Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
FOOD FOR THOUGHT. :

to hurt the feelings Of another.
Making ones fortune In political life
Is gambling upon series of Ifs.
don't wonder that debt makes men
erin inals. 1t hardens the heart.
People must discuss something-lt In
the great preventative Of insanity.
When ones heart Is full, one Is not
apt to drop plummet line into IL.
Great souls hold firmly to heaven
and let the earth roll on beneath them.
Low as the grave is, only faith can
climb high enough TO see beyond it.
Never think worse OF another on ac-
count of his differing from you In poll
tics and religious subjects.
Never ridicule sacred things or what
others may esteem as such however ab-
surd they may appear TO you.
Bodily enjoyment depends upon good
health, and health depends npon tenn
perance.
The man who studies to be revenged
only manages 70 keep his own wounds
green.
No evil is lnsupportable but that
which Is accompanied with conscious
ness o. wrong.
When peoples feelings have got a
deadly wound they can't be cured by
favors.
knowledge will always predominant
over ignorance, as man governs the
other animals
There are few doors through which
liberality, Joined with good humor.
cannot find its way.
She that has no one to love or trust,
has but little TO hope. She wants the
radical principle OF happiness.
Have you known how to take reposeP
You have done more than he who has
taken cities and empires.
This is the present reward Of virtuous
conduct-that no unlucky consequence
can oblige us to regret It.
Integrity without knowledge Is weak
and useless, and knowledge without In
tegrity 10 dangerous and dreadful.
OF the uncertainties of our present
state, the most dreadful and alarming
is the uncertain continuance of reason.
That man who knows the world will
never be bashful, and that man who
knows himself will never be impudent.
Let there be in necessary things
unity, in everything charity, and then
there need not be in everything uni
formity.
Never resen; supposed injury until
you know the views and motives or the
author of it. And on no occasion re-
late it.
Always take the part of an absent
person who is censured In company, so
far as the truth and propriety will
allow.
A man should live with his superiorS
as he does with his fire-not too near
lest he burn; not too far off, lest he
freeze.
Ii is not enough to believe what you
maintain; you must maintain what
you believe, and maintain it because
you believe it.
There is In Christianity light enough
for those VINO sincerely wish to see IC,
and darkness enough 10 confound
those of an opposite disposition.
Only they who carry sincerity to the
highest point, in whom there remains
not single hairs breadth ofhyyocrisy,
can see the hidden springs of things.
1t requires great deal of boldness
and great deal of caution to make a
great fortune, and when you have got
Ii, 1t requires ten times as much VIC 20
keep it.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity
as well as under adverSity. A strong
mind has two highest tides-when the
moon is at the full and when there Is no
moon.
1t is much easier to meet with error
than to find truth. Error 1S on the
surface; truth is hidden in great depths,
and the way to seek it does not appear
to all the world.
A superior capacity for business, and
a more extensive knowledge, are steps
by which new man often mounts TO
favor and Outshines the rest of his con-
temporarics.
The mind is nourished at a cheap rate.
Neither cold nor heat nor age itself can
interrupt this exercise. Give, there
fore, all you can to possession which
ameliorates even in its old age.
Whatever comes out of despair can.
not bear the title of valor, which should
be lifted up to sucn height that, hold
ing all things under itself, it should be
able to maintain its greatness even In
the midst OF miseries.
The life of every man is as the we'll
spring of o stream, whose small Begin
nings are indeed plain to all, but
whose course and destination, as it
winds through the expanses of infinite
years, o2ly the Omniscient can discern.
Faith without works is like o bird
without wings; though she may hop
with her companions on earth, yet she
will never fly with them to heaven;
but when both are joined together, then
doth the soul mount up to eternal rest.
The harp holds in its wires the possi-
bilities of noblest chords; yet, If they
be not struck, they must hang dull and
useless. So the mind is vested with a
hundred powers, that must be smitten
by heavy hand to prove themselves
the offspring Of divinity.
When you speak evil of another you
must be prepared to have others speak
evil of you. There is an old Buddhist
proverb which says, sHe who indulges
in enmjty is like one who throws ashes
to windward, which comes back to the
same place and covers him all over"
They who can catch at happiness on
the bright surface of things imagine
they can secure it, such as it Is, with
less risk and more certainty; they who
dive for 1t in the waters of deeper feel
ing, If they succeed, bring up pearls
and diamonds, but If they sink, they
are gone forever.
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