The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

wlnter-tit emblem OF our lie, at once
dark, cold and short.
In religion, not to do as thou sayest is
TO unsay thy religion in thy deeds and
to undo thyself by doing.
Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds,
whicn seem black in the distance, but
grow lighter as they approach.
Virtue does not give talents, but sup
plies their place. Talents neither give
virtue nor supply the place of 1t.
Nothing is more common than TO try
to reconcile our conscience 10 our evil
thoughts by our good conscience.
Some people live with purposes, and
some pass through the world like
straw on r,rcT-mere passengers.
Some people have softening of tie
brain, but the world suffers mere from
those who have hardening of the heart.
The treasures of the deep are not SO
precious as are the concealed comforts
of man locked up in woInan's love.
The rich find relations in the most re-
mote foreign countries; the poor not
even in the bosoms of their own fami-
lies.
We may have many acquaintances,
but few friends; this made Aristotle say
that he that hath many friends hath
none.
The prison is shut night and day, yet
it is always full; the temples are
always open, and yet you find no one in
them.
He that has tasted the bitterness of
sin will fear to commit it.; and he that
hath felt the sweetness of mercy will
fear to offend it.
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to
discover as real poverty. An instructive
delicacy hides the rags of the one and
the wounds of the other.
If the heart does not go with the head,
| the best thoughts give only the light.
This is why science is so little persua-
sive and prObity so eloquent.
He that discovers himself till he hath
made himself master of his desires lays
himself open to his own ruin, and makes
himself prisoner to his own tongue,
The real wants of nature are the mea-
sure of enjoyments, as the foot is the
measure Of the shoe. We can call only
the want of what is necessary poverty.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity
as well as under adversely. A strong
man has two highest tides-when the
moon is at the full and whe n there is
no moon.
Happiness between man and wife can
only be secured by that constant ten
derness and care of the parties for each
other which are based upon warm and
demonstrative love.
1t will not always do to speak the
pain truth. If man we're set out by
calling everything by its proper name,
he would be knocked down before he
got to the first corner.
Love teaches cunning even to inno-
cence; and, when he gets possession,
his first work is to dig deep within a
heart and there lie hid, and, like miser
in the dark, to feast alone.
Wit loses its respect with the good
when seen in company with malice;
and to smile at the jest which plants
thorn in another's breast is to become
principal in the mischief.
When the Breton mariner puts to sea
his prayer is, "Keep me, my God; my
boat is so small and the ocean so wide."
Does not this beautiful prayer truly ex-
press the condition of us?
If we would have powerful minds, we
must think; If we would have faithful
hearts, we must love; if we would have
strong muscles, we must labor. These
include all that is valuable in life.
Heat and animosity, contest and con-
tlict may sharpen the wits, although
they rarely do; they never strengthen
the understanding, clear the perspi-
cacity, guide the judgment, or improve
the heart.
Sleep, thou repose of all things;
sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou
peace of the mind, from which care
flies; who dost soothe the hearts of men
wearied with the tolls of the day, and
refittest them for labor.
1t is not possible to be regarded with
tenderness but by few. The merit which
gives greatness and renown diffuses its
influence to wide compass, but acts
weakly on every single breast; it is
placed at distance fsom common spec
tators, and shines like one of the re-
mote stars, of which the light reaches
us, but not the heat.
The safety and progress of humanity
depends upon each mans filling his
appointed place-no matter how humble
il seems-well. We are all workers
each class is dependent upon the other.
The rude fisherman of the Northern
sea, as a great English writer has finely
said, collects the oil which fills the
scholars lamp in the luxurious capital,
three thousand miles away.
They who have good health and light
breathing, whose system Is so sound
that they know rot they have system,
have little turn for disquisition on
health and respiration. But, just as
sickness and disease have compelled
men to study the bodily framework, so
doubt and mental ENHANCEMENT have
forced men to 60 into abtruse questions,
in order to meet the philosophy Of de-
nial with counter philosophy of faith.
An exacting temper is one against
which to guard both ones heart and
the nature of those who are under our
control and influence. To give and
allow, to suffer and to bear, are graces
more to the purpose Of a noble life, than
cold, exacting selfishness, which must
have, let who will go without, which
will not yield, let who will break. IL
is disastrous quality wherewith to go
through the world; for it receives as
much pain as it inflicts, and creates the
discomfort it deprecates.
1t has been my fortune to love In gen.
eral, those men most who have thought
differently from me,o subjects wherein
Others pardon no discordance. In my
opinion, have no more right to be
angry with man whose reason has
followed up a process different from
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