The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-17
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

happy the true empire of beauty.
Those eyes alone are beautiful which
are luminous and not sparkling.
! The perfectly contented man Is also
perfectly useless.
He Is happy who has conquered
laziness once and forever. t..-,
The truest end Of life Is to know
! the life that never ends.
Our dead are never dead to us until
we have forgotten them.
lie who spends all he gets Is on tho
high road to bcggary. t#.@4
| The ideal SAINT of the young moralist
cut from sappy timber. a..,.-
Th- = are never alone who are accom-
panied with noble thoughts.
An angry man opens his mouth and
shuts his eyes.
Everybody complains IF bad memoi
but nobody of bad Judgment.
The man who minds his own busine,
has good steady employment.
Cod furnishes us the fine wheat; but
we ourselves must knead it into bread.
lie needs no ether rosary whose
thread OF life Is strung with beads OF
love and thought.
The most terrific storm of real woe IN
mans heart rarely filings its froth
andf' mas high as his lips. .r
The praise and blame which hang on
the lowest boughs, and may be easily
pluckcd, are generally worthless.
Never pass between two persons
who are talking together without an
apology. ... .s...a5
Never lend an article you havo bor-
rowed unless you have permission to 40
verexhlbit any anger, impatience,
or cNcitement when an accident hap
pens. ... .....,.. l....r
Anything we can love and reverence
becomes, rs 1t were, the Sunday for the
mind.
Politcness is money, which enrlches
not him who receives it, but who dis
pcnscs 1t. ,... 'al
y man that astonishes ut first, soon
makes people impatient II he does not
continue to do 1t. .# .a r.5fr.....,'
Reproaches, unsupported by evidence
Affect only the character Of him who
uttcrs them.
Philosophy, like medicine, has album
dance Of drugs-tew good remedies,
aud scarcely any specifics. Z
In general, there is no one with
whom life drags so disagrceably as with
him who tries to make It shorter,
Censure Is most cffectual when mix
ed with praise, SO, when a fault Is dis
covered, 1t Is well to look up virtue to
go in company. "r : 1 &
Single-minded men always succeed.
The wedge, says Carlyle, will rend
rocks, but Its edge must be sharp and
single; If 1t be double, the wedge Is
biIiSpI in DInpna nl wi II ronfJ ,>o+l,T,,,,
He who makes II man laugh twice
where he would only laugh once Is Il
greater DencfactOr than he who makes
two blades of grass grow whore there
was but one before.
The hour is whole, and 80 is the dol
lar; but take Il minute from tho one, or
penny from the other, and, for want
OF Its smallest part, the whole ceases to
be. ".H
The habit Of resolving without act
Ing is'wOrse than not resolving at all,
inasmuch as 1t gradually sunders che
natural connection between thought
and deed. ff.
They are like tho linch-pin to the
wheel, OIL which depends the safety of
the vehicle; they are like the rudder to
tho vast ship which it guides like the
slender nerves to the bulky muscles.
1t is with nations as with individuals.
Those who know the least Of others
think the highest OF themselves, for the
whole family Of pride and ignorance
are inccstnous and eventually beget
each other, 'i'"' '" '".'9"
We can easily manage If we will only
take, each day, the burden appointed
for 1t. But the load will be too heavy
for us If we add to Its weight the bur
den OF tomorrow before we are called
to bear 1t, 's'l -" t'*
Witty sayings are as easily y lost rs the
pearls slipping OF broken string;
but word of kindness Is seldom spok-
on In vain. 1t Is seed which, even
when dropped by chance, springs up as
a Hover. ,'e'""' t"i" '''3
1t is never we'll to put ungenerous
constructions when others equally
plausible and more honorable are ready.
Let ns ra'her follow the advice Of Sir
Arthur Helps, and "employ our imag-
nations In tho service OF charlty."'
This cannot DO otherwise, tor great
things are only a series Of little ones,
so closely compacted together that they
take the appearance of, and, indeed, be-
come a whole, just as the hour is made
up of minutes, and the dollar of cents.
The wise physlolsn ia on frlondly
terms with death. 1t is as muohPa
physiological necessity as life,s and
though, like the visitor of an officer of
justice, its entrance must not be allow
ed without proper warrant, yet the
warrant is sure TO be issued at lasts
The greatest loss Of time is delay aid
expectation which depends upon the
future. We let go the present which
we have In our power, and look forward
to that which depends upon ohanca,
and SO relinquisha certainty for an un-
certainty. ,;,4y IA It.is ss st}t
Words are nothing to paint a. moth
er's love, a mother's consolation. A
baby's smile contains the .dlvlnost es-
sence of all earthly solacement; a
child's love soothes WI MISUNDERSTANDING;
1t demands so. mubh that In blessing 1t
one Is blessed In it uaawares, ..as
Large and powerful efforts are often
needed, but they arc only required oc-
casiOnally; but the most powerful
atrr OO1ap will foil tho 3 4, - -,