The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08
BITS OF WISDOM.

The contented man Is never poor, the
discontented never rich.
NOTHING dies without in some way
leaving q trace of its existence.
THE worst men often give the best ad-
vice.-Baiteg.
FB1ENDsnP is the wine Of existanees
love, the dram drinking.
MoMESrs of triumph are not always
moments OF happiness. Eliis.
GET atop of your troubles, and then
they're half cured.-L. NJ. Aloots.
We do not count a mans years until
he has nothing else to count.-EmeT-
Scsl.
FLowERs are the sweetest things God
ever made and forgot to put a soul
with.
MEMORY is the only paradise from
which nothing can ever drive us.
Richter.
WoMAx's hopes are woven of sun
beams; shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot
II is not miserable to be bird he
only is miserable who cannot acquiesce
in his blindness with fortitude. Milton.
I've never any pity for conceited peo-
pie, because think they carry their
comfort about with them.-GeoTge
Eliot.
VINO can doubt that anything which
makes a man discontented with his
state, without giving him the certainty
of a better. is a curse?-G. r. r..
James.
THERE is something very sublime,
though very fanciful, in Plato's descrip-
ton of the Supreme Being, that truth
is his body, and light his shadow.
addison.
A COED citizen must know how to be
able to command and to obey he ought
also to know in what manner freeman
ought to govern and to be governed.
aristotle.
EXPERIMENTATION is not surrender
Of viii. The viii is never SO strong as
in giving up, for principle and the COM
mon veal, self-interest or sensual de-
Hght.-C. 4. Bartol.
THE golden moments in the stream of
life rush past us, and we sec nothing
but sand; the angels come to visit us,
and we only know them when they are
gone.-George Eliot.
I LIKE breakfast-time better than any
other moment in the day. No dust has
settled on ones mind then, and il pre-
sents clear mirror to tho rays of
George Eliot
BE is no common benefactor Who
rewdly gathers from the world man
fold literature its words of finest wit
and maturest wisdom for our entertain
ment, instruction, and inspiration.
THERE is power in the direct glance
of sincere and loving human soul,
which will do more to dissipate preiu-
dice and kindle charity than the most
elaborate George Eliot
HE who bids the law to be supreme
makes God supreme but he who en-
trusts man with supreme power gives it
to a wild beast-for such his appettieH
sometimes make him. aristotle.
THERE is no funeral so sad to follow
as the funeral of our own youth, which
we have been pampering with fond de-
sires, ambitious hopes, and all the
bright berries that hang in poisonous
clusters over the path Of life. LaHdoi'
ALL things are literally better, lowell
er, and more beloved for the imperfec-
tions that have been divinely appointed,
that the law of human life may be effort
and the law Of human judgment mercy.
Ruskin.
IT is precisely the proudest and most
obstinate men who are the most liable
10 shift their position and contradict
themselves everything is easier to
them than to face the simple fact that
they have been thoroughly defeated,
aud must begin life anew.-George
Eliot.
The strong emotions from which the
life of human being rsceives new
bias win their victory as the sea wins
his though their advance may be sure,
they will often, after n mightier wave
than usual, seen to roll back 20 far as
to lose all the ground hey had made
george Eliot
AFTER you are once awakened, be
sure TO use the first consciousness in
getting uron the floor. II you allow
yourself TO parley a singls moment,
sleep, like an armed man. viii probably
seize upon you, and your resolution is
gone. your hopes dashed and youI
habits destroyed.-Dr. Todd
LIFE has such hard conditions that
every dear and precious gift, every rare
virtue, every pleasant faculty, every
genial endowment, love, hope, Joy, wit,
sprightliness, bencvol n
times be put into the. crucible to distill
the one elixir-patience.-Gah HaHK
ton.
MEs in general are neither very good
nor very bad they arc simply naedi
ocre. have never closely examined
even the best without discovering fanlt'
and frailties invisible at first. hsvs
always in the end found among ths
worst, certain good elements and holding
points Of honesty. There are two men
in every man it Is childish to.see only
one; it is sad and unjust 10 look only
at the other DC Too4uevfSls.
A discussion in the National Con.
vention of friends, the other day. would
seem to indicate that even the Quaker
are beginning to yield 10 the Esprit o.
the age" One speaker advised tha
"the question Of dress should Be on
simply Of utility and convenience am
said, moreover. that "the przolioe 0
wearing the hat In meeting, which :,
long prevailed, was remarkable chief
for being q stupid violation Of sanitar.
iswP
THERE can be no ideal oonpanionshi
where time is not permitted to set hi
seal and harden his wax. Age is need
full 10 this Is 70 vine. George th
Third said he liked his old friends an'
? old shoes best. Tine is The universe