The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-05-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Wheel-alWays tlred.
It's easy finding reasons why other
folks should be patient.
National enthusiasm is the great nur-
sery ofgenius.-IuckemdR.
How difficult it is for a suffering man
to be good man.-G9the.
A great heart is as quick to tnd
another as the world is slow.
Never turn blessing around to seq
whether 1t has dark side to 1t.
The wisest man is generally he who
thinks himself the least sO.--Boiledu.
The darkest side of the road to heaven
is brighter than any part of the broad
way that leads to destruction.
If you have religion you need not
tell people about it; they will lind IL
out after trading with you for little
while.
Before me-to do wrong is a sin; be-
hind me-the deed done must have
been.
Truth is the shortest and nearest way
to our end, carrying us thither in y
straight line.
Cromwell says that one never goes 50
far as when one does not know whittier
he is going.
Men will never know us by our faith,
for that is within us; they know us by
our works, which are visible to them.
Precious things in art, as in nature,
are seldom spontaneous, but REQUIRE
growth and deliberatiOn beyond the
germ.
Labor is the law of the world, and he
who lives by other means Is of less
value to the world than the buzzing
busy insect.
The most joyous and gladstone ma
lures are those most keenly alive to i'm
pressions of reverence, wonder and
awe,
There is no strength so invigOrating
as that which arises out of victory over
selfish inclination, obtained by the force
of right principle.
"You try in vain, says pithy wri-
ter, 'to sweep the mist from your door
with broom, but when the sun shines
upon it, how soon it dlsperses" !"
To know a man, observe how he wins
his object rather than how he loses it;
for when we fall, our pride supports;
when we succeed, it betrays us.
We are surrounded by abysses, but
the greatest of all depths is our own
heart, and an irresistible leaning leads
us there. Draw thyself from thyself.
She who does not make her family
comfortable will herself never be happy
at home; and she who is not happy at
home will never be happy anywhere.
1t is not creditable to be satisfied with
the results of limited activity. Large
natures have usually large desires, and
only the small are satisfied with the
'To describe any scene well," said
German critic, "the poet must make the
bosom of a man his camera obscura, and
look at it through this; then he will see
1t POLITICALLY"
Civility Is to man what beauty is to
a woman. 1t creates an instantaneous
impression in his behalf, while the op-
pOsite quality eXcites as quick preju-
dice against him.
Too much idleness, l have observed,
fills up mans time much more com
pletely, and leaves him less his own
master, than any sort Of employment
Here is a little conundrum for
If, as they claim, they cannot
live on the reduced wages offered by
how is it that they live
any wages at alp
Have courage enough to review your
own conduct, to condemn it where you
letect faults, to amend it to the best of
your ability, to make good resolves for
,he future guidance, and to keep them.
A man has a right to large install
nent of the property he has raised
lrOund himself. If a man should give
I'll his money to the heather, in a year
)r two he would be heathen himself.
A poet ought not to pick natures
pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow
Is to repay by the very act of borrow
ng. Examine nature accurately, but
write from recollection, and trust more
o the Imagination than the memory
Joleridge.
The best thing to give your enemy Is
forgiveness; to your opponent, tOler-
lnce; to friend, your heart; to your
'hild, a good example; to a father, de-
erence; to your mother, conduct that
will make her proud Of you; to your
elt, respect; to all men, charity.
Many men have followed this advice
If well known physician, but not al
ways for the same reason: "lf you are
,ery sleepy, can scarce keep your eyes
,pen, slide into bed without undressing;
otherwise the usual preparation will
thoroughly arouse you; and you may
lot fall asleep for hours"
After all, let man take what pains
le can to hush it down, human soul
S an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession
or bad man to have. Who knows the
netes and bounds of itH Who knows all
Is awful perhapses shudderings
nd tremblings, which 1t can no more
i've down that II can outlve Its own
ternity.
If man wants advice he can have
bundance of 1t any day free as air;
My that, like everything else, 1t bears
relative value to its price. The cost
lest advice of all Fate sells us-exper-
nee; and she sometimes so well be-
ats it in answer to our demand that
ur broth is so bitter 1t seems as If only
unger of life made it endurable. Ex-
erence, too, Is like broth; each one
aving tasted keeps his own and cannot
No process Is so fatal as that which
you'd cast all men In one mould. Every
uman being is intended to have char
cter of his own, TO be what no other Is,
D do what no other can do. Our com
lon nature Is to be unfolded In un-
ounded diversties. 1t Is rich enough
Or infinite manifestations. II Is TO wear
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