Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-10-30
Food for Thought.

1t is better to suffer on tho side of right
than to reign on tho side of tho wrong.
Success, which is the result Of wrong doing,
brings ourso with it.
He that waits for repentance wits for
that which ca OF bo had ns long us it is
waited for Il is absurd for man to wait
for that which he himself has to do.
Do not allow thyself to be carried away
by anger. Angry words and scornfu looks
are sins. Reply to thine enemy gently.
Opposition to peaoc is sin.
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not
BY tho fcwness of writer's faults, but the
greatness of his beauties, and our noblcst
works are generally most rcplcto with both.
The ordinary employment of artificc is
the mark of pretty mind; and it almost
always happous that ho who uses it to cover
himself in ono place uncovcrs himself in
another.
Preserve your conscience always soft and
sensitive. If but one sin force itscf into
that tender part of the soul and dwell
thero, the road is paved for thousand in
iquitics.
Capricious, wanton, bold and brutal lust
is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel, aud,
like the blast of postlcntial winds, taints
tho sweet bloom of natures faircst forms.
He that is found reasonable in one thing
is concluded to be so in all; aud to think or
say otherwise is thought so unjust an afrront
and 80 scnseless ccnsurc that nobody ycn-
lures to do it.
There arc some truths in regard to which
we arc not warranted to ask the why. They
shine in their own light; and we feel that
we need no light; and VIC ask no light
whcrowith to see them.
Tho pain which conscience gives man
who has already done wrong is soon got
over. Conscience is coward, and those
faults it has not strength enough 10 prevent,
it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Unsclfish and noble acts are tho most
radiant cpochs in the biography of souls.
When wrought 10 earliest youth thcy lie in
tho memory of age like tho coral islands
green and sunny amidst tho melancholy
waste of ocean.
1t is easy in the world to live after the
worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude to live
after your own; but the great man is he,
who, in the midst of tho crowd, keeps
within perfect sweetness tho iudopen dcnoe
of solitude.
AS the reputation Of books is raised, not
by their freedom from defect, but the great
ness of their beauties, so should that of men
be priced, not from their exemption from
fault, but the size Of those virtues they are
possessed Of
Contentmcnt produces in some measure,
oil those effects which the alchcmist usually
ascribcs 10 what ho calls tho philosophers
stone, and if it docs not bring riches, it
docs the same thing by banishing :hc de-
sire for them.
One who is Injured ought not to return
the injury, as the multitude think; for on
no account can it be right to do injustice.
Therefore, it is pot right to return tho in
jury, or to do evil to any man, however he
may have suffered from him.
Where men arc the most sure and AFRO
giant they arc commonly the most mistaken,
and have given rcins to passions, without
that proper dclibcration and suspense.
which can alone secure them from the
grossest absurditics.
Pluck, not luok puts man ahead in this
world, and leaves lot of persons at the
foot Of tho ladder quarrcing over their
pedigree, trying to sponge a pass out of
somo sympathetic friend or steal up under
the shadow of sclf-mado man.
NU CUJoynCHlJ HOWCfCt llcOtSluCraDlC, lS
confined to tho present moment. A man
is the happier for life from having made
once on agreeable tour, or lived for any
length of timo with pleasant rcop,s, or en- :
ioycd any considerable interval Of innocent
pleasure.
Not alone to know, but to aot according
to thy knowledge, is thy destination, pro-
claims tho voice of my inmost soul. Not
for indolcnt contemplation and study of
thysclf, nor for broodiug over emotions or
pity-no, for action was given thee; thy
actions, and thy actions alone, determine
thy worth.
1t is easy to pick holes in other peoples
work, but it is far moro profitable to DO
better work yourself. Is there fool in
the world who cannot critioisc? Those who |
can themselves do good service aro but as
ono to thousand compared to those who
can SEQ faults in tho labor Of others.
Kind words cost nothing; they are castor
to use thun any other. Ihey won't blistcr
the tongue nor aggravatc tho children or
Pcrvants. People who talk loud and threat
op, use weapons Of weakness. Kindness
favored with love, is tho true principo for
tho homo circle or, indeed, elsewhere.
1t has been argued that the election of
intomforato men to high, judicial or cxeou--
two statious is forbidden in the scriptures
ns 10 the following verse: "lt is pot--it is