Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-28
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Conscience warns as as a friend
before it Furnishes us as judge.
Silence is the best remedy for an
ger. If you say nothing, you will /
have nothing TO unsay.
The mind Of man is doubtless the /
noblest work of God which he has /
subjected 10 our inspection.
A profession OF religion without |
purity, is like fair glove drawn
over foul hand.
The true Christian is always ten
der, placable and humane toward
mankind.
Honor, when vitalized by chris
tisnty, makes the highest order
man.
Human nature Is too strong for
any power but Gods. Hence, grace;
hence the Bible.
The greatest, safest and steadiest
power In human hearts, is sense
of duty.
The praises of others may be OF
but what we ought to be.
Let men laugh when you sacrifice
desire to duty; if they will, you
have time and sterityto rejoice in.
A loving fear and faith toward
God is the foundation of all that is
worth calling happiness in this
world.
A righteous life is crown of glO-
ny TO old age; while the reprObate
life is the ruin of the old and hard
ened sinner.
The three things most difficult
are, TO keep secret, to forget an
injury, and 10 make good use of leis-
ure.
BE not the first 70 break with a
friend. Sorrow gnaws the heart
that hath no one 10 advise with but
himself.
Few things are impracticable in
themselves, aud il is for what of APP
plcation, rather than of means, that
men fail Of success.
True religion shows its influence
in every part Of our conduct; it is
like the sap of a living tree, which
penetrates the most distant boughs.
The premises of salvation are not
given to the strength of faith, bun
to the truth of faith; not to the de-
grees of faith, but to its reality.
Good sense should be the judge Of
both ancient and modern rules; CIV
cry thing that does not conform Il
ID is false.
Religion in the soul is like waite
in the fountain, odor in the rose
and sunshine in tho sun; diffusive
dispensing without impoverishing
The roal Christian life is tn
brightest and noblest thing bcneatl
the skies; but we poison it wit
many false fears, and by many inf
delities to faith.
There never did, and never Wi
exist anything permanently nobl
and excellent IN any one who is
stranger to the exercise of resolut
self denial.
There are three kinds of men
the world-the wills, the wonts an
the cants The former effect every
thing, the second oppose everything
and the last fail in everything.
Fame is an undertaken that pay
but little attention to the living
but bedizzeDs the dead, furnishe
their funerals, and follows them
the grave.
Such as our actions are, such wi
our habits become. Actions, Their
- - ha T1nct di1InAnflW n
tended to; and it is not matter
from our youth,
Cicero says: 1t is mans dishol
estv, his crimes, his wickedness, b
audacity, that takes away from hi
sounduess of mind; these are the f
ries, these the fre-brands and Il
flames of the wicked.
Get the truth once uttered.
And 'tis like star new bern
That drops into its place
And which once ciroling In its pla'
round,
Not all hotumult of the earth can shall
Every man deems that he has pT
cisely the trials and temptatio
which are the hardest for him
bear; but they are so because tn
are the very ones he needs.
False happiness renders men ste
and proud, and that happiness
never communicated. True hap
ness renders them kind and sensib
and that happiness is always share
Marriage is altogether too N
mentous a matter to be decided L
on precipitately. Better never IN,
ry than to marry a person wi
whom ii is not morally certain Il
you can live happily.
Men are sometimes said not
know their own weakness; yet p
haps few know their own strcng
IL is with men as in soils, wh'
sometimes there is a vein of 9,
which the owner knows not Of.
II is not isolated great deeds viii
do most to form character,
small conterminous acts, touchi
and blending into one another. 1
0reenness of field comes not FRI
trees, but blades of grass.
OF permanent griefs there
none, for they are but clouds. 1
SWlltCI AAON AAQNS NhAOh3A AnI -
the more follow after them; a
even the immovable ones are abso
I'D by the others, and become smi
err till they vanish.
To the same degree that holm
is beneficial and lovely, sin is p
nicious and detestable. 1t is
essential malignity aud i'll desc
and will, sooner or later, be seen
all to be the greatest evil with VIII
our nature can be afflicted.
Should the strictest justice
raipn me, and the purest holm
make its demands upon me, | rel
tbenl TO my dying Emanuel. w
him the Father is always well pie
Id ana in him The believer star
complete,
10 the eve of clown 8 pla
annears but twinkling star,
II he looked through a telesco
and were able to calculate, he wo
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