The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-08-30
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

lOOus.
The resdiest and best way to find out
what future duty will be, is to do pre-
sent duty.
The devil never yet tempted man
whom he found judiciously employed.
-SDurgeOn.
My heart laments that virtue cannot
live out OF the teeth Of emulation
Shakespeare.
Watch for opportunities of useful
ness. Every day brings them, and once
gone they are gone forever.
What is the difference between water
and time? Water finds its own level,
while time levels everything.
1t is always the person of doubtful
virtue who Is most eager TO assume the
appearance of severe integrity.
AS surfeit is the father of must fast,
so every scope by the immediate use
turns to restraint.-Shdkepedre.
scarcely exceed the middle age of
man yet between infancy and maturity
| have seen ten revOlutiOns.-Ldmdrtine.
We cannot conquer fate and neces-
sity, yet we can yield TO them in such
way as to be greater than if we could.
Looking to others for our standard of
happiness is sure way TO be miser.
able. Our business is with our own
heart.
1t is safer to afiront some people than
to oblige them; for the better man de-
serves, the worse they will speak of
him.-Senecd.
People say, "Do not regard what he
is saying now, he is in liquor" Per-
haps this is the only time he ought to
be regarded.
All brave men love; for he only is
brave who has affections to fight for,
whether in the daily battle of life or in
physical contests.
There are men and times at which
and with whom nothing could be more
refreshing TO an honest man than to
give them sound drubbing.
Judges ought to be more learned than
witty, more reverent than plausible, and
more advised than confident. Above
all things, integrity is their portion and
proper virtue. .-BdcOn.
When human hearts, after friendly
interchange of thoughts, feel calmed
and quieted, it is as If an angel had
down through the room and we had
heard the gentle flutter of wings.
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it
makes him that hath 1t without means
esteemed for excellent wit; he that en-
joys 1t with means puts the world I'm
remembrance of his means.-JOhRsOn.
To form a correct Judgment concern
ing the tendency of any doctrine we
should rather look at the fruit it bears
in the disciples than in the teacher.
For he only made it; they are made
by it.
Life in every shape should be pre-
cious TO us, for the same reason that the
Turks carefully collect every scrap of
paper that comes in their way-because
the name of God may be written on it.
Jean Paul.
Love may exist without jealousy,
although this is rare; but jealousy NAV
exist without love, and this is common,
for jealousy can feed on that which is
bitter no less than that which is sweet,
and is sustained by pride as often as by
affection.
In some parts of the Pertshire high
lands the belief prevails that, when
boy and girl are presented for baptism,
the parents must be particular to let the
boy be christened before the girl, other
wise the boy will grow up in life with
out beard.
OF all the difficulties in State, the
temper Of true government most fall
SITES and perpetuates it.; too sudden
q QlfnTnTinnc Hiafnn1 fr
tuned his government as he did his
harp, his harmony would have been
more honorable and his reign more
Children must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play, and
some good mpaniOnship outside
otherwise young life runs the greatest
danger in the world of whitening, or
growing stunted, or, at best, prema-
turely old and turned inward on itself.
A tender hearted and compassionate
which inclines men to pity
and feel the misfOrtunes of others, and
which is, even for its own sake, inca
pable of involving any man i'm ruin and
misery, is of all tempers of mind the
most aniable; and though it seldom re-
ceives much honor, is worthy of the
highest.-Fielding.
1t is necessary to look forward as
well as backward, as some think it is
always necessary to regulate their con-
duct by things that have been done in
old times; but that past which is 50
brought forward as
precedent for the present was itself
founded on an alteration Of some past
that went before it.
The stoics, who thought the souls of
wise men had their habitatiOns about
the moon, might make slight account of
dispositions, whereas the
PythagOrians and transcorporating
who were to be after
buried, held great care of the inter-
ment, and the Platonic rejected not
due care of the grave.-Sir +. BroUne.
A lady of fashion will sooner forgive
a freedom arising from admiration than
a slight resulting from indifference.
The first otiense has the pleading apOl-
ogy of her attractions; the last is bold
and without alleviation. But the mode
in which she disposes of the two only
shows that her love of admiration is
stronger than her sense of propriety.-
Cotton.
The stupidest fellow, if he would but
reveal with childlike honesty how he
feels and what he thinks, when the
stars wink at him, when he sees the
ocean for the first time, when music
comes over the waters, or when he and
his beloved look into each others eyes
would he but reveal this, the world
would hail him as genius in his way.
Mrs. L. II. Child.
No man can safely go abroad, that
does not love to stay at home; no man
can safely speak, that does not willingly