The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-03
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
DO not rip up old sores.
Doing nothing is doing Ill.

Fire and water are good servants, but
bad masters.
Great pain and little pain makes a
man weary.
Give a rogue rope enough and he'll
hang himself.
BE lively, but not light; solid, but
not sad. ..... .r.
Civiity IS always safe, but pride
creates enemies. ..... ....'
Better break thy word than do worse
IN keeping it.
Never write when In anger; your
writing may condemn you.
The longest and darkest Of all nights
is the night Of despair.
When rich rogues are merry. honest
folks may go into mourning.
lie who loses his temper in an argu-
meEC, loses the argument also.
The character that needs law to mend
1t Is hardly worth the tinkering.
Be respectful to all men, that you
| may command respect.
Belief Is not In our power, but truth
| fulness Is.
The Christian life Is not knowing or
hearing, but doing.
Blessed are the homesick, for they
shall come at last to the Fathers house.
Moderation is tho silken str'"s run
ming throug h the pearl "''@lh OF virtues
We should -s.cem virtues, tho ugh In
a foe, and abhor vice, though in Il
! rrlcnu.
Love can excuse anything but moan-
ness but mcanness kills love and Grip
| pies even natural affections.
Advice Is like snow; the softer 1t
| falls, the longer it dwells upon, aud tho
deeper it sinks INTO the mind. ..t
No man was ever cast down with the
in urtcs of fortune, unless he had be-
fore been deceived by her favors.
Groat things are not accomplished by
idle dreams, but by years of patient
study.
They that do nothing are In the read-
lest way to do that which Is worse than
nothing.
Kind words are better than gold, and
| the voice Of friend has saved many
| man from ruin.
BE happy If you can, but do not des-
pise those who are otherwise, for you
know not their troubles.
Some of the grandest things which
have been achieved were by those whom
| we thought our interiors
Narrow not your mind to your own
scltlshncss, but give it IL broad field for
your fellow men to work In.
Loves sweetest meanings are unspok-
cn. The full heart knows no rhetoric
ofwords; tresorts to signs and glances.
AL The blows we strike should be for or
purpose: every u'tll ufiVeH sIloulu w
| Il rivct In The machine Of the universe.
lie who who toys with time trihes
with frozen serpent, which Will af-
In n IL, 10 fitl md Snf inf a }nnt
| wound.
The chief art Of attaining is to learn
but little at time The widest excur-
sions Of the mind are made by short
| ilights, frequently repeated.
st. Bernard puts It we'll when he says,
"Humility Is, of all graces, the chiefest
wheu 1t doesn't know itself to be
grace at all.
Give u man such heart as tde Son OF
God describes Iii the beatitudes, and
whole universe of sorrow cannot rob
him Of his blcssedness.
think the first virtue Is to restrain
the tongue; he approaches nearest 10
the gods who knows how to be silent
even though he Is in the right.
Duty, though set about by thorns,
may be made staff, supporting even
while it torturcs. Cast 1t away, and,
like the prophets wand, 1t changes toa
snake.
Greatness stands upon precipice.
| and If prosperity, unbalanced by moral
| suasion, carries u man ever 80 little be-
yond his poise, 1t overbears and dashes
him to pieces.
Though the Word and the Spirit 20
the main work, yet suffering so unbolts
the door Of the heart. that both tho
Word and tho Spirit have easier entran-
COS.
Blessed bo the man who gives to the
poor, albeit only Il penny; dOubly
| blessed be lie who adds kind words to
his gift. Say not, because" thou cansC
not do everything, 81 will do nothing"
A man who can give up dreaming
smother down his heart, its love or woe,
md take TO the hard work of his hand;
who dehes fato aud, If he must die,
lies fighting TO the last--that man Is
'ifo's best hero. z*...H
Truth is always consistent With Itself,
and needs nothing to hell 1t Dub, 1t Is
always near ut hand, and sits;upon our
lips, and Is ready to drop ont before
we arc aware, whereas a lie is trouble
some, and needs great many more Of
tho same kind to make 1t good.
A great high-road OF, human welfare
lies along the old highway Of stead fast.
well doing, and they who are tho most
persistent and work in the truest splr-
1t will invariably be the most success
III :an"""ss treads on the heels Of every
right effort. @M Il
"A goou name IS best won by good
leeds. There is no sure way of being
we'll thought OF except by deserving
veil. "You have little world before
you," wrote Daniel Webster to q friend,
tfill it with good deeds and you will
ill.it with 70 ..r own glory"
The only part Of the conduct Of any
me, in which he is amenable to society, !,
that which concerns others. In tho
part which merely concerns himself,
lis independence Is Of right absolute.
Over himsolf, over his own body and
mind, che individual is sovereign.
This seems, to mo q great truth, says
Carlyle, in any exile or chaos whatso-
.yer, that sorrow was not given us for
,OrrOW's sake, bu. always and infallibiy