The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-21
THOUGHT SEED.

gone and your sin remains.
THOUGHT SEED.
Real glory springs from the silent
conquest of ourselves.
Let reason go before enterprise
and council before action.
Words cannot heal the wounds
that words can make.
He who can suppress a moments
anger may prevent days of sorrow.
To be dexterous in danger is a
virtue, but to court danger is a
weakness.
A good opportunity never waits.
If you arc not ready some one else
will be.
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts. To believe in the heroic
makes heroes.
Do with trials as men do with
new hats-put them on and wear
them till they become easy.
The cultivation of the moral ma
ture in man is the grand means for
improvement in society.
A good word is all easy obIiga-
ton, but not to speak i'll, requires
only silence which costs nothing.
The best hints are obtained from
snarling people. Medicaments
made the patient smart, but they
heal.
No person ever got stung by hor-
nets who kept away from where
they were. 1t is just SO with bad
habits.
A promise should be given with
caution and kept with care. 1t
should be made by the heart and
kept by the head.
The fixed purpose sways and
bends all circumstances to its use, as
the wind bends the reeds and rush
es beneath it.
If man has any religion worth
having he will do his duty and not
make a fuss about it. 1t is the
empty kettle that rattIes.
They who respect themselves will
be honored; but they who do not
care about their character will be
despised.
Many troubles, like waves of the
ocean, will, if we wait calmly, only
break at our feet and disappear.
Life, like war, is a series of mis-
takes; and he is the best Christian
who wins the most splendid vic
tories by the retrieVal of mistakes.
We are only competent to judge
another's conduct when we thor
oughly comprehend the motives
that prompted his actions.
Death is as near the young as the
old {; here is all the difference; death
stands behind the young mans back
and before the old mans face.
1t is the best and safest rule to
walk by, to be severe and right in
judging ourselves, and to be very
meek and charitable to our broth
ers.
Bible promises are like the beam
of the sun, which shine as freely in
at the window of the poor mans
cottage as at the rich mans palace.
Without virtue there can be no
true happiness; but we want love
joining with virtue to give us all
the good which this world is capa-
BILE of bestowing.
Some men make great flourish |
about always doing what they be-
lieve to be right, but always manage |
to believe that is right which is for
their own interest.
a man who is not able to make a |
bow to his own conscience every |
morning, is hardly in a condition to |
respectfully salute the world at any |
other time of the day.
Preserve your conscience always |
soft and sensitive. II but one sin |
force itself into that tender part of
the soul, and is suffered to dwell |
there, the road is paved for thous- |
and moro iniquities.
To young man nothing is so i'm
portant as a spirit of devotion
next to his Creator-to some virtu- |
Gus and amiable woman, whose inn
age may occupy his heart and guard |
it from the pollution which besets |
1t on all sides.
The stream of time rolls rapidly |
away into the ocean of eternity, |
sweeping off in its impetuous course |
all human things. Beauty, fashion,
genius, accomplishments ealth, will |
be no more. Religion alone is des-
tined to survive the ruin.
A tender conscience is like the
apple of mans eye-the least dust |
that gathers into it effects it. There
is no surer and better way to know
whether our consciences are dead
and stupid than to observe what
impressions small sins make upon
them.
Profane swearing is abominable.
Vulgar ignorance is disgusting.
Loud laughter is impolite. Inqisi-
tiveness is offensive. Tattling is
mean. Telling a falsehood is con-
temptible. Ignorance is disgrace
full, and laziness is shameful. Avoid
all the above vices and aim at use
fulness.