The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-10-11
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Time borders upon eternity. Ii re-
quires but an instant TO make the pas
sage from one TO the other.
A man who cannot command his tenn
per, his attention and his cOuntenance,
should not think of being man Of
business.
Dissipation Is a swift and sure de-
stroyer, and every young man who fol-
lows it is, as the early flower, exposed
TO untimely frost.
Cheaters must get some credit before
they can cozen; and all falsehood, If not
founded in some truth, would not be
fixed in any belief.
All deception in the course of life Is
indeed nothing else than lie reduced
TO practice, and falsehood passing from
words into things.
There is nothing evil in life for him
who rightly comprehends that death Is
no evil; to know how to die delivers us
from all subsection and constraint.
We die every day; every moment de-
prives us of a portion of our life and ad
vances us a step toward the grave; our
whole life is long and painful illness.
When sc take-pe0ple as they are, We
make them worse; when we treat them
as If they were what they should be,
we improve them as far as they can be
improved.
Piety must be habitual, not by fits.
1t cannot be put on when Sunday
comes, and discarded when 1t is over.
That would be the basest kind OF
hypocrisy.
Death opens the gate of fame, and
shuts the gate of envy after it; 1t un-
lOosens the chain of the captive, and
puts the bondsman's task into another
mrn's hand.
Many an honest man practices upon
himself an amount of deceit sufficient,
If practiced upon another, and in lit
tie different way, TO send him to the
State Prison.
Humility and love, whatever ObscurI-
ties may involve religious tenets, con-
stitute the essence of true religion. The
humble is formed to adorn the loving,
to associate with eternal love.
So scanty is our present allow anoe OF
happiness, that in many situations, life
could scarcely be supported If hope were
not allowed TO relieve the present hour
by pleasures borrowed from the future.
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows
up all virtues, and the self.made sepul-
chre of living man. The idle man Is
the DEVILS urchin, whose livery Is rags,
and whose diet and wages are famine
and disease.
We should never so entirely avoid
danger as to appear irresolute and cow
ardly; but, at the same time, we should
avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves
TO danger, than which nothing could be
more foolish.
There is not single dispensatiOn Of
Providence which, if properly viewed,
will not afford an excellent lesson.
Never repine at the good fortune of
others; for many are they who wish 10
be raised to your attention.
Self-examination is not simply hunt
ing for disagreeable qualities of char
acter. How does man examine his
business, take account of stock? He
does not look up simply the debts, but
examines all, and says this is good, this
is bad, this is doubtful.
Those can most easily dispense with
society who are the most calculated to
adorn it; they only are dependant on
it who possess no mental resources, for
though they bring nothing to the gen
eral mart, like beggars they are too
poor to stay at home.
One ought to love society, If he wishes
to enjoy solitude. 1t is social nature
that solitude works upon with the most
various power. If one is misanthrOpic,
and betakes himself to loneliness that
he may get away from hateful things.
solitude is a silent emptiness to him.
Zimmerman.
Faithfulness and constancy mean
something else besides doing what
easiest and pleasant to ourselves. The
mean renouncing whatever is oppose
to the reliance others have in us
whatever would cause misery to those
whom the course of our lives has been
dependent on us.
The only way of keeping a secret is
to forget it as soon as communicated.
You may have a considerable reputation
| for consistency In this matter, thus
easily acquired. The only secret worth
knowing in this life is, how one man
can contrive to be better of than
another; all the rest is mere alchemy.
Charity towards those who think just
with ourselves, Is but an enlarged sell
fishness; we are pleased to look at the
reflection of our own fair orthodoxy In
the mirror of their minds. But to feel
that charity, and to manifest 1t in def
ance of the points on which we differ,
REQUIRES and implies higher principle.
| Rogers.
Life is itself neither good nor evil; 1t
is the scene ofgood or evil, as you make
1t; and if you have lived day you have
seen all one day is equal and alike to
all other days; there is no other light;
no other shade; this very order and
revolution of things is the same that
your ancestors enjoyed, and that shall
also entertain your posterity. Mon
tdi0ne.
A man of genius seeks applause;
while the little-minded of those who
have but small portion of Intellect,
try, by their vanity and cOnceited boast
! ings, to build upon the mental resources
of others their own fame and reputation.
However, it is for the best, for they
soon fall to their proper level--once they
reach it, they never rise.
In the first year of life, self is the
largest thing. There 10 no wisdom ike
ones own wisdom, no laws like the
hearts own wish. The will power ola
young man seems to grow more rapidly
Than fhe reflective faculty, and hence TO
find youth who has the VIII OF
giant, and the reflection OF mere chilu
is one of the most frequent discoveries
of him who walks among his Iellow-
men.
A man may be supposed to save
monav and Law Il BY for sickness or