The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-16
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

we should labor not so much to Increase
our substance, as to moderate our DE-
sires. ",
Those who can themselves do good
service are but as one to a thousand
compared with those who can sec 'aults
IN the labors Of others.
IL Is better to wear out than to rust
out. we must not only strike the iron
while 1T Is hot, buC strike Until it ia
made hot.
Happy is he who has learned to do
the plain duty Of the moment quickly
and cheerfully, wherever and whatever
it may be.
The poorest Of the poor have been as
brave as the wealthy; the learned have
died gloriously, but the unlearned have
almost stolen the palm.
a mind trained to self-donial meets
Crlais with an amount of reserved moral
iorce quite ineXplicable to those less
habituateu to self-control.
man should never be ashamed tn
own he has been in the wrong: whioh
IS but saying, in other words, that he ia
wiser to-day than'hc was yesterday.
Good books effected In Loyola what
inc lear OF approaching death, a heav-
enly appar1tlon, Il miraculous restora-
tioh 10 health had failed to DO.
Error is blind, but reason Is argus-
eyed put the mass of mankind will
seek Lne HIST for counsel and wisdom
rather than the latter.
F1attcry IS safe coin which our own
vanity has made current, and will never
De out OF credit rs long as there are
knaves TO offer it and fools to receive it,
Low strange that the stratas of love
ana nate lie SO close together that t.
takes but little to bring the latter up-
pcrmost, when under the pressure OF
unklndneSs or injustice.
Tears do not dwell long on the checks
OF youth. Rain drops easily from The
Duu, rests OH The maturcr flower. and
breaks down That which has lived ita
day.
Our customs and habits are like the
ruts in roads. The wheels OF life settle
into them, and we jog along through
the mlre, because 1t Is too much trouble
to get out of them.
Thore are no hands upon the clock
OF eternity; there Is 10 shadow upon
It's dial. The very hours of Heaven
Will DC measured by the sunshine-not
by the shadow.
Beauty. like the Towering blossoms
soon fades; but the divine excellence of
tho mind, like the medical virtues of
inc plant remains In 1t when all those
charms are withercu.
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.
When you doubt between words. use
the plainest, the commonost, the most
idionatic. Eschcw fine words as Won
would rouge, love simple ones as you
would native roses on your cheek.
A sour godliness ohllls and 'represses
every bud OF hope about us; a sunny
soul klndles 1ntO a glow OF life and
lreshens the w.ole circle In which 1t
moves.
a mans character Is like his shadow
Which sometimes follows, and some
times precedes him, and which is occa
sionaily longer and occasionally shorter
tnan he ls.
knowledge will not be acquired with
out pains and application. 1t is troub-
iesonle ana deep digging foripure water;
Dlt when once you come to the springs
they rise up and meet you.
BE not diverted from yonr duty by
any Idle reflections the silly world NAV
make upon you, tor their censures are
not In your power, and they conse-
should not be any part OF your
concern.
A good deed Is never lost; he who
sows courtesy meets friendship; and he
who plants kindness gathers love plen-
nre bestowed upon grateful mind was
never sterile but generally begets re-
ward.
But little do men perceive what soli-
Jude Is, and how far 1t extends. For Il
crowd Is no company; mems faces are
but like pictures in a gallery, and talk
but tlnkllng cymbal where there Is no
love.
Truly has 1t been said. cmphatically
In these days ought to be repeated; n
loving heart is the beginning of all
knowledge: This 1t is that opens the
whole mind, qutcke rs every faculty of
the intellect to do it's fit work.
Avert your gaze from the crosses Of
the future, you see them without the
softening. sustaining grSce which ac-
companies them when they reach you.
Let all your efforts tend to bearing the
cross of tho present moment.
Don't you wish sometimes that the
world would stop talking and let you
think? And have you never been ex-
asporatcd to hear some one utter the
Wy thought which you had cherished
as all your own, and which you were
just going to utter?
Admonish friend ; it may be that he
hath not done 1t, that he do it no more.
Admonish thy friend; it may be he hath
not said 1t, but II he have, that lie
speak 1t no moro. Admonish friend:
for many times 1t Is a slander, and be-
lleve not every tale.
The art OF conversation consists in
the exercise Of two fine qualities. You
must originate and you must sympa-
thize. Yon must possess, at the same
time, the habits of communicating and
listening. The union Is rare, but ire
sstible.
Strive to gain new ideas not thought
of by others, tor they are the mothers
of progress. If we always retain our
old thoughts and cherish them as the
only truths, we stop In the dark and
will soon rapidly digress in wisdom and
power.