Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-19
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The hrmest friend asks the fewest
favors.
Wisdom is always at home to
those who call.
OF the one hundred good thiBgs
in this life, ninety-nine are good
health.
To the contemplative soul there is
no littleness; the least of things is
infinite.
Whatever God gives men as step
ping-stones, they often convert into
stumbling-blocks.
He who cheerfully commits the
universe to God, has nothing in the
universe to fear.
To love and to labor is the sum Of
living, and yet how many think they
live, who neither labor nor love.
Sorrow is reigning on the throne
of the universe, and the crown Of
all crowns has been one of thorns.
Men may judge us by the success
of our efforts; God looks at the eff
forts themselves.
George Herbert says: A handful
of good life is worth a bushel of
learning.
The noblest question in the world
is, "what good may l do with it?"
Matthew Henry says: "IIope for
the best, get ready for the worst,
and then take what God sends.
Fear never was O friend to the
love of God or man, to duty or
conscience, truth, probity or honor.
Talent, of some sort, is in the
power of every man; genius is that
in whose power a man Is,
federation, says Coleridge, is inn
possible, till indifference makes it
worthless.
Good expands and wars with evil
all over the earth, first to contract
and imprison, and finally to des-
troy 1t.
A little word, act, or look, when
the heart is sore, fingers as over tho
fragrance of the rose long after the
vase is broken.
fla man speaks or acts with an
evil thought, pain follows him as
the wheel follows the foot of him
that draws the carriage.
The best rule under persecution
is, ifyou are made 10 suffer for reli-
gion, see that religion does not suf-
fer by you.
The essence Of true nobility is
neglect Of self. Let the thought OF
sell pass in, and the beauty of a
great action is gone like the bloom
from a sOiled flower.
An evil mind will be sure TO put
the worst construction on anoiher's
actions. But mind full of charity
will put on them the best construo-
ton they will bear
Keep your soul in am attitude of
heartfelt trust in God, and the more
you are eneompassed with troubles
and infirmities, hope the more stead
lastly in him.
God will excuse our prayers for
ourselves, whenever we are proven
ted from them by being occupied
by such good works as viii entitle
us to the prayers of others.
How easy il is 10 please and be
pleased, if one will take the fra
GRANGE of the rose instead of the
thorns, and hold the knife by the
handle and not By the blade.
One of the ancient fathers said
"a man should be prepared for
death the day before, but as he does
not know when that day is to be,
he should always be prepared.
If men would hate themselves az
they do their neighhors, itwollld
be a good step towards loving their
neighbors as they do themselves.
Those who depend on the merits
of their ancestors, are like those
who seek at the roots of the tree to
find the fruits which only the bran
ches can produce.
We sleep, but the loom of life
never stops; and the pattern which
was weaving when the sun went
down, will still be weaving when il
comes up tomorrow.
Let man take a telescope, anC
reverse il, and how far of things
seem and let a man reverse his
own nature and work through II
the wrong wayho-W impossible is
IL for him to see God
At tile last when we die we have
the good angels for our escort OF
the way. They who eau grasp the
whole world in their hands car
surely also guard our souls that iheS
make that last journey safely.
So live that death may never sur
prise thee unprepared. Happy the
man who constantly keeps the hour
of his death in view, aud every da,
prepares himself for il.
If you hate your enemies you will
contract such vicious habit of mint
assby degrees will break out upol
those who are your friends or thos,
who are Indifferent to you.
In all evils which admit of rem
edy, impatience should be avoided
because it wastes that time and at
tention in complaints, which If pro
perly applied, might remove tn
cause.
The fIost which nips the foliag,
OF the mulberry-tree, Kills not tn
silk worm Graded i'll its leaves; 81
Christian, calamity blights you
bowers or ease but IL cannot de-
stroy you.
The way to grow. strong in Chris
is TO become weak in yourself. Co
poureth no power into mans hear
till mans. power is all poured out
The Christians life is one of dali,
dependence upon the grace ant
strength of God.
They who act in the path of dut,
and depend on the power of God
are equally safe at ali times and I'm
der all circumstances; no less safe
when surrounded by enr4ged enc
mics, than when encircled by kim
and assiduous friends.
Making reflections on the faults o
othe,ss Is GENERALLY a lrnitless thing
:, ii ofteil attended with mistakes
Md involves men in sin. When W
mud n 30 hard TO amend oarseives
we may we.I esteem II an uuseemI,
thing with bitterness TO inveigl
AGAINST our brother.