Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-15
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are practiced.
Men may go to perdition with
their heads full of truth.
Riches are not among the number
OF things that are good.
1t is not poverty that causes sor-
row, but covetous desires.
Deliver yourself from appetite
and you will be free.
You must not be afraid Of work
if you wish health and wealth.
Chastise your passions. that they
may not chastise you.
No chain is stronger than the
weakest link in it.
lie who foresees calamities, suf-
fers them twice over.
Branches may be trained, but not
the trunk.
IL is better to be envied than to
be pitied.
Wise sayings often fall to the
ground, but Kind words never die.
IL Jesus had bis body broken for
me, let my heart break for him.
If you would create something
yon must do something.
Selhshness is a devil that wears a
hundred DISCUSSES, and often looks
as white as an angel Of light.
The purest joys OF earth are like
those eastern birds whose beauty is
in their wings-they fly away.
Duties fulfilled are stiII recognized
as debt, for wholly enough is new
er done.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and
leave others TO talk Of YOU as they
please.
Every base occupation makes one
sharp in its practice, and duh ia ev-
cry other.
We cannot control the evil tongues
of others, but a good life enables as
TO despise them.
The English laws punish vice; the
Chinese laws do more-they reward
virtue.
Tho true is godlike; il does not
appear directly, but must be guessed
at from its manifestations.
Love that has nothing but beauty
TO keep 1t IN good health, is short
lived and apt to have ague fits.
IL is one of the beautiful compensa-
tions of this life that no one can sim
cerely try to help another, without
thereby helping himself
IL man is naturally slothful, he
always interprets Providence in ia
vor of taking his own ease, and do
ing as little he can.
81 am on the bright side of seven
ty," said an aged man of God, "the
bright side, because nearer to ever
lasting glory.
IL man Is sclf-seeking and ambi-
tious, he likes to fatte- himself that
he is working for God, when he is
only working for human applause.
To hold the truth and fight for it
is one thing; TO be sanetitied through
il is another, and quite different
thing.
Happy is he who knows how TO
place the lamp of the past so that
its beams shall light up the future
course. frr- -, r--..---.
There is no approbativeness in
Nature. She has no eye cut for
spectators, and no sense of the eff
feet she produces on the beholders,
Do not be above your business
lie who turns up his nose at his
work, qurrels with his bread and
butter.
No one who is lover of money,
a lover of pleasure, or a lover OF
glory, is likewise a lover of man
kind. fs, Al ed
Every murmur is murderer; he
Kills many at once namely, his joy,
his comfort, his peace, his rest, his
soul.
OF dead christian it has been
said:
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to
weep.
Said the good Countess of Bies-
singtOn, in her eighty-fourth year,
my work is done. l have nothing
to do but to go to my Father"
II believe in God" Beautiful,
praIsewOrthy words; but to recog-
Mise God when and wherever he
may disclose himself, is true bles-
sedness on earth.
Sorrow is kind of rest to the
soul which every new idea contrib
utes in its passage, to scour away.
IL is the putrefaction of stagnant
life, aud is remedied by exercise
and motion.
Mature fails" said an eminent
christian, "but | am happy"
An inspired poet says
God, in the Gospel OF his son,
Has ali his mightiest works out
DONE"
To an humble christian il was re-
marked, II fear you are near anoth-
err world" '.Fear il STRIP he re-
piled, Il know l am; but blessed be
the Lord! l do not fear it, | nope it. +"
Every parent is like looking
glass for his children TO dress them
selves by. Therefore, parents should
take care 10 keep the glass bright
and clear, and not duh and spotted,
as their good example is a rich in
heritance Tor the rising generation.
In the Bible aud elsewhere, life is
represented by the sea. Sometimes
IL Is smooth aud pleasant, and pas
sing over it, there is hardly sug-
mestion OF danger. Again il IS
rough and tempes uous, when rock
cd Jared audi sickened, we fear di-
sasier. tits a comfort 10 the Chris
tian 10 know that, whether the sea
be smooth orrough, Christ is aboard,
and that he will not fail TO bring his
people safely 10 tho desired haven
il is unbelief which Will ask, either
in word or thought, "Master, carest
Thou not that we perish"
ueFayoritism is nothing more than
an exercise of faith. The favorite
does not exhibit the qualities of
character which we especially ap-
nrove of. bat somehow or other he
coIIs out our faith, and makes us be-
lieve that there is talent in him, the
nature which we should most ad-
mire. And we are rather proud of
our supposed discovery, and of the
Yigor of our faith.