you have ex-
hausted all its secrets. The Bible,
like nature, has something for every
class of mind. Look at the Bible in
new light, and straightway you
see some new charm.
Twist and turn the matter as men
may, there is no honesty in any
man who cannot pay his honest
debts, expanding three thousand
dollars per annum, when he only re-
ceives one half that sum for salary.
Have any wounded you with in
iuries, meet them with patience
Hasty words rankle the wound
cures it, and oblivion takes away
the scar.
Gceth said that certain poems are
like painted windows-EaZers from
the outside only see confused mass
es of colors and lines; you have to
go inside to see the meaning aud
the beauty.
Mems feelings are always purcst
and most glowing in the hours oil
meeting and farewell; like the gla.
ciers, which are transparent and
rosy-hued only at sunrise and sun.
set, but throughout the day gray
and cold.
If you cannot be h great river
bearing great vessels of blessings tC
the world, you can be a little spring
by the dusty wayside of life, sing,
ing merrily all day and all night
giving a cup of cold water to every
weary, thirsty one who passes by.
Habits influence the character
pretty much as Endorsements in,
fiuence a vessel, and whether they
speed us on the way of our wishes
or retard our progress, their power
is not less important because imper'
ceptible.
While the heather have their gods
of wisdom, gods of battle, gods oil
beauty, &c, they have no gods Of
holiness, nor are their sacred laws
holy laws. The nations worship
ping idols have no word in their
languages that means holy. The
very. idea comes to us through the
Bible.
There are cases in which a man
would be ashamed not to have been
imposed upon. There is a conf.
dence necessary to human inter
course, and without which men arc
often moro injured by their own
suspicious than they could De by the
per1idy of others.
Speak kindly in the mcrning il
Iiqhtens tie cares of the day, and
makes the household and all its
affairs move along smoothly Speak
kindly atnight, for it may be that,
before dawn, some loved one may
finish Isis or her space of life for this
world, and it will be too late to ask
forgiveness.