The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-07-18
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

A man who only eats and drinks is
counted mean, because he nourlshes
what is little to the neglect of what is
great.
How many of our writers most in
vogue should bear i'm mind that IL talent
supplements everything, 1t can dispense
with nothing.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden
rise of the mercury in the barometer,
indicate little else than the changeable-
ness of the weather.
As the behavior of the world towards ..
individuals of learning is respectful,
learned persons should have due re.
spect for themselves.
Conscience is great ledger-book, in
which all our offences are written and
registered, and which time reveals 70
the sense and feeling of the offender.
There is an appointment for every
thing. Therefore, he who has the true
idea Of what is heavens appointment,
will not stand beneath a precipitous
wall.
For rich man to make a will that
will please all his heirs, is about as diff
flcult task as for an editor to under
take to print a paper to please all his
readers.
Build not thy nest on any tree of
earth, seeing God hath sold the forest to
death; but rather soar upward to the
sure and immutable refuge in the clefts
Of the rock.
False happiness renders men stern
and proud, and the happiness is never
communicated. True happiness renders
them kind and sensible, and that hap
piness is always shared.
They who are first informed should
instruct those who are later In being
Informed; and those who first appre.
hend principles should instruct those
who are slower in doing so.
Reading maketh full man; conf
dence, a ready man; histories make men
wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,
subtle; natural philosophy, deep;
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
Some writer has aptly remarked:
"Take company of boys chasing but
terflies, put long-tailed coats on the
boys, and turn the butterflies into dol
lars, and you have fine panorama of
the world"
Talent is power; tact is skill. Talent
makes man respectable; tact makes
him respected. Talent convnces; tact
converts. Talent commands; tact is
obeyed. Talent is something; tact is
everything.
When we are young we waste great
deal of time in imagining what we will
do when we grow older, and when we
are old we waste an equal amount of
time in wondering why we waited SO
long before we began to do anything.
The magnanimous know very well
that they who give time or money or
shelter to the stranger-soit it be done for
love and not for OstentatiOn--do, as it
were, put God under obligation to them,
so perfect are the compensatiOns of the
universe.
Neither borrower nor lender be,
for loan oft loses both self and friend;
and borrowing dulls the edge of hus-
bandry. This above ALTO thine own
self be true, and it must follow, as the
day the night, thou canst not then
be false to any man.
"lf any one speak Ill of thee" said
Epictetus, "'cOnsider whether he hath
truth on his side, and if so, reform thy
self, so that his censures may not affect
thee." When AnaXimander was told
that the very boys laughed at his sing
ing, he said: "Ah then ! must learn
to sing better"
Truth from goodness, is soft and gen.
tie; falsehood from evil, is hard and
fierce; hence the origin of hard and bit.
ter speeches. Goodness Of disposition
manifests itself by gentleness and
sweetness; by gentleness, in that it is
afraid to do hurt, and by sweetness, in :
that it loves to do good.
o eloquent, just and mightie death,
whom none advise, thou hath per-
suaded; what none hath dared, thoU
hath done; and when all the world hath
tlattered, thou only hath cast out of the
world and despised. Thou hath drawne
together all the me.stretched great
ness, all the pride, crueltie and ambi-
tiOn of men, and covered it all over with
these two narrow words-"Hic jacet."
DR.. Kane, finding flower under the
Humboldt glacier, was more affected by
1t because IL grew beneath the lip and
cold bosom of the ice than he would
have been by the most gorgeous garden
bloom. So some single, struggling
grace in the heart of one far removed
from favoring influences may be dearer
to God than whole catalogue of virtues
in the life of one who has known little
| Of the uiapinlina of trial
One OF the pupils of Mencius asked
of his teacher, ''how is it that we see
superior men eating without labOring"
to which the instructor replied, "when
q superior man resides In a country, If
its sovereign employs its COunsels as he
ought. he comes to tranquility, wealth,
honor and glory. If the young follow
his instructions as they ought, they be-
come true-hearted and faithful" What
greater example than this Of not eating
the bread of idleness.
Working leaven favorably situated
will certainly show Itself The sponge
swells over the rim of the vessel some
times, and hangs like snow drifts to the
up the aims of life TO higher ends, does
not lift up the frowns of the face to
pleasant smiles, does not raise the ex.
pectations Of life to higher joys, must
be poor leaven; or otherwise must be
surrounded by unfavorable conditions.
Get the best. Keep 1t warm and let 1t
work.
If every one did well the part assigned
them, what a delightful world would
be made out of this now dreary one.
Let us scatter roses where we now SOW
thorns, sunshine where we now cast
thick clouds of sorrow and woe, then
our lives will be joyous; and standing
at the threshold Of a brighter and purer
world and looking back over the bright