West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-10-18
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

llir is good.
The torment of envy is like a grain of
sand In the eye.
Those who hope for no other life are
dead even for this
DO not suffer life To stagnatc; Il will
grow muddy for want OF motion.
To the blessed ctcrnity itself there Ia
no other handle than this instant.
What the key is to the watch, tho
prayer is To our graces.
The heart has its reasons, which ReA-
son does not apprehend.
Ii Is not life tO live for ones SELF
alone. Let us help one another.
Many complain OF their memory. but
none of their judgment.
a man seldom improves who has no
better model than himself.
Society could not long subsist II men
wcrc notthc dupes of one another.
Consider no work completed that you
might hava performed more creditably
lie Is not so good as he should be who
does not strive To be better than he Is.
There Is not a property in nature but
"A mind Is born To seek and find IL out.
Let us not imagine evils we do not
feel, nor injurc llto by misropresenta-
tions.
The life OF a solitary man will GER
tainly he miserable, but not certainly
dovout.
No evil Is msupportablo but that
which Is accompanied with conscious
ness of wrong.
No Indulgence of passion DESTROYS
the spiritual nature 30 much as respect
able soltishness.
There are few doors through which
liborality, Joined with good humor,
cannot find It's way.
The mind hath reason TO remem-
Der that passions ought to be her vas
sails not her masters.
This Is the present reward of virtu-
Gus conduct-that no mlucky conse-
qucnce can obligc us TO regret it.
All virtue lies in the power of deny
ing our own desires when reason does
not authorize or sanction them.
Even gcntlencss can be acquired af-
Ter patient exercise OF your better ma
turo.
Clutch virtue as a priceless Jewel.
ana handle vice rs you would "A rcd-hot
coal.
How can we expect harvest of
thought who have not had IA seod-time
of character2
Mankind worship success, but think
roo littlc of TIC means by which IL is at
tanned.
Man judges OF our motives by our ac-
tlons. God judges OF our actions by
our motives.
The mlndof youth cannot remain emp
| ty; IL you do notputlInto lt that which IL
good, 1t will gather elsewhere that
which is evil.
II we could read the secret history OF
our enemies, we should llnd In each
mans life sorrow and suffering enough
To disarm all hostility.
Young men often fail to get on I'm
this world because they neglect small
opportunities. Not being faithful In
llttle things, they are not promoted TO
the charge of greater things.
! To put up with the world Is better than
10 control It, This is the very acme of
virtue. Religion leads us to IL In day;
! philosophy only conducts TO it by "A
ienBthened life, misery, or death.
When one latterlngly praises me.
always cOmmends me, never rebukes
me, assists my faults, and forglVes me
before have repented-hc Is my enc
my.
! Men must trust rather to their eyes
than 10 their ears; the effect of precept
| is, therefore, slow aud tedious, whilSt
that Of example Is summary and efIec-
tual.
II Is not the strange sights that Wa
shall see in heaven that will so much
delight us; not the glitter and the
glory; not the diamond ana topaz no,
1t Is God He Is all and in all.
1t is great disgrace to religion to
Imagine that 1t Is an enemy 10 mirth
aud chcerfulLess, and severe OK
/ tractor Of pcnsiYe looks and solemn
/ faces.
Could we but prevail with the great
/ est dcbauChers among us 10 change
their lives, we should find IL no very
hard master to change their judgments.
IL matters TO us I'm life not 80 much
/ what part we play, as 1t does 70 play
our part well. In drama 10 is not so
much q question who played the king
| or the peasant, ~ who played the part
\ best.
| Life is q stream which continually
| flows on, but never returns. We die
| daily; for each day takes away some
| portion Of life. The days which are
past are gone forever; the present mo-
| mcnt only - our own.
/ No man can succeed I'm all his under
/ takinRs, and IL would not be well for
him 70 do 80 Things easily acquired
/ go easily. IL Is by the struggle IL costs
% obtain that we learn TO rightly esti-
mate the value.
The love Of glory, the fear Of shame.
I the design Of making fortune, the de.
sire Of rendering life easy aud agreea-
+ Bile, and the humOr Of pulling down
other people, are often the causes Of
| that yalor sO celebrated among men.
| The soul may be compared TO a field
Of battle, where the armies are ready
at every moment to encounter. Not "A
single vice but has = more powerful Op-
/ poncnt, and not one virtue but may 30
Overborne by combination OF vices.
Never yet did there exist full faith
In the Divine Word which did not ex-
/ pand the intellect while 10 purified the
| hear which did not multiply the aims
aud objects Of the understanding while
4 DO fixed aud simplihed those OF the de-
I sircs and feelings.
People arc apt to think that the hard
/ times which they experience are the
hardest times that have ever been and
go they arc for them But one only
I moods IN road tho Ifgfcry Of tho ,,.,~lI