The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,


The sOurest man Is not wholly hope
less when he will not blaspheme before
his son.
Before you try to describe a sunset,
attempt description OF an artists pic
ture of Onel
Have not thy cloak 10 make when it
begins to rain.
Patience and cheerfulness adorn tho
ruins of fortune, as ivy does those of
castles and temples.
Necessity of action takes away the
fear of the act, and makes bold resolu-
tlon the favorite of fortune.
A good word is an easy obligation;
but not to speak i'll requires only our
silence, which costs us nothing.
Violent triumphs have violent ends,
and in their triumph die; like fire and
powder, which, as they kiss, consume.
The phrases that men are accustomed
to repeat necessarily end by becoming
convictions and ossify the organs of in
telligence.- Goethe.
The Slav MOhammedans are not
Turks, and have hatred of their Os
manli rulers and ODpressOrs as intense
as that of the Christians.
With every exertion, the best man
can do only moderate amount of good;
but 1t seems i'm the power of the most
contemplate individual to do incalcula-
Bile mischief.
The useful encourages Itself; for the
multitude produce it, and no one can
dispense with it; the beautiful must be
encouraged; for few can set it forth, and
many need it.
Men of age object too much, consult
too long, adventure too little repent too
soon, aud seldom drive business home to
the full period, but content themselves
with a mediocrity of success.
You have got into the way of putting
aside convictions. The eyelid naturally
closes when any object is coming against
it; so does the heart of practiced
worldling close and shut out convic.
tions.
We are too apt, in our wonder and
our applause at the height to which a
man has attained against all odds, to
forget to note whether his steps up the
incline have been clean and justly
taken.
1t is strange thing to behold what
gross errors and extreme absurdities
men do commit for want of a friend to
tell them of them. The light of good
counsel is that which setteth all things
straight.
What is this life but the circulation of
little mean actionsp We lie down and
rise again, dress and redress, feed and
grow hungry, work or play, and are
weary; and then we lie down again and
the circle returns.
1t is easier to forgive an ancient
enemy than the friend we have offended.
Oar resentment grows with our unde-
sert, and we feel vindictve in due de-
gree with our own doubts of the chance
of finding forgiveness.
To solicit patronage is, at least in the
event, to set virtne to sale. None can
be pleased without praise, and few can
be praised without falsehOod; few can
be assiduous with servility, and none
can be servile without corruption.
Little martin boxes of homes are gen.
orally the most happy and cosy; little
are nearer TO being atoms of
shattered paradise than anything we
know of; and little fortunes bring the
most content, and little hopes the least
DIR. johnson once silenced a notorious
female backbiter, who was condemning
some of her friends for painting their
cheeks, by the remark that sit is far
less harmful thing for lady to redden
her own complexion than to blacken
her neighbours"
A woman may love her husband de.
gotedly-may sacrifice fortune, friends,
'amily, country for him-she may have
Jhe genius of Sappho, the lovellness
Of an Armida; but-melancholy fact
f with these she fail to make her home
his heart will inevitably
escape her.
Evil is easily discovered; there is an
infinite variety. Good is almost unique.
But some kinds of evil are almost as
lifficult to discover as that which we
call good; and often particular evil of
his class passes for good, 1t needs
even a certain greatness of soul to at
ain to this, as to that which is good.
During the French Revolution, Jean
Bon st. Andre. the Vendean leader,
,aid to a peasant, 81 will have all your
teeples pulled down that you may no
onger have any objects by which you
nay be reminded of your old supersti-
ions" "YOu cannot help leaving us
he stars" replied the peasant; "and
We can see them further off than our
teeples."
The best woman in all the world is
he one who best preserves her good
less, purity and dignity. Such women,
Who look more to the adOrnment of the
mind, and to bettering the condition of
than to following the "trip
)eries Of fashion, will be the queens in
he better world, before whom many u
,plHsh being now in this life will rever-
,ially bow. ..
Woo a woman bravey. If there is
humiliating to a woman 1t Is
20 have lover whom she wishes to
lOnor, weak and vapid, ever yielding,
md half afraid of her. She longs to tell
nim to "act like a man ~ The man who
,onceals or denies his love for fear of
being laughed at, is coward. A love
hat has no element of divinity in it Is
not love. but passion, which, Of itself,
mas nothing ennobling. That was a
inscription on a wedding
ring. each for the other, and both for
Cod"
Wind-mills in Holland are about as
high as an average church steeple. The
arms or fans are of an enormous length,
md carry 5000 feet of canvas. And
his is the machine that literally makes
Holland. 1t pumps out the ocean when
he ocean gets in. 1t saws and grinds.
II does the lifting and the lowering. A
family lives In the mill. In Holland
here are full 10000 of these mammoth
structures. Some are built of brick,
others of stone, and many Of wood.
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