The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-02-21
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Faith is necessary to victory.

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up In Justice"
Whoever conquers Incidence can con-
quer most things.
However little we have to do, let us
do that little we'll.
Learn not to judge too harshly OF any
one, either In respect to good or evil.
Active natures are rarely melancholy.
Activity and melancholy are incom-
patible.
Occasions of trouble and adversity do
not make a man frail, but they show
what he is.
He who has health has hope; and he
who has hope, If held by faith, has
everything.
The pungency of pleasure is as tran
sient as the foam that mantles around
its brimming cup.
There is nothing that so convinces a
man that there is truth In religion as to
see true religion in Christians.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue. Good
character is above all things else.
The Germans have this good proverb:
hNNCl dluls ItNtT
poverish, nor prayers hinder any work.
Make no haste to be rich II you would
prosper. Small and steady gains give
competency with tranquility of mind.
Their are some persons on whom
their faults fit well, and others who are
made ungraceful by their good quail.
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If you cannot inspire woman with
love of you, fill her above the brim with
love OF herself; all that runs over will
be yours.
Jealous men are ever displaying TO
you the strength of their belief, while
jndiclous men are showing you the
grounds of it.
Happiness is in taste and not in
things; and it is by having what wc
love that we are happy, not by having
what others find agreeable.
Death opens the gate of fame, and
shuts the gate OF envy after it.; it UNI
looses the chain of activity, and makes
the bondsman's task another's.
Live on what you have; live if you
can on less; do not borrow, either for
vanity or pleasure; the vanity will end
in shame and the vanity in regret.
Conscience is a sleeping giant; we
may lull him into longer or shorter
slumber; but his starts are frightful;
and terrible is the hour when he
awakens.
Solon being asked why, among his
laws, there was not one against personal
atfrOnts, answered that nc could not be-
lieve the world so fantastcal as to re-
gard them.
We often seem to imagine that the
property of the mind resembles the
property of sea water, and loses all Its
deleterious particles when once 1t is
fairly frozen.
There is an old German proverb to
the effect that great war leaves the
country with three armies--an army of
cripples, an army of mOurners and an
army of thieves.
Before thou reprehend another, take
heed thou art not culpable in what thou
goest about to reprehend. He that
cleanses a blot with blottcd fingers
makes greater blur.
Say nothing respecting yourself,
either good, bad or Indifferent; nothing
good, for that is vanity; nothing bad,
for that is atiectation; nothing indif-
ferent for that is silly.
Human life defined by line Is as un-
comfortable as would be human fig.
ure defined by a wire. One prefers a
little mist about it, where hope may
put out II wondering hand.
Repose and cheerfulness are the
badge of the gentleman-repose in
energy. The Greek battle pieces are
calm; the heroes. in whatever violent
action they are engaged, retain a serene
aspect.
He that tears away a mans good
name tears his flesh from his bones, and
by letting him live gives him only a
cruel opportunity of feeling his misery,
of burying his better part and surviving
himself.
But little men do perceive what sOli-
tude is, and how far it extends. For
crowd s no company. Mems faces are
hut like pictures in gallery, and talk
but tinkling cymbal, where there is
no love.
An old minister advises his young
brethren to make bonfire of their SER
mons every two years. 1t would be
well enough to put the old ones in the
fire if you could put the fire into the
new ones.
Life is shortened by indulgence in
anger, ill will, anxiety, envy, grief,
sorrow and expressive care. The vital
powers are wasted by excessive bodily
exercise in some cases, and want of
portion in others.
Solitude is one of the highest enjoy
ments OF which our nature is suscepti-
BILE. Solitude also is, when too long
continued, capable of being made the
most severe, ,indescribable, unendura le
source of anguish.
Have you known how to compose
your mannersp You have done great
ieal more than he who has composed
books. Have you known how to take
reposep You have done more than he
who has taken cities and empires.
"Civilization," said father to his
son, the other day, "difiers
rom barbarism in this the one kills its
enemies off at six thousand PAGES with
/ cannon-ball; the other cuts off their
heads with sabre at close quarters"
Pride is as loud beggar as want, and
/ great deal more saucy. When you
nave bought one fine thing, you must
)uy ten more, that your appearance
nay be all of piece; but it is easier to
suppress the first desire than to satisfy
Ill that follow 1t.
A people never fairly begins to pros
,er till necessity is treading on its
reels. The growing want of room Ia
me OF the sources of civilization. Popu-
alton is power, but It must be a popu.
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