Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-31
Orient Pearls at Random Strung

He who spends before he thrives
will beg before he thinks.
Wear your religion all the week,
and not as a Sunday cloak.
The highest rate of interest one
ever pays is for borrowed trouble.
The weak may be joked about any
thing but their weakness.
There is no worse death than ig-
norance of the truth.
There is no cloud so dark that
there is not light behind it.
Who lives for himself alone, lives
for a mean fellow.
The snow-drop is called the her
aid of the host of flowers.
An honest man is none the worse
because dog barks at him.
Only wise and good men can be
friends; others are but companions.
Tomorrow is the day on which
the idle men work, and fools reform.
The soft dews Of tears water and
ripen the blossoms of repentance.
Pleasant memory in old age is like
bird singing ON wiihered bough.
A veteran observer says: GLOW
much help lazy people want.
Where the will is ready, the feet
are light.
Virtue and happiness are mother
and daughter.
He that treats himself badly will
use no one well.
Evil pursueth sinners; but to the
righteous good shall be repaid.
Wine is a mocker -stronk drink
is raging.
lie that is soon angry dealeth
foolishly; and a man OF wicked de-
vices is hated.
The simple inherit folly; but the
prudent are crowned with knowl-
edge.
The evil bow before the good; and
the wicked ~ the gates of the
righteous.
lie that oppOseth the poor re-
proach his Make: but he that honor
eth him, hath mercy on the poor.
Commit thy works unto the Lord,
and thy thoughts shall be estab-
lishet
Lovc-lovo to God and love TO
man is tho fultiIment of the whole
law.
II little becomes the feeble tn be
unjust; Justice Is peculiarly the
shield OF the week.
Kind thoughts are the spice is
lauds of the spirit, making a mans
character breez with sweetness.
Curses are like overloaded mus.
kets, they injure the one who aims,
more than the one aimed at.
False friends are like our slad.
ows; they follow us only in sun
shine.
Pope says, San excuse is worse and
more terrible than n lie. for an cx.
cuse is lie guarded"
1t does not often pay to lose one.
temper--it's so hard TO get it bach
before some mischief is done.
Deceit is in the heart of them thai
imagine evil; but to the counsellors
of peace, is joy.
There shall no evil happen to thu
just; but the wicked shall be filled
with mischief.
In the way of Righteousness i,
life; and in the pathway thereo
there is no death.
Poverty and shame shall be tn hin
that refuseth instruction;but he tina
regardeth reproof shall be honored
A good man obtaineth favor of IN,
Lord; but man of wicked device
will he condemn.
A man shall be commended nc
cording TO his wisdom; hut he tina
IS of a perverse heart shall be de
spised.
A good man leaveth an inherit
ance to his children's children: anC
the wealth of the sinner is laid III
for the just.
Death is a ferry boat. Every da,
and every hour the boat pushes OF
with somebody, and then returns n,
more.
Ifyou forbid fool thing, tho
he want it not, yet that very thin,
he will have, though it work hin
an injury.
He who has not learned a resolut
self-help, has made little pro ores
as a student, has grown little TO
ward real manhood.
Goldsmith says: GAIL philosoph
is only forcing the trade of happi
ness, when nature seems to deny tn
means"
eff a man." says Dean Swift
makes me keep at distance. In
comfort is, he Keeps has at the sam
time"
There is a certain kind of ma
whom nobody is apt to know in ad
versity, and that is he who is S
proud that he never knows anybod
in prosperity.
1t is the energy of will that is tn
soul of intellect; wherever it il
there is life; where it is not all
dulness, dependency and desols
ton.
Man is the creature of intere.
and ambition. He turns with pleas
ure to the hustle and activity of lii
socks space in the worlds though
and dominion over his fellow men.
The soul finds its reflection in on
behavior, and we can read its incl
nation and disgust as legibly in on
actions, as physicians the state {
the body by feeling the pulse.
Though we seem to grieve at til
shortness of life in general, we al
wishing every period at an end
The minor longs to be of age; the
to be man of business, then I
make fortune, then to arrive
honors, then to retire.
Half the world refuses to do il
own thinking, to toll through I'll
solution of its own knotty prol
lems: hence half the world that wi
not do this must be subject to th
other half that viii.
The circumstances OF temper,
judgments are sometimes remark
bly, calculated to bring to the min
the crimes for which they are il
fiicted, and cause even the mo
careless to acknowledge the justiI
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