The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-22


in confession to a mortal priest the former
is removed by his absoiution, and the lat
ter is taken away.-Mirandi, of Pied
mont.
Morality without religion is only kind
of dead reckoning--an endeavor 10 fnd
our place on a cloudy sea by measuring
the distance we have TO run, but without
any observation of the heavenly bodies. -
Longfellow.
Ostentation is the signal flag Of hypOc.
risy. The eharlatan Is verbose and as
sump;ive; the Pharisee is ostentatiOus,
+ because he is a hypocrite Pride is the
master sin of the devil, and the devil is
the father of lies.-Chapin.
Ny idea is, that there are duties toward
our native land common to every citizen,
and even public institutions and education
must have such direction as to enable
every citizen to fulfill his duty toward his
fatherls nd. -Kossuth.
Let US with caution indulge the suppo-
sition that morality can be maintained
without religion. Reason and experience
both forbid us 20 expect that national mo-
rality can prevail in exclusion Of religious
principle. w ashington Irving.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
the pen is mightier than the sword. Be
hold the arch enchanter's wand itself
nothing, but taking sOrcerv from the mas
ter-hand paralize the Caesars, and strike
the broad earth breathless !-Bulwer
Lytton.
Every true specimen of perfection, or
even excellence, of whatever kind it may
be, from the moral down to the physical,
elevates every instance of an inferior de-
gree of excellence that we meet with, and
sheds over il Il portion of its own perfec-
tion. Lieber.
Philosophy is bully that talks very
loud when the danger is at distance
but the moment she is hard pressed by
the enemy she is not to be found at her
post. but leaves the brunt of the battle to
be borne by her humber but sturdIer
comrade, Religion. Cotton.
The poor man is kind of money that
is not currant; the subject of every idle
housewives chat; the of-scum Of the
people the dust of the street, first tramp
led under foot and then thrown on the
dung-hill in conclusion, the poor man
is the rich mans ass.-Alforaohe,
Nature my mother, nature as the
infant in the harsh slavery of schools pines
for home, yearn within the dark walls
of cities, end amid the hum of unfamil- !
lar men, for thy sweet embrace, and thy
bosom whereon to lay nv head, and |
weep wild tears at my will.-BulweT
Lytton.
Pride eounterbalanees all our miseries,
for it either hides them, or, if it discloses
them, boasts Of that disclosure PRIDE
has such thorough possession of us, even
in tho midst of our miseres and faults, !
that we are prepared to sacrifice life with |
joy, if it may but be talked of.-Pasoai,
A mans genius is always, In the begin
ming of life, as much unknown to himself
as to others aud it is only after frequent
trials, attended with success, that he !
dares think himself equal to the under
takings in which those who have succeeded
have fixed the admiration Of mankind. 49,
Hume.
Whatever mitigates tho woes or in
creases the happiness Of others is a just
criterion of goodness; and whatever in
jures society ut large, or any individual
in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One
should not quarrel with dog without
reason sufficient 70 vindioate one through
all the courts Of morality. Goldsmith.
That kind of discipline whose pupgent
severity is in the manifestations of pa
rental loTe, compassion and tenderness
is the mozt sure of its object. It so cen
tcives the administration Of Ohastfsement
as to convince tho understanding of those !
who are exercised by it, that reformation |
Is the object aimed at.-Hosea Ballou,
He who recognizes no higheg logic that
the shilling may beGnIAe very rich man,
and yet reLaain all the while an exceed
iagly poor creature for riches are no
proof whatever of moral worth, and their
to the wOrthlessness Of their pOSSesSOr, as
the glow-worm's light reveals the grub
Samuel Smiles,
See, then, hcw powerful religion is it
commands the heart it commands the
vitals. Morality-that comes with prun-
ing-knife and cuts off all sproutings, all
wild luxuriances but religion lays the
AK to the root of the tree. Morality
looks that the skin of the people be tair,
but religion searcheth to the very core
Nathaniel Culyerwell.
1t is not possible to be regarded with
tenderness, except by few. That merit
which gives greatness and renown diffuses
its influence To wide compass, but acts
weakly on every single breast it is placed
at distance from common spectators,
and shines like one Of the remote stars,
of which the light reaches us, but not the
heat-Johnson.
Every man is rich or poor according to
the proportion between his desires and
enioyments. Any enlargement Of riches
is, therefore, equally destructive to hap
piness with the diminution of possession
and he that teaches another to long for
what he cap never obtain is no less an
enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed
him of part of his patrimony.-Johnson.
And yet we are very apt to be full Of
ourselves, instead of Him that made what
we so much value, and but for whom we
can have no reason TO value ourselves.
For we have nothing that we can call our
own; no, not ourselves; for we are but ten
ants, and at will, too, Of the Great Lord OF
ourselves, and the rest of this great farm,
the world that we live upOn.-William
Penn.
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