Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30
Oriental Pearls.

Religion on the tongue, and self in
the heart, is the way of the world.
Good will, Ike a good name, is got
by many actions, and lost by one.
We use riches as children use TOYS,
to amuse us till we fall asleep.
r. Ben Johnson says: We have many,
many acquaintance, but few friends.
He who follows truth carries his
star in his brain.
The virtues born of religion are
concealed in religion itself.
Love and observe religion; the rest
dies-it never dies.
Felthew says: Take heed to speedy
protesting friends; love is never last
ing that flames before it burns.
Only as the eye sweeps the horizon
of History do we discern the full pro-
portions of the age.
A man may conceal his name, his
age, the circumstances of his life, but
not his character.
Forget injuries and remember ben
Gifts; if you grant favor, forget it I;
If you receive one, remember it.
The vessels of mercy are seasoned
with affection, and then the wine of
glory is poured in.
Too many persons are far less
ashamed of having done wrong than
in being found out.
Christ, though he was rich, for our
sakes became poor; but unsanctified
man make others poor that they may
become rich.
When we read we fancy we could
be martyrs; when we come to act we
find we cannot bear a provoking
word.
Tribulation will not hurt you unless
it does-what, alas it too often does
unless it hardens you, and makes
you sour, and narrow, and skeptical.
Trials make our faith sublime,
Trials give new life to prayer;
Lift US TO a hOlier cline,
Make us strong TO do or bear.
In the glance of the eye, in the
tones of the voice, i'll mien, gesture
and voice, a man reveals his character
and he can't help it.
1t is not work that kills man it is
worry. 1t is not the revolution that
destroys the machinery, but the fric-
ton.
A house uninhabited soon comes to
ruin, and a soul uninhabited by the
Holy Spirit of God, verges faster and
faster to destruction.
Passion is a drunkenness of the
mind, and, therefore, in its present
workings, not always comfortable by
reason
1t is doubtful if any man could, by
possibility, do his noblest, or think
his deepest, without preparation of
suffering.
Tenacity of purpose is the indis-
pensable condition of success in
whatever you undertake You must
learn to hold fast to the truth.
It is not the hight to which men
are advanced that makes them giddy : !
it is the looking down with contempt
upon those beneath.
Jeremy Taylor says: He that does
a base thing in zeal for his friend,
burns the golden thread that ties
their hearts together.
Sidney Smith says: Life is to be
fortified by many friendships. To
love and be loved is the greatest hap
piness of existence.
Write your name with kindness.
love and mercy, on the hearts of the |
people you come in contact with, |
year by year, and it will never be
forgotten.
A mother has no right to bring ND
a daughter without teaching her how
to keep house, and if she has an in
telligent regard for her daughters |
happiness, will not do it.
There is no human duty SO lofty
and imperative as that of breakinS |
the entanglements of purely private
interests, pleasures and ambitions.
and taking up with brave and unseIf-
ish hearts the task of lettering the
world we live in.
Happy, indeed, is the man and
woman who learns the lesson of graft |
tude for daily blessings, for unbro-
ken sleep, for convenient food. for
the necessity of labor, for the discip-
line of sorrow, the enjoyment of ones
senses, for pure air and abundant
water, and is not envious or unhappy
because his brother commands some
thing he cannot enjoy.