West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-11-01
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Ignorance has uo light; error follows
false one.
fine coat may cover a fool, but
never conceals one.
There Is no grief lIks the grief whioL
does not speak.
lie who blackens others docs not
whiten himself.
Genius is sometimes arrogant; know
| ledge Is always diffident.
we are never 30 proud snd so hum
ole AS when we are praised.
lie only enjoys his passion who oaa
make no use of his reason.
The pleasure OF doing good Is the on
~ pleasure that never wears ont.
Surely half the world must be blind:
they can sec nothing unless It gliiters.
III Ounce IL short OF some faults, hs
only did not know how to acquire
\ them.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
sandal tree perfumes the axe that
strikes IL.
TO be In love Is nothing else but To
love more what we loved before we
were I'm love.
Heavens gates are wide enough to
ADMIT every sinner In the universe who
is penitcnt.
! Calumny and detraction are but
sparks, which, II you do not blow them,
VIII go out of themselves.
The wealthy mlser lives as n poor
man here; but ne must give account
IN Ilch man In the day of judgment.
How contagious is the laugh of some
people how Jarring that of others, like
play'ng on worn out plane.
What ia atyI.,l
nothing but the fear OF showing too
little merit.
"A good constitution In like a money
boX-its full value In never known tiIl
IL Is broken.
Good taste Is the modesty of the mind:
that IL why it cannot be either Initiated
or acquired.
In general, there Is 40 one with whom
HE drags so odisagrecably as with him
VINO trios to make 1t shorter.
You cannot dream yourself into 4.
character; you must hammer and
forge yourself one.
The heart that is soonest awake 10
The flowers Is always the first To- ba
touched by the thorns.
The miles to- Heaven nrc few and
snort and tho glorious end will como
soon.
III the shoe of monarch could do as
much as the monarch himself, the court
- ''.'' . - = ---.,I,.,ss<
and his shoe.
without belief i'm personal immor-
tailty religion surely Is like au arch
resting on one pillar, like II bridge end
ing In an abyss.
The sweat OF ones brow Is no longer
curse when one works for God it
IA aAss A..
actually blessing.
Charity toward the weaknesses OF
human nature is IA virtue which we de-
mand in others. but which we flnd very
hard To practice ourselves.
Memory and nope are set like stars
above the soul-tbe one shining dimly
through the twilight of the past, the
other lighting the archway Of tho fu-
ture.
We can easily manage II we will only
tax each day, the burden appointed
FOR 1t. But the load will be too heavy
Tor us II we add To Its weight the bur-
den OF tomorrow before we are called
TO bear it.
lie that will put time and eternity
before him, and who will dare to look
stcadfastly on both of them, will find
that the moro often he contemplates
them the former will grow greater and
the latter less.
young officer thought to puzzle an
older one by asking him when two
men OF equal age anu rank met, which
should be the first TO bow. The elder
calmly replied, The more polite Of
the two"
Want Of goods is easily repaired po-
Verty OF soul Is irreparable. Socrates,
seeing II great quantity Of riches, Jewels
ana furniture of great value carried in
pOmp through ihe city: "How many
things," SAID he, "do not desire ?"
Men may AS well expect TO grow
stronger by always sitting. as wiser by
always reading. Too much overchAr-
ges nature, and turns more into disease
than nOurlshment. IL Is thought
which Is mental digestion, which makes
books seryiceable, and gives health Dna
yigOr TO the mind
God led the lsraclites TO and fro. for
ward and back ward, as I'm "A maze or
labyrinth; and yet they were all the
while under tie direction Of the pillar
OF cloud. lie led them about, and VET
he led them by right way. His way
in bringing his people home Is always
the best, though IL may not DO the near
est.
IhOu mast double nature. Choose
! between the worse and the better thar
Is within thee. Thou hast lt In thy
power 70 become the slave Of passion.
tie slave OF luxury, the slave Of sen-
! sual pleasure, the slave Of corruption.
Thou hast 10 la thy power to become
the free master Of thyself, to become
the everlasting beEefaetOr Of thy coun-
| try, and the unfsiling champion Of thy
God.
Habit IL the deepest law OF our nature.
10 rs our greatest strength and our
/ greatest weakness. II can seize all pre-
sent advantages and blessings apprO-
| pirate every particle ofspiritual mamma
that comes from heaven, causing the
/ soul TO grow In grace and In commun-
ion aud In the knowledge OF the Lord
/ or II can put them away into the fu
I tufe, and let the soul get on ~ II may
Ia It's low and starved condition.
As the snow gathers together, so our
habits are formed; no single nako that
Is added 20 the pile produces a sensible
/ change; no single action creates, how
/ ever 10 may exhibit mans character;
I but Us the tempest hurls the avalanche
/ down the mountain, OYerw whclming the
/ inhabitant aud his habitation, so paf-
I sion acting upon the elements of mis-
ola anN -. IA.