The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-04-28
Gems of Liberal Thought.

In matters of conscience, first
thoughts are best; in matters of pruo
dence, last thoughts,
No man is ever good for anything
until he has found two things-frst,
something to love, and second, some
thing to reverence.
The worthiest people are the most
injured by SANDER, as we usually find
that to be the best fruit which the
birds have been picking at.
People frequently reject great truths,
not so much for want of evidence as
for want of inclination to search for
it.
Overburden net thy memory to
make a faithful servant thy slave
Have as much reason as camel, to
rise when thou hast thy full load.
Mental pleasures never cloy unlike
those of the body, they are increased
by repetition, and strengthened by en-
jOyment.
An instant decides the life of a man
and his whole fate; for after heightened
thought the resolve is only the act OF
a moment; it is the man of sense that
seizes on the right thing to be done ;
it is ever dangerous to linger in your
selection of this and that, and so by
your hesitation get confused. -
Goethe.
What renders man unjust? Are not
errors and preiudices the causes of
the abuses of power? IF you really
wish to prevent the commission of in
Justice, you must first remove error
and prejudice. Any one entrusted
with power will abuse it if not. also an
imated with the love of truth ahd vir-
tue, no matter whether he be prince
or one of the people.-[Fontain.
The greatest man is he who choose
right with the most invincible resOlu>
tion; who resists the sOrest temptation
from within and without; who bears
the heaviest burdens eheerfullv who
is calmest in storms and most fearful
under menaces and frowns; whose re,
lance on truth and on virtue is un~
faltering. -[Seneca.
IF length of days be thy portion,
make it not thy expectation reckon
not upon long life; think every day the
last, and live always beyond thy ac-
count. He that SO often surviveth his
expecta ion lives many lives, and will
scarce complain of the shOrtness OF
bis days. Time past is gone like a
shadow; make time TO come present
TSir Thomas Brown.
Our ideas of right and wrong are
mostly right. We can all agree as to
what is best for man. No one will
assert that lie adds to mans charac-
ter; that dishonesty inspires conf
dence; that expensive. injurious habits
are to be commended, or that vices
that shorten or brutalize human life
are fit for men and women to practice.
Sins may have made saints, but we do
not believe they have made a great
many. You will be better man to-
morrow by being good man to>day. =
IL. X. Washburn.
When people ask for our attention
because of what has passed, as they
say, Gin the Council of the Trinity,
and been promulgated for our direc~
ton by g personal first cause, the
moral and intelligent governor of the
universe, it is certainly open to any
man to refuse to hear them on the
plea that the very thing they start with
they have no means of proving. And
we see that many do so refuse their
attention; and that the breach there is,
for instance, between popular religion
and what is called science, comes from
this cause.-IM M. Arnold.
Rise for the day is passing
And you lie dreaming on;
The others have buckled their armoz,
And forth TO the fight have gone.
A place in the ranks awaits you,
Each man has some psrt TO play;
The past and future are looking
In the face of the stern TO-DAY.
L Adelaide A. Proctor