The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-07-25
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

he Is liar.
There is somewhere fool-key to your
friends nature, and If you can find it
you can make him dance to any tune
you may whistle.
Where the heart goes before, like
lamp, and eliminates the pathway,
many things are made clear that else lie
hidden in darkness.
II you have improved your under
standing and studied virtue, you have
only done your duty, and thus there
seems little reason for vanity.
How learn to know yourself? Not
by contemplation, but by action. Strive
to do your duty, and you will soon dis
cover what stuff you are made OF.
A man should be virtuous for his own
sake, though nobody were to know it;
as he would be clean for his own sake,
though nobody were TO see him.
There are many who say more than
the truth on some occasions and balance
the account with their consciences by
saying less than the truth on others.
There is no widow so utterly widowed
in her circumstances as she who has
a drunken husband; no orphan so des-
titute as he who has drunken father.
You must never be satisfied with the
surface OF things; probe it to the bottom
and let nothing 90 until you understand
1t as thoroughly as your powers will
enaOle you.
The tablet Of the heart should be kept
so pure in purpose and so spOtless from
deception, evil thinking and wrong
doing, that gainsaying world could
not reproach it.
Anxiety is the poison of life, the
parent of many siLs and of more
miseries. Why, then, allow it, when
we know that all the future isguided by
Fathers handP
Be careful to speak in a tender, kind
and loving way. Even when you have
occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it
with manifest kindness. The effect will
be incalculably better.
There is no such thing as posthumous
charity. There may be equity, or pro-
priety, in last designation of earthly
goods, but in real or intrinsic generosity
or benevolence there is not.
If you would be exempt from uneasi-
ness, do nothing which you know or
suspect is wrong. And if you wish to
enjoy the purest pleasure, do whatever
is III your power that is right.
1t is not worth while to think too
much about doing good. Doing the best
that we know, minute by minute and
hour by hour, we insensibly grow to
goodness as fruit grows to ripeness.
The worst fraud that can be practiced
in free government is cheating at
elections. 1t nulliftes the popular will,
brings the suffrage into contempt, and
makes good men shun public affairs.
If few words render a man happy,
he must be wretch indeed who will
not give them to him. Let another man
light his candle by your own, and yours
loses none of its brilliancy by what his
gains.
Good breeding is guard upon the
tongue; the misfortune is that we put
it OFF and on with our fine clothes and
and visiting manners, and we do not
wear it where 1t is wanted the most
at home.
A good name is best won by good
deeds. There is no surer way of being
well thought of than by deserving well.
"1ou have little world all around
you," wrote Daniel Webster to an early
friend; "tlll it with good deeds, and
you will fill it with your own glory"
When man thinks that nobody
cares for him, and that he is alone In
cold and selfish world, he would do well
to ask himself this question: What
have done to make anybody care for
and love me, and to warm the world
with faith and generosity? 1t is gen.
orally the case that those who complain
the most have done the least. g.
Whoever possessed integrity that did
not derive untold advantage from itP 1t
is better than riches, it is of more value
than diamonds and all precious stones;
and yet every man may possess 1t. The
poorest may have it, and no power on
earth can wrest it from them. The
young should prize integrity of charac.
ter above all earthly gifts.
Religion cultivated to the absolute
neglect of science, would lead to reign
of superstition, tyranny and barbarism,
like that which covered Europe In the
dark ages OF the church. Science culti-
waited to the utter neglect of religion,
would lead to the reign of intidelity, inn
piety and sensuality. The two interests
united, correct and perfect each other.
Temper makes OF mars more happi-
ness than any other quality. How much
influence there Is In one OF those bright
cheerful, wholesome tempers, which
neither make troubles where they do
not exist, nor meets them half way
when they dol Where others might be
inclined to fret peevishly over this petty
annoyance and that small trial, the
good tempered person makes light of
this one, and bears with patience what
cannot be avoided of the other.
All ills spring from some vice, either
in ourselves or In others; and even
many of our diseases proceed from the
same origin. Remove the vices and the
ills follow. You must only take care to
remove all the vices. If you remove
part, you may render the matter worse.
By banishing vicious luxury, without
curing sloth and an indifference to
others, you only diminish industry In
the State and add nothing to mems
charity or their generosity.
Goddess science, says Coley, reads
Nature only as Milton's daughters did
Hebrew-rightly syllabling the sem
tences, but utterly ignorant of the
meaning. Said Douglas Jerrold, 81
knew man who could speak five-and-
twenty languages, and he never said
anything worth hearing In any one Of
them" SO, until the moral nature is
open to truth, a man is blind to the real
beauty and significance Of the facts ac-
quired.
Idleness is the badge of gentry, the
bane of body and mind, the nurse of
naughtiness, the stepmother of disci-
pline, the chief author of all mischief,
one OF the ven deadly sins, the cushion
upon which the devil chiefly reposes,