West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-10
NO. 80.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

would break.
Honest mems words are as good as
their bonds
lie hath lived an who knows not how
To die we'll.
no good.
children are certain cares but un-
certain Z pmfortS.
An hour of pain is as long as day
of pleasure.
Choose wife rather by your ear
than your eve.
Attention to little things Is the econ
omy of virtue.
Blessings are often not valued till
All between the cradle and the coffin
| Is uncertain.
Charity begins at home, but should
not end there.
lie that gives his heart win not deny
his money.
Dost ,hou love life, then do not sauan
der time, for that Is the stun LIE IL
made of.
Good thoughts, like rose leaves, give
out sweet smell IL laid up I'm the lar OF
memory.
The wealth of a man is the number
of things that he loves and blrssrs
.
The most terrible storm of real woe I'm
a mans heart rarely nings its rroth
ana foam as nigh aS his lips.
Evil is like n nightmare; the Instant
You begin 10 strive with it, to bestir
yourself, it is already ended.
The praise and blame which hang o.
the lowest boughs, and may be easily
pluckcd, are generally worthless
! Domestic rule Is founded upon truth
aud love, If IL has not both of these, IL
Is nothing better than dcspotsm.
Measure Christianity by its teachings.
and not by the shOrt-sightcd, selfish,
practices of u few unworthy followers
Some thoughts are prayers. There
are moments when, Whatever be- the
attitude of the body, the soul is on lts
knees.
There Is just now II great clamor and
demand for culture" bus IL Is not so
much culture that Is needed as disci-
pliue
How great ones virtue Is best appears
10y occasions of adversely for occnsions
do not make man frail, but show
what he Is.
The hardest life a man can lead on
earth, the most fertile ofmlsary ,isto be
always doing his own VIII and seeking
to please himself.
soul by sadness. Ali nature rcioices Ia
its Creator, Would you remain in
sOrrowlul silenccl
There is i'm Christianity light enough
for those who sincerely wish to see IT,
and darkness enough to ConfOund those,
of an opposite disposition,
II thou carry the cross willingly, 1t
will carry thee and bring thee To thy de-
sired end-to wit, to take place where
there will be an end of suffering.
Never refuse To receive an apology.
You may not receive friendship, but
courtesy VIE require, when an apology
Is offered, that you accept of it.
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt
and rolled In sugar, but within are full
Of bitterness, even 80 lustful pleasure
is no sooner matched, but repentance is
at hand ready to suUplant her.
We love our friends all the time
when we are absorbed Ia working for
them that we seldom think of them, as
well as when telling them Of our re
CARDS.
Wealth bears heavier on talent than
poverty. Under gold mountains ana
stones who knows now many "A spirit
ual giant may be crushed down and
buried.
You will generally suffer for wishing
TO appear other than what YOU are
whether it be richer, or greater or more
learned. The mask soon becomes an
Instrument Of torture.
lie who spends his life la accumulat-
ing knowledge which is never adapted
to the wants of society is u literary
miser. Ills ginings bear no interest,
and he dcfrauds mankind of their just
dues.
But little do men perceive what soil.
II. Il L.. T..
crowd rs no company; mems faces are
but like pictures la a gallery, aud talk
but a tinkling cymbal, where there j.
no love.
If men would use as much diligence
In roofing out vices and planting yir-
tues, as they do i'm proposing questions
there would not be so great evils com
mitted nor scandals among the people,
nor so much relaxation in monasteries.
There is still such reality "a intel
lcctual honesty, even i'm our easy gong
days. 10 does matter what a man be-
liCves, though some Of us have been
forward and foolish enough TO say that
10 did not.
We must not make unreasonable al
lusious to religion, or irritate by mis-
placed sOlemnity. AR inward inspira-
zion, or mOmcutary elevation Of the
soul 10 God, will often do more even
for others than the hearing OF am open
testimony, which principle does not re-
quire and at which offence will most
inevitably Doe taken.
Calling on "a fellow director at the
Royal ln-titutiOn, who was partially
paraiyzod, Faradav said, "YOu aud
are waiting; and we must try and do 10
patiently" 10 the Count Of Paris
who had invited him to Twickenham
he wrote, 'J bow before Him who is
Lord Of all, and hope to be kept wait
ing patiently for His time and mode OF
releasing me according to His Divine
word, and the great and precious pro-
misses whereby Ills people are made
partakers of the Divine nature" 10
another friend he wrote, 81 have told
several what may be my own dcsire--
tO have plain simple funeral, attended
by none but my own relatives, follow
ed by gravestOne Of the most ordinary
kind, In the simplest earthly place
When askep how he was ne wcred,
'Just waiting ;' and he sat 40 the win
dow OF the house no Hampton Court
watching now the people ON the green
now the ever changing beauty OF the