The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-28
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

a good cause Is more injured by q
weak defence than by strong attack
A good discourse is that from which
one can take nothing without taking
the life.
/ never wonder TO see men wicked,
but often wonder to see them not
ashamed.
Predominant opinions are generally
the opinions of the generation that Is
vanishing.
More shillings conceded to the making
of a shirt would double the religion of
mankind.
Let us be patient. 1t is the hour for
calmness, quiet and trust, with sharp
watching.
Snodgrass says, in his dry, sarcastic
way, that self-made men are apt TO
worship their maker
Mean spirits, under disappointment
like small beer in a thunder storm,
always turn sour.-Rdad0ph.
There may be many doors to shut;
close them all, for it is in closet prayer
that the voice of the Beloved is heard.
1t is not until we have passed through
the furnace that we are made TO know
how much dross was i'm our compost
ton.
Violent passions are formed in soli-
tude. In the hustle of the world no OBJ
ject has time TO make deep impress
sion.
The exhuberance ofyouth may betray
good girls into little indiscretions, but
not into vulgarity, which is only one
remove from vice.
If girls would have roses for their
cheeks, they must do as the roses do
90 to sleep with the lilies and get up
with the morning glOries.
When the heart pronounces strongly,
its meaning is sure to appear in the
cOuntenance, and lend to conduct the
purple of victory. Weiss.
1t is one thing to love truth, and to
seek it for its own sake; and quite
another to welcome so much of It that
tallies with our impressions and preiu-
dices.
In all places, and in all times, those
religiOnists who have believed too much
have been more inclined to violence and
persecution than those who believe too
little.
A good man and a wise man NAV at
times be angry with the world at times
grieved for it; but be sure no man was
ever discOntented with the world who
did his duty.
Carlyle does not believe that the
affairs of this world can be settled by
talk. No, they are oftener unsettled
than settled by the wagging of the un-
ruly member.
Love is circumspect, humble, and up
right; not yielding to sOftness or to
levity, nor attending to vain things; it
Is sober, chaste, steady, quiet and
guarded in all the senses.
How violently do rumors blow the
sails of popular judgments! How few
there are that can discern between truth
and truth-likeness, between shows and
substance!-ST p. Sidney.
Persons who like to contemplate
their own importance, should consider
that the world got along very well be-
fore they were born and will probably
get along equally well after they are
dead.
Mirabeau was busy and had no time
for duels. He answered challenges
with this stereotyped formula "MOn.
sieur you are put upon my list; but
warn you that 1t is long, and | grant no
Beware of confiding in distant pros
poets of happiness, lest they should be
intercepted by the most trivial
present vexatiOn. A leaf in the fore
ground is large enough to conceal
forest on the far horizon.
All our sufferings are ordered by
father; ills the potion our father gives
10 drink, and whatever bitter ingredient
there is in it, still it is of a fathers
and why suspect it to be poi.
son and be afraid of itP
"Man thinks of the sorrow" OBJ
served the lamented Bulwer LyttOn,
i'woman of the consolation" After
a domestic unpleasantness it is always
she who does him up in liniment or
rubs him down with arnica.
Pope says that from fourteen to
twenty he read only for amusement;
from twenty to thirty for improvement
and instruction; that during the first
period he desired only to know, and in
the second he endeavored to judge.
Time is lent to us to be laid out In
Gods service to His honor, and we can
lot be too diligent in it if we consider
hat time is precious, short, passing,
Uncertain, ifrcyocable when gone, and
hat for which we must be accountable.
Conscience has a thousand witnesses.
A good conscience is to the soul what
lealth is to the body. 1t preserves u
constant ease and serenity within us,
md more than countervails all the cal
lmities and Affections that can befall
Is.
Man doubles all the evils of his fate
~ meditating upon them. A scratch
becomes wound, slight becomes an
injury, jest an insult, small peril a
great danger, and slight sickness
,ften ends in death by brooding appre-
tensions.
Most people use their minister rs
Nolere did his physician. "Of what
Use is your doctorp" said the king to
him one day. "Well sire," was the
reply, "he gives me prescriptionsand l
lever follow them-that Is ALL"
Louis XIV, of France, used to carry
| watch about him that was set in one
If his fnger-rings. This was rightly
considered a marvel In the neurological
art, but the expense of producing such
limlnutive machines has doubtless pre-
vented their coming into general use.
No mocklng in this world ever sounds
70 me so hollow as that Of being told to
cultivate happiness. What does such
ldvice mean2 Happiness is not po..
,ato to be planted in mold and titled
with manure. Happiness is a glory
shining far down upon us out of hea-
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