The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-05-17
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

never attempt 10 make nay during
snow storm.
Little things on little wings, bear little
souls 10 heaven.
There is no good this world can give
like that ii takes away.
That is treacherous friend against
whom you must be always on your
guard.
The genius Of liberty and poetry
brought into action the brightest powers
of the human mind.
Though a man may become learned
by anOther's learning, he can never be
wise but by his own wisdom.
He who wants good sense is unhappy
In having learning; for he has thereby
more ways of exposing himself.
Prayer was not invented; It was born
with the first sigh, the first joy, the
first sorrow OF the human heart.
Many natures which seem to us coarse
and rough, hold, after all, the "sweet
music" in some solitary room in their
souls.
Good and evil are always paid otf,
sometimes Immediately, and sometimes
not until after they have run at interest
for a spell.
We are sure to be losers when we
quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war,
and In all such contentious trlumphs
are defeats.
Planets govern not the soul nor guide
the destinies of men; but trihes lighter
than straw are levers in the building up
Of our character.-Tupper.
Habits are often as ridiculous as they
are strong, you often see people who
can't pick up a pair of tOngs, without
splitting on their hands first.
No man, for any considerable period
can wear one face TO himselfand another
to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.
Men of one idea are always extrem-
lists, and extremists are always nui-
sances. might truthfully add that an
extremist is never man OF sound mind.
1t is only by labor that thought can
be made healthy, and only by thought
that labor can be made happy, and the
two cannot be separated with impunity.
One who had lived more than fifty
years said, as the hand of death waa
upon him, 81 have all my DAYS been
getting ready to live, and now | must
die"
Many men become virtuOus in their
Old age, because they are no longer able
TO set bad example, and make of their
forced purity text to lecture to the
young.
Resist it as firmly, despise it as proudly
as we may, all studied unkindness, no
matter how contemplate tmay be, has
a stlnging power in it which reaches to
the quick.
A little misery sweetens life. 1t is
the salt that makes it palatable and
wholesome; the shade that relieves, and
sets OIL the monotony and brilliancy of
the sunshine.
No affection, save friendship, has any
sure eternity in it. Friendship, ought,
therefore, always to be cultivated In
love itself, as its only certain guard and
preservative.
Inc most eXtravagant luxury In the
world is that mean ecOnomizing which
seeks to get the best class of work done
by the best workers without paving for
it.-GOlden Rule.
The pains of noble souls are like the
May frosts of a life-a spring follows
them. The pains of the wicked are the
frosts of autumn-they precede the pun
ishments of winter.
Beauty, as flowery blossom soon
fades, but the divine excellencies of the
mind, like the medicinal virtue of
plant, remain in it when all those
charms are withered.
Don't send for an adviser with the
mere view of being confirmed in your
own opinion. You might as well send
for doctor and prescribe to him what
medicine he ought to order.
The way to be happy is not to try too
much to be so. You caunot catch sun
beams If you would try; but you may
enjoy their light and warmth by letting
them shine unsolicited upon you.
When all is done, human life is at the
greatest and the best, but like a forward
child that must be played with and hui
mored a little to keep 1t quiet until 1t
falls asleep and then the care is over
Temple.
The intoxication of anger like that of
the grape, shows us to others, but hides
us from ourselves, and we injure our
own cause, in the opinion of the world,
when we too passionately and eagerly
defend It..
1t were better to have no opinion Of
God at all, than to have such an opinion
as is unworthy Of him, for the one is
unbelief and the other is contumely,
and certainly superstition is the re-
proaCh of the Deity.-BdcoR.
Deceit and falsehood, whatever con-
venience they may for time promise,
are, In the sum of life, obstacles to hap
piness. Those who profit by the cheat,
distrust the deceiver; and the act by
which kindness was sought puts an end
to confidence.
Out Of suffering have emerged the
strongest souls, and the most massive
characters are scanned with scars. Mar
tyrs have put on their coronation robes
glittering with fire, and through their
tears have the sorTowful first seen the
gates Of heaven.
The every day cares and duties which
men call drudgery are the weights and
counterpoises of the clock Of time, Civ
ing its regular motion, and when they
cease to hang upon the wheels the pen
dulum no longer swings, the hands no
longer move, the clock stands still
Happiness Is the perpetual possession
Of beings well deceived; for 1t Is mani
fest what mighty advantages fiction has
over truth and the reason Is at our el-
bow, because imagination can build
nobler scenes and produce more Won
derful revolutions than fortune or ma
ture can be at the expense to furnish.
Heine said Of one Of his aoquaint-
ances, ''1he man is really cracked but
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