The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-04-19
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

Order gave each thing yiew.-Shdkss-
pears.
Friendship is full Of dregs.-Shakss-
pedre.
Every man desires to live long, but no
man would be old.
We cannot do evil to others without
doing II to ourselves.
You cannot prove thing to be good
or beautiful 10 a man who has no idea
Of Its excellence.
Many persons are more desirous to
know what they should do, than to do
what they know.
Salve not thy wounds with poison, as
u petty goodness Of to-day hath blotted
out the sin of yesterday.
Voltaire said: sour physicians put
drugs, ofwhlch they know nothing, into
bodies of which they know less. >"
We treat men like the letters we get;
we read them once with eagerness, aud
do not re-read them VOltdire.
1t Is not to taste sweet things but to do
noble and true things, that the poorest
son Of Adam dimly longs.-Cwlyle.
| admire pashunce but kno lots oy
people who are pashunt just bekauze
they are too lazy to be ennything else.
Time is intellectually long, and every
day is vessel into which much may be
poured, If one only wishes to fill it up.
Goethe.
There are many who talk on from ig-
norance rather than from knowledge.
and, who find IN the former an mex
haustible fund of conversation.
To neglect, at any time, preparation
for death, is to sleep at our post at
siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at
an attack.
Fair soul, in your fine frame hath
love no quality? If the quick fire of
youth light not your mind, you are no
maiden, but monument.-Shakesped
The person who has a firm trust in the
Supreme Being is powerful in His
power, wise by His wisdom, happy by
His happiness.
When you feel as if you have violated
rule of prOpriety, you feel ashamed;
when of prudence, regret; when a rule
of right, you feel remOrse.
l look upon an able statesman out of
business like huge whale, that will
ehdeaVor to overturn the ship unless he
has an empty eask to play with.-SteeIe.
1t is the amends of short and trou-
blesome life that doing good and suffer
ing Ill entitle man to one longer and
better.-W William Penn.
God is the only being who has time
enough; but a prudent man who knows
now to seize occasion, can commonly
make shift to find as much as he needs,
-LOloeU.
The difference between fashionable
hat and fashionable bonnet is very
simple. One is worn over the ear and
the other Is worn on the nape of the
neck.
Arbitrary power Is the natural object
OF temptation to a prince, as wine or
woman to young fellow, or a bribe to
a Judge, or avarice to old age, or vanity
TO woman.
No man is poor who does not think
himself so. But If in a full fortune.
with impatience he desires more, he
proclaims his wants, and his beggardly
condition.
The chief secret of comfort lies In not
suffering tritles to vex us, and in pru.
uently cultlvating our underground of
small pleasures since very few great
ones, alas are let on long leases.
1t Is never too late with us so long as
we are still aware of our faults, and
bear them impatiently; so long as aspi-
rations, eager for conquest stir within
SO great is the effect of cleanliness
upon man that it extends even to his
moral character. Virtue never dwelr
long with filth; nor do | believe there
ever was person scrupulously atten-
tive to cleanliness who was a consum-
mate villain.
An Englishman's umbrella Is some
thing to be held sacred. 1t cannot be
stolen with impunity. A man was sem
fenced to days Imprisonment in Lon
don recently for borrowing an UNI
brella without the owners knowledge
The custom in Eastern Turkey is to
remove the boots and shoes on entering
church. An American saw at Anitai,
Turkey, 1900 boots and shoes at the
door of a church presenting very curl
GUS sight. The men go In barefoot, but
keep their hats on.
Envy cannot be hid. 1t accuses and
judges without proofs; 1t exaggerates
defects; its conversation is filled with
gall, exaggeration and injury. 1t stands
out with obstinacy and with fury against
merit. 1t is hasty, insensible
and brutal.
Botanists have class of plants which
they name inCompletG; we might in the
same sense speak of incomplete, imper-
feet men-those, namely, whose long
Ing and struggling, are not in proper
tlon to their doing and performing
Goethe.
The faithful devoted Christian Is all
heartedness. While others do things
coldly and without interest, he puts his
whole soul into his labor, and does it
with hearty good will and with vigor-
Dus healthy zeal, because he loves to do
It.-Murrdy.
"Storm King" the highest of the
Highland peaks, Is 500 feet above tide
water. The chain which was stretched
across the river at West Point In war
lime was 1850 feet long, and was
from ore obtained near
Bear mountain, which is 1850 feet high
"a singular coincidence.
Idleness is the nursery of crime. 1t
IS that prolific germ of which all rank
md poisonous vices are the fruits. II Il
.he source of temptation. 1t Is the field
where "the enemy sows tares while men
Sleep" Could we trace the history Of
a large class of vices, we should find
that they originate from the want of
and are brought In to sup
ply Its place.
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