The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-13
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

A bad cloak often covers a good
drinker.-DOH Qai6Ote.
To become rich one must spare as
many cents as he can.
Being is before knowledge or action
so birth is temporarily before education.
lt is only by labor that thought can
be made healthy, and only by thought
that labor can be separated with impu-
nifty.
The idea of heaven and an existence
hereafter Is no more extraordinary than
the fact of an earth and an existence
here.
Children are unconscious philosO-
pliers. They refuse TO pull to pieces
their enjoyments to see what they are
made Of.
To all men, and at all times, the best
friend iskirtue, and the best companions
are high endeavors and honorable sem
timents.
You can't get anything In this world
without money, some say; but this is
not true, for without money you can
get into debt.
Where one youth depends on his mem
tai ability for success in life, nine rest
their hopes on the cut and gloss of
their collars.
The current coin of life is plain,
sound sense. We drive more substan-
tial and thriving trade with that than
with aught else.
What makes the Dead Sea deadS Be-
cause it is all the time receiving, never
giving out anything. This is the case
with too many men.
He that lends an easy and credulous
ear to calumny, is either man of very
i'll morals or has no more sense and un-
derstanding than child.
Ours is religion little In its de-
mands, but how infinitely prOdigal in
its gifts! 1t troubles you for an hour,
and repays you by immortality.
"Insults," says modern philosopher,
"are like counterfeit money. We can
not hinder their being offered, but we
are not compelled to take them"
Life in itself is neither good nor evil;
1t is the scene of good or evil as you
make it; and, if you have lived long
day, you have seen it all.-AOntdigne..
1t is easy to see the faults, and not so
easy always to ignore them; but faults
are never so evident and neverso heinOus
as when they exist in some one we do
not like.
tits maxim worthy of being written
in letters ofgold, that there is no method
SO certain of defeating the plots of
wicked men against us as by acting
uprightly.
In times of great excitement it be-
comes the duty of every man not to go
off on the "half cock'-or in other
words to keep cool regardless of the
If you pursue good without labor, the
labor passes away and the good re-
mains; but if you pursue a pleasure
with evil, the pleasure passes away,
and the evil remains.
Lord Bacon said If man be gra-
cious to strangers it shows he Is citi-
zen of the world, and that his heart is
no island, cut of from other lands, but
a continent that joins them.
He is not the best prophet who
guesses well, and he is not the wisest
man whose guess turns out well in the
event, but he who, whatever the event
be, takes reason and probability for his
guide.-EaipideS.
Where the means of subsistence are
abundant and obtained with but little
labor, mankind most certainly become
indolent and self-indulgent. Easiness
Of the terms of life is fatal to the noblest
elements of manhood and character.
Our enjoyment consists in pursuit,
not in attainment. Attainment is with
as, for the most part, the grave of plea
sure. Had we no object to excite fresh
activity, and impel us to new tolls, hu-
nan life would quickly stagnate in
indifference.
With clear sky, bright sun, and
gentle breeze, you can have friends in
plenty, but let Fortune frOwn and the
iruIament be overcast, and then your
'riends will prove like the strings of
ute, of which you will tighten many
before you will find one that will bear
he stretch and keep the pitch.
The truest definition of evil Is that
which represents it as something con-
rary to nature; evil Is evil because it
5 unnatural; vine, which should bear
live berries, an eye to which blue
GEMS yellow, would be diseased; an un-
natural mother, an unnatural son, an
unnatural act, are the strongest terms
# condemnation.
He who never relaXes into sportive-
less is wearisome companion; but
,eware of him who jests at everything.
,uch men disparage, by some ludicrous
all objects which are pre-
ented to their thoughts, and thereby
ender themselves incapable of any
motion which can either elevate or
often them; they bring upon their
moral being an influence more wlther-
ng than the blasts of the DESERT
'Outhey.
Carlyle wrote to De Quincy In let
err Just printed, in which he invites q
isit: "rrue, we have no society; but
Who has, in the strict sense of that
vordp have never had any worth
peaking much about since came Into
his world in the next, 1t may be, they
yill order matters better. Meanwhile,
we have not the wheat in great guam
ty, we arc nearly altogether free from
he chat, which often in this matter Is
ighly annoying to weak nerves."
One of the best modes of improving In
no art of thinking, is, to think over
)me subject before you read upon It.;
nd then to observe, after what manner
has occurred TO the mind of some
reat master. You will then observe
'hether you have been too rash or too
mid; what you have omitted and what
on have exceeded and by this process
Ou will insensibly catch great man
er of viewing question. 1t is right
! study, not only to think when any
incident provokes you to
link, but from time TO time review
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