The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-01-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The flower Of sweetest smell Is shy
and lowly.
A happy set OF men = Soldiers in
transports.
Nothing but a good life can 1T men
/ for better one.
A cheerful hope brings light out Of
darkness and keeps US steady and un-
moved.
Sacrifice thy will for others, that
they may be disposed TO sacrifice their
wills for thee.
People learn wisdom from experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see 1t laugh.
The man who is taught In the school
Of experience will never forget the les
sons learned there.
Man wastes his mornings In anticipi-
| ting his afternoons, and wastes his
afternoons in regretting his mornings.
A great secret Of education Is TO make
she exercises Of the body and those OF
the mind serve always as a recreation
70 each other.
When a woman smiles at an affront,
one Of two things Is certain. She has
| either lost all modesty or she Is assured
Of her revenge.
Men rather trust to their eyes than
their ears; the effect of precept is there
fore slow and tedious, whilst that OF ex.
ample is summary and effectual.
There is q wonderful vigor Of consti-
tuition in popular fsllacy. When the
world has once got hold of lie, IL is a..
tonishing how hard it is 10 get it out Of
the world.
God Is light that is never darkened;
an unwearied life that cannot die; a
fountain always flowing; garden of
life; seminary Of wisdom.
We often seem to imagine that the
property of the mind resembles the pro.
perty OF sea water, that IL loses all its
deleterious particles, when once 1t is
fairly frozen.
Ii is as difficult to win over an enthu-
siast by force Of reasoning, as 10 per-
suade lover OF his mistress faults; or
TO convince a man who is at law Of the
badness Of his cause.
Such as have virtue always in their
mouth and neglect ii in practice are
like harp which emits q sound plea
sing TO others, while its own body Is
wholly insensible to the music pro.
duced.
A resolution that is communicated Is
no longer In thy power; thy intentions
now become the plaything OF chance;
he who would have his commands Ger
tainly carried out must take man bv
surprise.
Kindnesses do not always produce
what we expect; from hand which we
hate they are regarded as offences; the
more we lavish upon one who may hate
US, the more arms We give him who
wishes TO betrsy US.
Pure Imagination, of which the love-
liest of winged creatures is the fitting
emblem, seems always &c gain In yigor
and grace by the tempests it eneoun-
ters, and in contrary winds TO show
the brightest plumage.
A good conscience is better than two
witnesses. Ii will consume your grief
as the sun dissolves ice. Ii is spring
when you are thirsty; a staff when you
are weary 8 screen when the sun burns
you, and pillow in death.
The men whose minds and hands are
busy, find no time TO weep and wall. IL
work is slack, spend the time in study
ing; no man ever knew too much; the
hardest students in the world are the
old men who know the most.
Never was human machine pro-
duced without many trials and many
failures; whereas this universe, In ali
its endless comDlication, was perfect at
it's production, perfected in the ideas Of
it's great Author, even from eternity.
Too much reproach ''o'erleaps itself,
and falls on t'other side" Pncked too
sharply, the delinquent, like q goaded
bull, grows sullen and savage, and the
persecution continuing, ends In rush
ing madly on the spear that wounds
him.-B0res.
1t Is both a misery and shame for
man TO be bankrupt in love, which he
may easily pay and be never the more
impoverished. / will be in no mans
debt for good will, but will at LEASE re-
turn every man his own measure, II
not with usury.
Love is the regusnt attribute Of the
divine nature; do not find any other
so expressed in Scripture. We do not
find ii said, God is mercy, God Is love,
God is wisdom. No; the expression Of
this attribute has something peculiar Ia
it-"God is love. ."-ErskiHe.
Nations that 90 to war usually i'm
agine that they have good reasons for so
doing, but, a. Mr.. Bright sagely re-
marked, in late speech: at was al
.lSaaovaraa Acc ny ton uaarz ftar
a war, that the reason had not been suf-
waste OF money"
The world produces, for every pint
of honey, 3 gallon Of gall; for every
drachm Of pleasure pound Of pain;
for every inch Of mirth, an ell Of moan;
and as ivy twines around the oak, 90 do
misery and misfortune encompass the
happiness Of man. Felicity--pure, un-
alloyed feliclty--is not plant Of earthly
growth; her gardens are the skies.
1t is in the minute circumstances ofa
mans conduct that we are to inquire
for his real character. In these he is
under the influence Of his natural dis
position, and acts for himself; while In
bis more open and important actions he
may be drawn by public opinion, and
many other external motives, from that
bias which his disposition would have
taken.
By wondrous susceptibility TO all
the impressions Of nature, the man finds
himself the receptacle Of celestial
thoughts, OF happy relations to all men.
The imagination enriches him, as IL
there were no other; the memory opens
all her cabinets and archives; science
her length and breadth; poetry her
splendor and JOY, and the august circles
Of eternal JOY.