The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

That warmed her pallid finger in the sun.
| And had no garment but her loveliness.
-Alios Carr.
To HAVE fish at supper-Just drop
them line.
A wEnn-DREssED dog wears collar,
and pants IN the summer. 500
WHES does man have to keep his
word? When no one viii take it.
WITHOUT calmness it is utterly in
! possible TO show forth consistent action.
Mrs. PARTTSsToS, descanting on art,
called Michael Angelo ..one of the old
mastiAz.
What is the difference between fxed
stars and shooting stars The one are
suns, the other darters.
LET the philosophers say what they
viii, happiness is the elixer of life, that
makes US young in heart if not in per-
son.
WHEN noble life has prepared old
age at is not the decline that it recalls,
but the first days of Immortality
Madame de lStaeI.
The man who seeks one thing in life,
and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be done;
But he who seeks all things wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he
SONS,
A harvest of barren regrets Queen Meredith;
A KIND expression of countenance can
make the most homely pleasing; an
honest heart and friendly acts make
the dullest lovable.
LRT us make our account with the
actual rather than seek excuses for self
indulgence, in pensive preference of
something that might have been.-Afor-
ley.
How the poor child is worried on
whom but a little spark of vanity is dis
covered, and yet what a poor miserable
creature is the man who has no vanity.
Goethe.
"DoN'T worry yourself about my
going away, my darling. Absence, you
know, makes the heart grow fonder."
"Of somebody else," added the dar-
ling.
HOWEVER deeply the violet may be
hidden, its perfume betrays it, and leads
to it's discovery. It is the same with
woman, those only are neglected who
are not worth the trouble of seeking.
A CERTAIN periwig maker had for a
sign picture of Absaiom hanging from
the branches of tree by the hair of his
head, and underneath the following
couplet:
If Absalom hadn't worn his own hair,
He'd never been found hanging there.
THE great make MS feel, first of all,
the indifference of circumstances. They
call into activity the higher perceptions
and subdue the low habits of comfort
and luxury but the higher perceptions
/ find their objects everywhere only the
low habits need places and banquets.-
! Emerson.
A GREAT many people seem to miss
their vocation because their bodies do
not happen to fit their souls. This is
one of the advantages of middle age /;
people have got used to their bodies
and to their faults; they know how to
use them, to spare them, and they do
not expect too much.--1fiSs ThackeTV.
I AM not going to undervalue the
charm of wisdom, nor the majestic joy
which comes from loving principles of
right but if could only have one of
them, give me the Joy of the affections /;
my delight in others, theirs in me, the
Joy of delighting rather than the delight
of enjoying. Theodore Parker.
VoLrAIRE rated literature as it ought
to be rated, as below action not be-
cause written speech is less of a force
but because the speculation and criticism
of literature makes less demand than
the conduct of great affairs. on quail
ties that are rare in combination, on
stemper, foresight. strength of intelli-
gence and strength of charactsr.-MOT-
ley.
IT SEEMS to me that just because we
are intended, as long as we live, to be
in a state of intense moral effort, we are
not intended to be in intense physical
or intellectual effort. Our full ener-
gies are to be given to the souls work,
TO the great fight with the dragon, the
taking the kingdom of heaven by force.
But the body's work and the heads
work are to be done quietly, and COM
paratively without efFort.-R1tskjn.
SYDNEY SMITH gives an irresistible
account of Lord Dudley, whom he de
scibes as one of the most absent men he
ever met. One day he met me in the
street and invited me to meet myself.
Dine with me to-day, dine with me,
and will get Sydney Smith to meet
YOU" I admitted the temptation he
held out to me but said I was engaged
to meet him elsewhere. Another time,
on meeting me. he turned back, put his
arm through mine, muttering &C don't
mind walking with him little way.
I'll walk with him as far as the end of
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