Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-01
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Real religion is Hriag principle
in the heart.
The price OF the grace of God is
above pearls and Tubics.
To be good critic requires more
good sense and sound judgment
than most men possess.
Goethe says: He is the happiest,
be he King or peasant, who finds
peace in his home.
Never mind achere you work; care
more hOt0 you work. Never mind
who sees, il God approves.
No man is a better merchant than
he who lays out his time upon God,
and his money upon the poor.
Who was Paul, and who was
Apollos, but servants, by whom
God wrought, and men believed?
Shut not up brood of evil pas
sions in yeur bosom; like enraged
serpents, they will bite their cage.
The three hardest words for a
man to pronounce areA'T was mis-
taken"
A wise man feareth, and depart
eth from evil; but fool rageth, and
is confident.
A soft answer turncth away
wrath; but gricvous words stir up
anger.
A wholesome tongue is tree of
life; but perverssness therein is a
breach of the spirit.
The preparations of the heart in
man, and the answer of the tongue,
is from the Lord.
Let bear robbed of her whelps
meet man, rather than n tool in his
folly.
A false witness shall not be un-
punished; and he that speaketh lies
shall not escape.
In following a multitude, there is
always moro or less directly i'm
piled, notion of safety.
When we behold a fair building,
we conclude it had an architect
God is the architect Of the world.
A fool in high station is like a
man on top of high mountain, ev-
cry thing appears small to him, and
he appears small to every body.
Experience is the common school
house of fools and i'll men. Men of
wit and honesty will be otherwise
instructed.
Mind is the source of all that is
great and beautiful, and mind is the
proper subject of beauty and gran
deur.
There cannot be a surer proof Of
an innate meanness of disposition
than to be always talking and think
ing of being genteel.
Men will never know Us By our
faith, for that is within us; they
know us by cur works, which are
visible TO them.
The Bible may be undervaIued by
the prosperous and the gay; but TO
the afflicted, it is the balm for every
woe.
Wit is bruShwood; judgment is
temoer. The first makes the bright.
est flame, but the other gives the
most lasting heat.
The apprehended terrors of death
are less, that the loftiest intellect
must submit; and because we have
a brother or sister before us in the
unseen, mystic world.
Speaking truth is like writing
fair, and comes only by practice; il
is less n matter of will than of hab
it; and doubt if any occasion cal
be trivial which permits the prac
tice and formation of such habits.
May God, who commanded Oh,
light to shine out of darkness, shine
in our hearts, and give us the ligh
OF the knowledge of the glory o
God, in the face OF Jesus Christ. .
Remember that every person
however humble, has rights aud feel
ings. In all contentious, let peac,
be rather your object than triumph
value triumph only as the means o
peace.
Few objects are more nearly al
lied than vulgarity and aflectation
1t may truly be said of them, tina
thin partitions do their bounds
divide"
Paul planted by his learning, ant
Apollos watered by his eloquence
but God gave the increase; and I,
Him give all the glory of mans sal
walton.
That men do things against thei
cOnsciences is no otherwise than a
they do things against their reason
hut a man may as well cease to be
man, as TO be wholly without con
science.
Ferdinand, King of Spain, use,
To say that he could distinguish
wise man from fool by the follow
ing marks: Moderation in anger
government in household affair.
aud writing letter without use
less rcpctitions.
The belief that guardian spirit
hover around the paths OF men. GOV
Crs a mighty truth; Tor every beau
uiut, amt pure, and good though
which the heart holds, is au angel 81
mercy, purifying and Tuarliu. IA
soul.
We are An obliged Ia love hcav,
for Chri.tS sake. lie grMeih hca,
on aud all his fathers house with hi
presence. He Is rose that hcauti
meth all the Upper Garden OF God
leaf OF that rose OF God tor sine
i worth a world.
Il 20 to prepare Il place for you.
There will be adaptedncSs 10 on
tastes, our characters, our conduC
our connections, our future occupa
tions. Il prepare place Tor YOU;
who, rs a man, know and appreciat
all your feelings and wishes Iii
eve is on us while he is preparin
our place for u.
As a man on bridge waiting fC
his friend pluck a handful of wceG
and flowers, aud in the caprice ,
impatisnCe. drops another and ~
other into the Hood beneath. Will
out discrimination and without p,
spect to the beautiful above a.
mean, TO the budding sprig mon
than TO the decaying stalk. iutcI
only to mark how they are bort
away 10y the current: 80 is The di
penSaiion OF death ever The childrC
OF men.
Gentility is neither in birth, ma
nor nor fashion, but in the mind.
A high sense OF honor, a determin
tion never to take mean adyanta.
of another, an adher nee to -trut
delicacy and politeness towar,
those with whom yon have de:
ings, are the essential characters
SOC IF n gentleman.