The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-10-03
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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cackle so much about the egg they mean
to lay that they never lay any egg at all.
"Mother," exclaimed little poet OF
four summers, "1lsten to the wind
making music for the leaves TO dance
by"
Only Providence could create day
and night; but the commonest idler
can turn day into night and night into
day.
There Is In man a higher love than
love OF happiness. He can do without
happiness, and instead thereof find bles-
sedness.
Always meet pretence with gentle
ness and perverseness with kindness.
A gentle hand can lead even an elephant
by hair.
Self-love is medium of a peculiar
kind; 1t magniiies everything which is
amiss In others, at the same time that 1t
lessons everything that is amiss In our
selves.
The worst SANDER often has In 1t some
truth, from which we may learn les
son that may make us wiser, and, if we
will, better, when the first smart of 1t is
over.
The plain and wholesome things of
life are It's greatest blessings. We are
tasght to pray not for luxuries or dain-
ties, but for daily bread.
The world never harms Christian
so long as he keeps 1t out of his heart.
Temptation Is never dangerous until II
has an inside accomplice. Sin within
betrays the heart TO the outside assail-
ant.
Persons who make peculiar profess
sion of godliness should be peculiarly
circumspect in their moral walk; else
they hurt not only their own character,
but aoove all, the cause of religion It.
self.
1t is most important lesson, and too
little thought of, that we learn how to
enjoy ordinary life, and to be able to
relish our being, without the transport
of some passion, or the qualification of
some appetite.
There are souls which fall from hea-
ven like flowers; but ere the pure and
fresh buds can open they are trodden
In the dust of the earth, and lie soiled
and crushed under the foul tread of
some brutal hoOf.
1t is such a piece of good luck to be
natural! 1t is the good gilt which the
fairy godmother brings to her prime
favOrites in the cradle. If man have
it not he will never find it, for when
sought it is gone.
1t is by the promulgation of sound
morals In the community, and more
especially by the training and instruc-
tion of the young, that woman performs
her part toward the preservation of
free government.
The best books for us are not always
those which the wise recommend, but
often those which meet our peculiar
wants, and the natural thirst of our
minds, and which, therefore, awaken in
terest and rivet thought.
Many of us have to lament, not so
much want of opportunities In life, as
our unreadiness for them when they
come. at might haveIbeen" Is the Ian
guage of our hearts Oftener than words
of complaint and murmuring.
When you have anything to commu-
nicate that will distress the heart of
the person whom 1t concerns, be silent
in order that he may hear it from some
one else. o, nightingale bring thou
the glad tidings of spring and leave bad
news TO the owl.
No mans spirit is very much hurt by
hn
good action, one temptation resisted and
overcome, one sacrifice Of desire or in
terest, purely for conscience's sake,
will prove cordial for weak and low
spirits beyond what either Indulgence
or diversion or company can do for
them.
Gold is obtained from the mine by
digging the earth, and from the miser
by digging his soul. Men of groveling
expend not and hoard with
care, saying that the hopes of expend-
ing are better than having spent. You
will see one day, according to the wish
Of the enemy, the money left and the
wretch dead.
Sorrow, for the most part, not only
puriies but enriches, not only disci-
plines but ennobles. BY affliction we
are made better friends and more SYM
pathetic companions, braver to meet and
stronger to bear misfortune, and
into grander form through
out than we could ever have attained
without this suffering which has been a
hard but benevolent tssk.master.
Let men tremble to win the hand of
woman, unless they win with 1t the ut
most passion of her heart. Else it NAV
be their miserable fortune, when some
mightier touch than their own may
have awakened all her sensibilities, to
be reproached even for the calm con-
tent, the marble image of happiness,
which will have to be imposed upon her
as the warm reality.
If you aspire to be son of consola-
lion fyou would partake of the priestly
gift of sympathy; II you would pour
beyond commonplace conso.
Iation into tempted heart; If you
would pass through the intercourse of
daily life with the delicate tact which
never inficts pain; If, to that most
acute of human ailments, mental doubt,
yOu arc ONOi iOdu1 w RiNO CuCCJudi sue
cor, you must be content to pay the
price of the costly education. Like
Christ, you must tsuffer-being tempted.
Idleness is the badge of gentry, the
bane of the body and mind, the nurse
of naughtiness, the step-mother of dlsci-
pline, the chief author of all mischief,
one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion
upon which the devil chiefly reposes
and a great cause not only of melan-
choly, but many other diseases; for the
mind is naturally active, and ifit be not
occupied about some honest business, 1t
rushes into mischief or sinks into mel
A man ought never to get rid Of his
childhood. He may put away childish
things and yet retain what Is sweet and