The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-08-02
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

! ih"Sg runs must luIlOusly Mutn
guilty conscience drives IL.
No man has a right TO do as he pleasCs,
except when he pleases to do right.
1t Is only those that have done moth
ing, who fancy they can Oeverything.
Contentment makes one happy and
rich as the greatest king.
Ii is with love as with apparitions.
Every one talks of il, but few have ever
seen 1t.
A wise man may keep his own cOun-
sci, consequently he has no jobs for
strange lawyers.
Cultivate consideration for the feel
lngs of other people, ifyou would never
have your own injured.
1t Is a strange desire TO seek mower
and to lose liberty; or to seek power
over Others and lose power over mans
self.
whether you attempt little or much,
let every hour have its employment Ia
business, study, social converse, or
diversion.
Nothing is so beneficial ,Na young
author as the advice of man whose
Judgment stands constitutionally at the
freezing point.
! The man that cannot laugh Is only tit
| Tor treasons, stratagems and spOils; but
his own whole life is already treason
and stratagem.
Mans actual knowledge may easily be
measured. His ignorance is for him un-
favorable; he Is ignorant of the extent
of his ignorance.
Since the generality of persons act
from impulse more than principle, men
are neither so good or SO bad as we are
apt to think them.
A tolerant spirit acquires the love of
high and low. Tale-bearing is carrion
fly that buzzes at everyone's windows,
and dirties everything.
Abuse, like other p0isons, when adj
minlstered in too strong dose, is
thrown of by the intended victims, and
often relieves where 1t was meant to de-
stroy,
The best means to learn our faults Is
to tell others of theirs; they will be too
proud to be alone in their defects, and
will seek them in us, and reveal them
to us.
The man who won't take a paper be-
cause he can borrow one, has invented
a machine with which he can cook his
dinner by the smoke of his neighbor's
chimney.
There is no elasticity in mathemati-
cal fact; if you bring up against it, it
never yields hairs breadth; every
thing must 90 to pieces which comes in
collision with it.
Our customs and habits are like the
ruts in roads. The wheels of life settle
into them; and we jog along through
the mire, because it is too much trouble
TO get out of them.
The greatest statesmen are those who
not only develop national resources fa-
vorable to the material interests of
people, butalso promote virtue, enlight-
enment and patriotism.
Let us take care how we speak of
those who have fallen on life's field.
Help them up; do not heap scorn upon
them. We do not see the conflict. We
may not know the wound,
At midnight the blue sky bends over
us, dewy and soft, and radiant with in
Vulnerable stars, like the inverted bell
of some great blue flower, sprinkled
with golden dust and breathing fra
GRANGE.
There is not, perhaps, more whim-
sical figure In nature than man of real
mOdesty who assumes an air of impu-
dence; who, while his heart beats with
anxiety, studies case, and affects good
humor. - Goldsmith.
The last best fruit which comes to late
perfection, even in the Kindliest soul,
is tenderness toward the hal d. forbear-
anCe toward the forbearing, warmth of
heart toward the cold. and philanthropy
toward the misanthrOpic.
1t is the great privilege of poverty to
be happy unenvied, to be healthy with
out physic, secure without a guard, anu
to obtain from the bounty of nature
what the great and wealthy are com
PEELED to procure by the help of art.
With virtue, capacity and good con-
duct one can still be unsuppOrtable.
The manners, which are neglected as
small things, are often those which de-
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attention to them would have prevented
their i'll judgments.-Bruyere.
"1here is nOthing," said Plato, $50
delightful rs the hearing or speaking of
truth" For this reason, there is no
so agreeable as that of the
man of integrity, who hears without
any intention to betray, and speaks
without any attention 10 deceive.
A grocer's day-book might be won
of cheese, pickles and figs one could see
the grefs, hopes and joys, which caused
the heart to beat while the hand was
writing and the ink flowing fresh.
Deal gently with those who stray.
Draw them back by love and persua-
sion. One kiss is worth thousand
kicks. A kind word is more valuable
to the lost than mine of gold. Think
of this and be on your guard, ye who
chase to the grave an erring brother.
five work upon marble it will per-
ish; If we work upon brass time will
efi'ace it; if we rear temples, they will
crumble into dust; but if we work upon
immortal minds-if we Undue them
with principles, with just fear of God
and our fellow-men-we engrave on
these tablets something which will
brighten all eternity.
Suspicious amongst thoughts are like
cats amongst brds-they ever fly by
twilight. Certainly they are to be well
guarded, for they cloud the mind, they
lose friends, and they check business.
They dispose kings to tyranny, hus-
bands to jealousy, wise men TO melan-
choly. They are defects, not IN the
heart, but in the brain. They are but
buzzes, but, if ardliclally nourlshed,
have stlngs.
People should be guarded against
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