West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-06-07
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

books as by companions.
The great misfortune of all Is not to
be able To bear misfortune.
Age that lessons the enjoyment of
life, Increases our desire of living.
Absence destroys triiling ntimacies
but IL tnvigorates strong ones.
To the blessed eternity itself there
Is no other handle than this instant.
Let us search ourselves I'm the tlrst
place, and afterwards the world.
Ii evil be said of thee, aud lt. is true.
correct IL; IL 1t be u lie. laugh at 1t.
Employment Is Natures physician.
and Is essential to human happiness.
No one will dare maintain that IL Is
better To do injustice than To bear It,
Flattery sits I'm the parlor when plain
dealing Is kicked out of doo's.
show may be purchased. but happi-
ness Is always "a homemade article.
IL Is right to be contented with what
we have, never with what we are.
The silence of n person who loves to
praise Is ccnsure sufficiently severe.
Those beings only are tit Tor solitude
who like nobody, and are likeI by mo-
body.
Be severe To yourselves and mdul-
gent To others; you thus avoid all re
sentiment.
Good thoughts, like rose-lcaves, give
out sweet perfume IL laid up la the
jar of memory.
II you propose To serve God at all
nave the manliness To begin Ills service
now
Our dissatisfaction with any other
solution, Is the blazing evidence of our
Immortality.
strength ofmind depends upon sobri-
ely, for this keeps reason unclouded by
passion.
No indulgence of passion destroys
the spiritual nature so much as respect
able seltshnoss.
Human life defined by line Is as
uncomfortable ms would be- the human
figure defined by wire.
Nothing is more amiable than true
modesty, and nothingis more contemp-
tiblc than the false. The one guards
virtue, the other Detrays 1t.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike
those of the body, they are Increased
by repetition, approved by reflection
ana strengthened by enjoyment.
The object of all ambition should be
10 he happy at home, II we are not
happy there, we cannot be happy else
where.
ignorance, when it is voluntary. Ia
criminal, and he may properly be charg-
ed with evil who refused to learn how
he might prevent It..
All skill ought TO be exerted for uni
versal good every man has owed much
to others and ought to repay the kind
ness that he has received.
IL is from our hearts, and not from
an outward source, that we draw the
line which covers the web of our exis-
tence.
Keep the head cool by temperance In
all things, and the feet warm by actual
exercise In the discharge of important
lutes-deeds of kindness.
What commonly hinders us from
showing the reecsses of our heart to
our friends Is not the distrust we have
OF them, but that we have of ourselves.
Men trust rather to their eyes than
TO their ears; the effect Of preCepts IL
therefore slow and tedious, whilst that
of examples is summary and eiIectual
No man is ever good for anything un-
I'll he has found two things-frst, some
thing TO love, and second. something to
reverence.
The Infinite has sowed his name i'm
the heavens In burning stars, but la
the earth lie has sOwn His name i'm ten
der flowers,
Genius loves toll, impediment and
poverty; for from these IL gains its
strength, throws Off the shadows, and
lifts It's proud head to immortality.
Gentleness which belongs to virtue
Is to be carefully distinguished from
the mean spirit OF towards and the
fawning assent of sycophants.
Pride Is seldom delicate it will please
itself with very mean advantages and
envy feels not its own happiness; but
when IL may be compared with the
misery Of others. an
Tears are the gift which love bestows
upon the memory of the absent and
they VIII avail TO keep the heart from
5uliOCatiOn.
How many useful hints are obtained
by chance, and how often the mind,
hurried by her own ardOr, to distant
views, neglects the truths that lie open
before her.
If you were as willing TO be az pleas
ant, and as anxious TO please in your
own house, rs you are la the company
Of your neighbors, you would have the
happicst home in the world.
When the flowers are full Of heaven
descended dews they always hang their
heads but men hold theirs the higher
the more Of the world they receive,
getting prouder as they get full.
'1'is much easier TO meet with error
than to iud truth; error Is on the sur
face, truth Is hidden in great depths;
and the way to seek does not appear TO
all the world.
Times of general calamity and con
fusion have ever been productive Of the
greatest minds. The purest ore comes
from, the hottest furnace; the brightest
flash from the darkest cloud.
If we would have powerful minds, we
must think; If we would have faithful
hearts, we must love; II we would
have strong muscles, we must labor.
These include all that Is valuable In life.
Never has one person forgotten his
pure, rIght-educating mother. On the
blue mountains Of our dim childhood,
toward which we ever turn and look,
stand the mothers who marked ont 70
as from thence our life.
10 Is q great blessing, not often en-
joycd, for people TO have men equal
to every crisis in their history SUCH as
tttnp children of Tagaohar thar had nm