The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-10-31
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

| VINO hath sorrow; who hath wOei
They that tarry long at the watermelon.
People always retain sufficient energy
to do that of which they are convinced.
Flowers are the sweetest thing that
God ever made and forgot TO put soul
into.
We are often more agreeable through
our faults than through our good quail
tiles.
Let memory fail so long as you can
rely on your judgment at a moments
notice.
Our greatest glory consists not In
never falling, but In rising every time
we fall.
Change of fashions Is the tax which
industry imposes on the the vanity of
the rich.
There Is no man so friendless but
that he can find friend sincere enough
TO tell him. his faults.
Politeness is money, which enrlches
not him who receives 1t, but him who
dispenses it.
You cannot dream yourself Into a
character you must hammer and forge
yourself one.
The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers is always the first to be touched
by the thorns.
Socrates being asked the way to hon
est fame, said, "Study to be what you
wish to SEEM"
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which
the sculp ptors put In the statues. 1t i'm
pales and sustains.
The fights of the human mind are
not from enjoyment to enjoyment, but
from hope to hope.
We often think ourselves full of phil
osophy when we are simply happy over
our food and drink.
The heart that 10 soonest awake to
the flowers is always the first to be
touched by the thorns.
The grandest of heroic deeds are those
which are performed within four walls
and in domestic privacy.
1t is always more safe, on matters of
healthy human sentiment, to trust to
poets than to philosophers.
Without belief In personal immor.
tality religion surely is like an arch
resting on one pillar, like bridge end
Ing In an abyss.
The sweat of ones brow is no longer
q curse when one works for God; 1t
proves tonic for the system and is
actually blessing.
An ignorant teacher is like blind
torch-bearer with an unlighted torch;
he holds it up, but it gives no light,
and he does not know 1t.
Charity toward the weaknesses of
human nature is a virtue which we de.
mand in others, but which we find very
hard to practice ourselves.
Memory and hope are set like stars
above the soul-the one shining dimly
through the twilight Of the past, the
other lighting the archway of the fut-
ure.
Education is not charity it Is
necessity, and parents are guilty of a
crime against the State when they re-
fuse to give their children decent
education.
A beautiful form is better than
beautiful face; beautiful behavior is
better than beautiful form; 1t gives
higher pleasure than statues and pic
lures 1t is the finest OF the fine arts.
protest against the unfair distribu-
ton of the worlds work, which can
only be well done when every man and
woman is fixed to work, and condemned
by public opinion if they refuse to
work.
We can easily manage if we will only
take, each day, the burden appointed
for it. But the load will be toe heavy
for us If we add to iUs weight the bur-
den of tomorrow before we are called
to bear it.
He that will put time and eternity
before him, and who will dare to look
steadfastly on both of them, will find
that the more often he cOntemplates
them the former will grow greater and
the latter less.
Want of goods is easily repaired;
poverty of soul is irreparable. Socrates,
seeing great quantity of riches, jewels
and furniture of great value carried In
pomp through the city: "low many
said he, edo not desireP"
Carry the radiance of yonr soul in
your face. Let the world have the
benefit of 1t. Let your cheerfulness he
felt for good wherever you are, and let
your smiles be created like sunbeams
''on the just as we'll as on the unjust"
There is no power like that of Oratory.
Cesar controlled men by exciting their
fears, Cicero by captivating their affec-
lions and swaying their passions. The
influence of one perished with its au-
thor; that of the other continues to this
day.
Men may as well expect to grow
stronger by always sitting, as wiser by
always reading. Too much overcharges
nature, and turns more into disease than
1t is thought, which Is
mental digestion, which makes books
3erviceable, and gives health and vigor
10 the mind.
The financial wrecks of our times,
the miseries endured by so-caled "suc-
cessful men," the ups and downs Of
life and the general unhap-
piness of the very rich, ought to teach
the philosophy of cOntentment to those
who enjoy respectable and modest In
come, without cares or harassments.
Many Of us have to lament, not so
much want of opportunities In life, as
our uneasiness for them when they
come. cit might have been," Is the
language of our hearts oftener than
words OF complaint and murmuring.
God sends us fax, but our spindle and
Ilistaff are out of repair or mslain, so
that we are not ready to use them.
There Is no place on earth where hu.
man feet stand so burdened with fearful
to God and to man, as
the pulpit of salvation. "Put OF thy
shoes from of thy feet" said God TO
Moses in the presence Of the burning
bush, "for the place whereon thou
standcst is holy ground" "Keep thy
foot .,,han thou coast IN the hense of