The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-21
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

than age or sorrow.
Fortune is the rod Of the weak and
the staff Of the brave.
Every nation may traffic In charity
and commute for pleasure.
Every child walks into existence
through the golden gate OF love.
Women are extreme in all points.
They are better or worse than men.
Death Is friend of ours, and he that
Is not ready to entertain him Is not at
home.
When we know how to appreciate a
merit, we have a germ Of 1t within our
selves.
Reproaches, unsupported by evil
dence, affect only the character of him
who utters them.
To gain extensive usefulness, seize
the present opportunity, great or small,
and improve It 70 the utmost.
Too much attention cannot be be-
slowed on that important, yet much
neglected branch Of learning, the know
ledge Of mans Ignorance.
The more we expect from creatures,
the more we shall be disappointed, but
the more firmly we expect from God,
the more we shall enjoy.
A good moral character Is the first
essential In a man. 1t is, therefore,
highly important to endeavor not only
TO be learned. but TO be virtuous.
Ill fortunes only, not good fortunes,
reveal the strength Of great men; the
fragrance of aloewood is not 80 strong
as when it has fallen into the fire.
Uncertainty and expectation are prods
of life. Security is an insipld thing,
and the overtaking and possessing Of q
wish discovers the folly of the chase.
Great objects produce great men. A
man without an object resembles a fiy
that huns while the sun shines, and
drops in the dust without that genial
heat.
A statesman, we are told, shoald fol.
low public opinion. Doubtless as
cOachman follows his horses-having a
firm hold on the reins and guiding
them.
81 have" said DR.. Guthrie, "four
good reasons for being au abstainer---
my head is clearer, my health is better,
my heart is lighter, and my purse Is
Those born only once die twice-they
die temporal and they die an eternal
death. But they who are born twice
die only once, for over them the second
death has no power.
Haste usually turns upon matter Of
ten minutes too late, and may beavoided
by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, TO
which he ascribed his success in life, of
being ten minutes too early.
When thou forglvest, the man who
has pierced thy heart stands to thee In
the relation of the sea- worm that per-
Torates the shell of the mussel, which
'traightway closes the wound with q
pearl.
Let not the moralist be scandallzed;
pride is also vice. Pride, like ambi-
ion, Is sometimes virtuous and some
lines vicious, according to the character
n which it is found, and the object to
which 1t is directed.
The man who lives right, and Ia
light, has more power by his silence
han another has by his words. Char
4cter is like bells which ring out sweet
music, and which, when touched acoi-
lentally even, resound with sweet
music.
The greatest loss of time is delay and
expectation which depends upon the
uture. We let 20 the present which
We have In our power, and look fol ward
o that which depends upon chance
nd so relinquish certainty for an un-
ertainty.
Be stirring as the time, be fire with
Ire, threaten the threatener, and out
ace the brow Of Dragging horror; so
hall inferior eyes that borrow their
ehavior from the great grow great by
our example, and put on the dauntless
pirit OF resolution.
Every great writer is writer Of his
Dry, let him write on almost what sub.
,ct he may. He carries with him for
housands of years, q portion of his
mes; and. indeed, Il only his efigy
'ere there 1t would be greatly more
han fragment of his country.
Kind words and smiles, and genial
reetings and good wishes, are seeds
bat thrive and bear fruit, each after
Is own kind. Cheerfulness Is like tho
lldow's measure of meal-the more
pent the pore remains, and both the
eceiver and giver are enriched.
Never be too opinionated to accept
ood advice, by whomsoever offered.
let you must think for yourself. Itis
iell to listen to the expressed thoughts
f others, and 1t is an agreeable pastime
D give expression to your own
thoughts; but when alone weigh what
ou have said.
Oh, how we vitlate our best works
y letting the consideration of human
pplanse come into our reckouing while
10 do theml And how frequently we
re frightened into doing nothing by
he fear that If we do anything like
THAT we want TO do, our neighbors. will
reat us with ridcule or scorn.
"Hearts more or less, suppose"
ays Principal Sharpe, "most OF us
ave, but we keep them so close-cased
nd padlocked--we wear on outside so
ard or dry--that little or none OF the
,ve that may be within escapes to glad
en- those around US. Aud 30 life passes
'ithout any Of the sweetening to So
iety that comes when an affection 10
ot only felt but expressed"
There Is a region In Christian expert
nee where 1t Is safe to Judge. We
iean the fruits prove the work. Here
J the vital test. Let the profession be
That II may, II there be not the proper
nd corresponding fruit there Is failure.
he fruit Of all goodness Is the goodly
fe. Men may profess salnthood, but
lere must be the sanity walk, or the
iintly profession will be only the
lockery OF sounding brass.
The difference between men lies In
leir power and scope of rising above
an oanaao into tha rnninn .xft tIa a., uial