Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-26
Orient Pearls at Random Strung

Orient Pearls at Random Strung, |
The great art of life is to play for
much, and stake little.
A splendid toilet is an altar erect
ed by selE-love to vanity.
Moonlight is described to be
merely the beautiful old age of day.
AIodesty is beautiful flower that
flourishes In secret places.
An old maxim is that religion
will cost us something, but the
want of 1t infinitely more.
He who will not take cheap adj
vice will have to bear dear repent
ance.
The loaded tree always bends with
its fruit, as virtue stoops beneath
humility.
1t is a difficult thing to blind jeal-
ousy, where there is any just cause
for suspicion.
Peace is the evening star of the
soul, as virtue is its sun, and the
two are never far apart.
Dress, like writing, should never
appear to be the effect of too much
study and application.
without earnest convictions, no
great or sound literature is conceiv-
able-says Lowell.
Solitude is needful for the imagi-
nation, as society is wholesome for
the character.
Julius Cesar says: lie that Lives
in fear of death, every moment feels
its tortures. / will die but once.
The wealth of a soul is measured
by how much it can feel; its poverty
how little.
Love coming into w0man's ma
ture Is like the last stroke of the ar
lists pencil to the landscape.
To seek redress of grievances by
going to law is like sheep running
for shelter to bramble bush.
Beecher says: The infinite and the
eternal arc words without meaning
till grief interprets them.
Each departed friend is a magnet
that attracts US TO the next world,
and the old man lives among graves.
Ia order to force mankind to turn
their eyes to Him, God willed that
no object should contain within it,
self the first cause or existence.
Men talk about the idle wind, but
t. 4
cheerful farmer, whistles at its
work.
The man who has good health and
good sense, and is able and willing
to work, need fear nothing in this
world.
A Christian is Gods gentleman;
gentleman in the vulgar, superb
cial way of understanding the word
is the DEVILS christian.
God is beautifully described as
He
"whose creating hand 40
Nothing imperfect or deficient lett
OF all that he Created rs,
Give grief little time and it soE
tens to regret, and grows beauti.
Iul at last, and we cherish it as we
do some old picture of the dead.
With every one the expectation o.
a misfortune constitutes a dreadful
presentment. Suffering then as.
sumes the proportions Of the un
known, whieh is the SOUPS infinite.
Steele says: 1t is certainly a yer,
important lesson to learn how 4
enjoy ordinary things, and to be a
BILE to relish your being without tn,
transport of some passion or gratifi
cation of some appetite.
God always proceeds orderly; CIV
erything there is q season and time
he never sends an unseasonabl
trouble, nor an unsuitable mercy
trials and comforts are always we
timed.
''No, Cathsrine," said Patrick {
his wife, "you never catch false
hood coming out of my mouth. -
"You may well say that" reptile
Kate; "they fly out so fast that nc
body can catch EN-"
Breyere says: When a book raise
your spirits, and inspires you will
noble and courageous feelings, see
for no other rule to judge the worl
by: it is good, and made by a goo
workman.
The interior life of every man an
every woman who rises above tn
common level is distinguished b
the love of excellence for its ow
sake, the quenchless aspiration t
do better and better until their pei
Torrance reaches the unattainabl
ideal.
Among the gifts which have bee
made to humanity, none, in the low
er sphere of virtues, should ca
forth our thankfulness more tina
the gifts OF cheerfulness, and W!
and hamor. They civilize life.-
They carry with them perpetui
blessing.
Beecher says: Men think God
destroying them because he is tuI
inc them. The violinist screws u
the key till the tense cords SCUM
tho concert PITCH. but il is not I
break IL, but TO use tuneiully, TIA
he stretches the string upon the mt
steal rack.
Ii we were asked to sum up in on
simple rule what would most col
duce to beauty in the human fac
we should say:-"Never tampG
with your smile; never once use
for an unworthy purpose. Let it b
on your face like the reflection {
sunlight on lake. But unlike III
sunlight, your good will.
Study to attain holy simplicit,
look straight before you, and do NJ
dwell upon all those dangers whic
YOU tell me you foresee. You tab
them for armies, and they are on
willow trees, but all the same, yo
may easily stumble while you al
gazing upon them.
When we read the Bible we mu
always remember, that, like the no
waters. seen by Ezekie., it is,
some places, up TO the ankles;
others, up to the knees; in other
mn to the loins; and in some, riv'
100 deep to be fathomed, and thi
cannot be passed over, There
light enough to guide the humb
and teachable to heaven, and obscI
rity enough to confound the unb
lever.