Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-07
Orient Pearls at Random Strung

IL is a good thing TO believe; it is
n good thing to admire.
A failure in good cause is better
than triumph in bad one.
Surely people must know them
selves, so few ever think of anything
else.
The craving for sympathy is the
common boundary line between joy
and sorrow.
Love and friendship mix like two
takes away the name of the other.
Man being spiritually active, must
find in activity his joy, as well as his
beauty and glory.
The test OF a mans honesty is in
the sacrifices he will make to pre-
serve it.
Evil is wrought by want of
thought, as well as by want Of
heart.
After all, what we take out Of life
depends upon how we communicate
with life.
Social science is political econo-
my, with soul instead of an arith-
metic.
Whitfield said: think it is best
not to dispute where there is no
probability of convincing.
The true glory of nation is the
full recognition of the rights of the
working people.SThey are the basis
of all its wealth and prosperity.
What a glorious thing for the hui
man heart is occupation. Those
who work hard seldom yield to fan
cied or real sorrow.
Though a state of pleasure may
quicken the relish of life, an I'M
restrained indulgence leads to inev-
liable destruction.
There are many people who not
only believe that this world reVolves
on its axis, but they believe they arc
the axis.
The reason why people know not
their duty on great occasions, is that
they will not take the trouble TO do
their duty on little occasions.
To harmonic discordant natures,
and out of discordant individuals to
develop happy home, is one ofthe
greatest triumphs that woman can
achieve.
Those who have resources within
themselves, who can dare to live a.
lone, want friends the least, but, at
the same time, best know how to
prize them.
There is subtlety of perception
in real attachment, even when ii is
borne towards man by one of the
lower animals, which leaves the
highest intellect behind.
The pleasures of anticipation, i'm
agination, and hope are the sunshine
of life, but the rough weather of
disappointment often docs man the
most good.
Every process in nature is going
forth of the Everlasting ON his mes
sages of love; and any event in our
experience is a message of love full
filled.
Education cannot create; it can
only help to develop to reality the
previously existing possibility; it
can only help to bring to light the
hidden life.
Poetry has been to me its own ex-
ceeding great reward; it has given
me the habit of wishing to discover
the good and beautiful in all that
meets and surrounds me.
H,;oc oc,o. ali :, L., . z.1esL
feeling; and most selfish is the man
whoyields himself to the indulgence
of any passion which brings no joy
10 his fellow man.
The world is governed by three
things-wisdom, authority and APP
pcarancc. Wisdom is for thought
full people, authority for rough peo-
pie, and appearance for superficial
people.
Witty sayings are as easily lost as
the pearls slipping off n broken
string; but word of kindness is
seldom spoken in vain. 1t is a seed
which, even when dropped by
chance, springs up flower.
Corruption among those whose du-
ty it is to watch over the safety and
interests of the community, are pro-
ductive of far greater evils than
any other crime or extravaganza can
give rise to.
Every good brings its pleasure to
the mind of him who performs it.
This is the law of moral and social
life. Why then should we not
study our happiness in being just
and good?
Ofall the disagreeable habits the
world was ever tormented with,
scolding is the most annoying. To
hear a saw filed, to hear peacock
scream, or an Indian yell, is music
compared with it.
Fine sensibilities are like wood
bines, delightful luxuries of beauty
to Irvine around a solid, upright
stem Of understanding; but very
poor things il allowed to creep along
the ground.
When grief sits down, folds its
hands, and mourAfully feeds upon
its own fears, weaving the slim
shadow that little eXertion might
sweep away, into n funeral pail, the
strong spirit is shOrn of its might.
and sorrow becomes our master.
To think of the infinite, say some,
limits il; therefore we must ignore
the infinite. When | look on the
sea, | limit it on my side, but only
on my side. On its own side il il is
TO my view, boundless; and mans
spirit can so stand on the shore of
the absolute.
The winds and the storms of
earth, while often very destructive
OF animal and vegetable life, are,
nevertheless the agents of great good
in purifying the atmosphere and
rendering human life more secure.
We love to think of the mighty
operation by the hand of God going
on ceaselessly for the good of man,
and the mass of living things on
earth, when we are passive and
powerless.
When trouble flows upon you,
dark and heavy, toll not with the
waves, and wrestle not with the tor
rent: but seek rather bv occupation
TO divert the dark waters that
threaten 10 oyerwhelm you with
thousand channels, which the du-
ties of life always present.
A curious writer says, by way OF
comparison: "A man is blind as "A
bat, bold Us lion, cunning as fox,
cross as a bear, fierce as tiger, busy
rs a bee, large as all elephant, proud
as "A peacock, slow as snail, tame
as a sheep, timid as hare, true as
dog, wise as serpent, harmless as
"A dove.
By continually looking upwards,
our minds will themselves grow