The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-02-28
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

Double dealing is the certain Index
Of a base spirit.
Two things can never be successfu ly
counterfelted-modesty and common
sense.
One of the greatest wonders In this
world Is what becomes Of all the smart
children.
He that has more knowledge than
judgment Is made for another mans
use rather than his own.
1t Is better that woman should keep
her stockings In repair than that she
should know the origin Of the rainbow.
The purest treasure mortal times af-
ford is spotless reputation; that away,
men are but gllded loan or painted
clay.
Benefit your friends that they may
love you still more deeply; benefit your
enemies that they may become your
friends.
None Of us stand alone In the world,
and none OF us can sink into an abyss
of misery without dragging others
after us.
II you would find great many
faults, be on the lookout; but II you
want to find them in unlimited mum.
bers, be on the look in.
There is this difference between ha-
tired and pity: Pity is a thing often
avowed but seldom felt; hatred Is q
thing often felt but seldom avowed.
A generous nation is grateful even
for the preservation of its rights, and
willingly extends the reapect due to the
office of good prince into an affection
for his person.
Put a man into factory, as ignorant
how to prepare fabrics as some teachers
are to watch the growth of Juvenile
minds, and what havoc would be made
of the raw material.
COnceit Is generally proportionate
with high station, and the greatest
geniuses have not been entirely free
from it; what indeed is ambition but an
immoderate love of praise?
The triumphs of truth are the most
glorious, chiefly because they are the
most b,oodless of all victories, deriving
their highest lustre from the number OF
the saveC, not Of the slain.
Love teaches cunning even to lnno-
cence; and, when he gets possession,
his first work is to dig deep within a
heart and there lie hid, and like a miser
in the dark. feast alone.
1t is difficult to avoid envy without
laying ourselves open to conUempt; for
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on others, we lay ourselves open to be
trifed with and trampled on.
We must calculate not on the wea-
ther, nor on fortune, but upon God and
ourselves. He may fail US In the graft
tication of our wishes, but never In the
encounter with our exigencies.
The character of wise man consists
in three things: To do himself what he
tells others to do; to act on no oc casion
contrary to justice, and to bear with the
weaknesses of those about him.
There is latent heat in everything,
even In Ice. Water Is cold and sui
phuric acid is cold, but II these two
cold liquids are mixed together they
will at once produce intense heat.
Usefulness is confined to no station,
and 1t is astonishing how much good
may be done and what may be effected
by limited means, united with benevo-
Ience of heart and activity Of mind.
"The better the day the better the
deed,' 1t bad prOverb as 1t runs; but
read 1t backwards, as wizards undo
charms, and 1t is capital saying-"the
better the deed the better the day"
How nature delights and amuses US
BY varying even the character of in
'ects; the ill-nature of the wasp, the
of the drone, the volatility
Of the butterfly, and the shynesS OF tho
bug!
He only sees well who sees the whole
N the part, and The parts In the whole.
We know but three classes of men
hose who see the whole, those who see
1ut a part, and those who see both to.
yether.
She certainly is no true woman for
whom every man may not find 1t In his
leart to have certain gracious and
loly and honorable love; she is not a
woman who returns no love and asks
10 protection.
Quench not the spirit by any means;
'ut quench the fires of sin, Satan and
trife, by all means. Quench not the
of liberality or zeal, In your
elf or others, by procrastination or
ear of singularity.
If there Is man who can eat his
'read at peace with heaven and man, 1t
s that man who has brought that bread
'ut of the earth by his own honest in
lustry. 1t is cankered by no fraud-it
8 wet by no tear--it Is stained by no
,lood.
"Mum socials" are now a feature.
They are social gathering at which
III present are.prohibited, nnder a pen
'lty of stipulated fine, from speaking
,r whispering until a certain time
Turing the evening. 1t Is easy to see
hat such restriction must result In
IN amusing state of affairs.
The women In olden times were pro-
libited from marrying until they had
pun a set of bed furniture, and hence
hey were called spinsters until they
vele married. SO goes the story; BIT
the same requirements were
continued In these modern times-what
egimeEts of old maids there would be
True politeness consists not merely
n strict adherence to forms of cere-
nony; it ia in exquisite observance of
he feelings Of others, and an invariable
espect for those feelings. By this def
lition 1t claims alliance with benevO.
ence, and may sometimes be found as
,enuine In the cottage as In the court.
Shame is a feeling of proclamation.
love and piety ought to be
iandled with a sort Of mysterious
ccrecy; they ought to be spoken of
My in the rare moments of perfect
be mutually understood
n silence. Many things are too delicate
o be thought, many more, to he
poken.