The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-03
WISE WORDS.

No man can be successful VINO neglects
his business.
No rank can shield us from the impair
tiality of death.
If You would succeed in life, rise early
and be an economist Of time.
Publish your joys but conceal your
sorrows.
Much learning shows how little NOR
tai knows.
Experience and wisdom are the best
fortune-tellers.
Vain glory is flower which never
comes to fruit.
The seed of our punishment is sown
at the same time we commit sin.
Faith steps in to our aid when our
boasted reason and knowledge fail.
While you look too much on Others
gardens, you will neglect your own.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much
vices almost always too little.
To succeed one must sometimes be
very bold and sometimes very prudent.
All deception in the course, of life Is
indeed, nothing else but a lie reduced
to practice, and falsehood passing from
words into things.
Perseverance is the crown of all the
other virtues, and the characteristic Of
heroes. 1t is small thing to begin we
must persevere TO the end.
We are taught to clothe our minds, as
we do our bodies, after the fashion in
vogue, and it is accounted fantastical,
or something worse, not to do SO.
The qualities we possess never make
us so ridiculous as those we pretend to
have,
One who is never busy can never rest,
for one implies relief from previous la
Dor.
Those who blow the Goals Of others
strife may chance to have the sparks fly
in their own faces.
Though charity may tend to make
your purse lighter one day, yet it will
make it heavier another.
II man speaks or acts with a pure
thought, happiness follows like shad-
ow that never leaves him.
Every mans vanity ought to be his
greatest shame, aud every mans folly
ought to be his greatest secret.
Looking to others for our standard of
happiness is a sure way to be miserable.
Our business is with our own heart.
| know no real worth but that tran
quil firmness which seeks dangers by
duty, and braves them without rash
ness.
/ II you would find great many faults
heon the lookout, but if you want to find
them in unlimited numbers be on the
look in.
Deceit is the false road to happiness;
all the Joys we travel through To vice,
like fairy banquets vanish when we
touch them.
| Character is higher than intellect. A
great soul win be strong TO live as well
as strong to think.
Perfect ignorance Is quiet, perfect
knowledge is quiet; not 50 the transition
from the former to the later.
From the manner in which praise and
blame are dealt ont ia this world an
honest man ought to coyet defamation
If we practice goodness not for the
sake Of its own intrinsic excellence, but
for the sake of gaining some advantage
by it, we may be cunning, but we are not
good.
Nothing so increases reverence for
! others as great sorrow to ones self. II
teaches on the depths of human ma
ture. In happiness we are shallow and
deem Others so.
He who betrays another's secret, be
, cause he has quarreled with him, was
never worthy of the name Of friend; a
breach Of Kindness will not justify a
breach Of trust.
Be courageous and noble-minded our
own heart and not other mems opinions
of us, forms our true honor.
think all lines of the human face
have something either touching or grand
unless they seem to come from low pas
sions. How fine old men are.
When necessity ends curiosity begins
and no sooner are we supplied with
J everything that nature can demand than
: we sit down and contriye artificial ap
: petites.
Unless man has trained himself foI
his chance, the chance will only make
him ridiculous A great occasion i
worth TO man exactly what his antece
dents have enabled him to make it.
: Men have commonly more pleasure in
the criticism which hurts than in thai
which is innocuous, and arc more tolcr
e ant of the severity which breaks heart
! and ruins fortunes than of that whicl
Z falls impotently to the grave.
Happiness is like mamma. 1t is to bt
! gathered in the grains and enjoyed ever,
+; day; it will not keep, it cannot be ac
4 cumulated; nor need we 60 out Of our
/ selves, nor into remote places, to gathe
8 it, since it has rained down from heaven
t at our very doors, or rather within them
r Recall at night not only your busines
r transactions, but what you have said 0
those of whom you have spoken during
& the day, and weigh in the balance .
u conscience what YOU have uttered. /
! you have done full justice in all your rc
y marks, it is well III you have not, the
seek the earliest opportunity to max
4 amends, and carefully avoid repetition
It of the wrong.
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