The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-29
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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discretion.
Some speakers and writers have
river OF words, but only spoonful o.
thoughts.
True wisdom is to know what Is bes
worth knowing, and TO do that which IL
best worth doing.
When any calamity has been suffered
the first thing TO be remembered is how
much has been escaped.
Contentment Is not happiness. An
oyster may be contented. Happiness
Is compounded OF richer elements.
We should do by our cunning as we
do by our courage-alway have IL ready
TO defend ourselves, never to offend
others
1t is better to be builder Of our own
name than TO be indebted to descent for
the proudest gifts known TO the book s
of heraldry.
God be thanked for books. They are
the voices of the distant and the dead.
and make us heirs of the spiritual life
of past ages.
1t is great blunder In the pursuit of
happiness not to know when we have
got IL; that is, not to be content with a
reasonable and possible measure of IL.
One ray of light from the eternal sun
Is an Infinitely better guide to man over
llie's mysterious sea, than the most In
genious system of fog-bells ever in
vented.
what Is even poverty itself, that a
man should murmur under itP 1t is
but as the pain of piercing malden's
ear, and you hang precious jewels in the
wound.
We believe, upon the testimony of
man, that Washington once lived upon
earth; how strange that we cannot be-
lleVe the testimony of God concerning
his Son.
In his Good Friday sermon, Cardinal
Manning defined "society" as "a con-
splracy of fools, fashion, custom, mu-
tual hattery, eating, drinking and re-
fined hardness of heart"
The mind has certain vegetatiye
power, which cannot be wholly idle. If
IL is not LAID out and cultivated into
beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot
up weeds or flowers of wild growth.
Tears and sorrows and losses are part
OF what must be experienced in this
present state of life; some for our mani
fest good, and all, therefore, it is
trusted, for our good concealed our
hnsl and greatest good.
In all worldly things that man par
sues, with the greatest eagerness and
Intention of mind imaginable, he finds
uOt half the pleasure in the actual pos
session of them, as he proposed to him
self in the expectation.
All men need something to poetize
and idealize their life little, something
which they value for more than its use,
and which Is a symbol of their emanci-
patton from the mere materialism and
drudgsry of daily life.
] do not like punishments. You will
never torture child into duty; but
sensible child will dread the frOwn of a
judicious mother more than all the
rods, dark rooms and scolding school,
mistresses in the universe.
If virtue promises happiness, pros.
perlty and peace, then progress in vir-
tue ls certainly progress in each of
these. For 10 whatever point of perfec-
tion anything brings us, progress is
always an approach towards it.
Let those who are appointed to Judge
of the characters of others bear in mind
their own mpertections, and rather
strive by sympathy to soften the pang
arising from conviction of guilt than
by Misrepresentation to increase it.
Good breeding is not confined to ex-
ternals, much less to any particular
dress or attitude of the body. 1t is the
art OF pleasing, or contributing, as
much as possible, to the ease and hap
piness of those with whom you con-
verse.
Old age likes to dwell in the recollec-
tlOns OF the past, and mistaking the
speedy march of years, often is inclined
to take the prudence of the winter time
for fit wisdom of midsummer days.
Manhood is bent to the passing cares of
the passing moment, and holds so
closely to his eyes the sheet of go 0-day"
that 1t screens the "to morrow" from
his sight.
God does not call US always to labor
as man counts labor. He sets us often
in solitary and hard ways, laying upon
us only burdens of suffering and utter
weakness and helplessness. And then
when life is gone and the world says:
"Ths man lived in vain," God reckons
up the account, and over against the
loss and emptiness and waste of life He
writes: "Well done, good and faithful
Young man, remember that some op
portunities occur but once; mistake
then is mistake for life and for eter-
nifty. Hear the voice of the blessed Sa-
viour, "Seek first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness" Say not to-
morrow | will do SO, but make the re-
quired sacrifice at once, and devote your
heart, your Influence and your life to
Christ. "Seek him while he may be
found"
Don't be discouraged if, in the outset
of life, things do not go on smoothly.
1t seldom happens that the hopes we
cherish for the future are realized. The
path of life appears smooth and EASY.
but when we come to travel IL, we find
it uphill and trying enough. Don't be
discouraged under any circumstances.
Go steadily forward. Rather consult
your own conscience than the opinion
of men, though the latter is not to be
disregarded.
The use of long words which we get
from other tongues not only makes our
thoughts and our speech dim and hazy,
but il has done somewhat to harm the
of our people. Crime sometimes
does not look like crime when IL is set
before us in the many folds of long
word. When man steals and we call
It "defalcation," we are at a loss to know
If 1t is a blunder or crime. IL he does
not tel the truth, and we are told 1t Is
a case of prevarication, 1t takes US some
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