West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-09-06
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


OF wrong doing, brings a curse with it.
He that waits for repentance waits
Tor that which can not be had rs long
as 1t Is waited for. IL Is absurd for a
man To walt for that which he himself
has To do.
DO not allow thyself TO be carried
away by anger. Angry words and
scorutul looks are sins. Reply To thine
enemy with gentleness. Opposition To-
peace Is a sin.
The way to acquire lasting esteem Is
NOT by the fewuess of writer's faults.
but the greatness of his beauties, and
our noblest works are generally most
repleto with both.
The ordinary employment of artifico
is the mark of "a pretty mind and IL nl-
most always happens that he who uses
II To cover himself In one place uncovers
himself In another.
Preserve your conscience always soft
and sensitive. Ii but one sin force it.
sell into that tender part of tho soul and
dwell there, the road is paved for "A
thousand iniquities.
tapricious, wanton, bold and brutal
lust is meanly selfish; when resisted.
cruel; and, like the blast of pestIlentiai
winds, taints the sweet bloom OF ma
ture's faircs, forms.
lie that Is found reasonable I'm one
thing is concluded To be so i'm all; and
TO think or say otherwise is thought SO
unjust an oflrout aud so sonsoless a
censure that nobody ventures To do IL.
There are some truths I'm regard TO
which We are not warranted To- ask the
why. They shine In their own light;
aud we feel that we need no liKht: an
we ask no light whcrewith to see them
The pain which conscience gives "a
man who has already done wrong Is
soon got over. Conscience is a coward,
and those faults it has not strength
enough To prevent, it seldom has ius-
ticc enough to accuse.
Unseltish aud noble acts are tho most
radicnt cpochs In the biography of
souls. When wrought In earliest youth
they lie IN the memory of age like the
coral Islands green and sunny amidst
the melancholy waste of ocean
II Is easy In the world To live after
the worlds opinion; 1t is easy i'm soli-
tude To live after your own; but the
great man is he. who, In the midst of
the crowd, keeps within perfect sweet.
ness the independence of solitude.
As the reputation OF books I'm raised
not by their freedom from defect, but
the greatness of their beauties so should
that OF men be priced, not from thor
exemption from fault, but the size of
those virtues they arc possessed Of
Coutentmont produces, in some meas
ure, all those effects which tho aIchem-
ist usually ascribes to what he calls the
philosophers stone, and IL it does not
bring riches, 1t does tho same thing by
banishing the desire for them.
One who is injured ought not to re-
turn the Injury, "a the multitude think;
for ON no account can 1t be right To do
Injustice. Therefore, 10 is not right to
return an Injury, or to do evil To any
man, however we may have suffered
from him.
Where men are the most sure and ar
rOgant they are commonly the most
mistaken, and have there given reins
TO passions, without that proper delib-
Grafton and suspense, which can alone
secure them from the grossest absurdi-
ties.
Pluck, not luck, put man ahead In
this world, and leaves n lot Of persons
at the foot OF the ladder quarrelling over
their pedigrees, trying To sponge pass
out Of srme sympathetic friend, or steal
up under the shadow of some self-made
man.
No enjoyment, however incOnsidera-
Bile, Is confined TO the present moment.
A man Is the happier for life from haV-
ing made once an agreeable tour, or
lived for any length Of time with pleas
ant people, or enjoyed any considerable
Interval Of innocent pleasure.
Not alone TO know, but TO act accor-
ding to thy knowledge, is thy destina-
tiOn, proclaIms the voice Of my inmost
soul. Not for indolent contemplation
anu study OF tbyself, nor for brooding
over emotions Of pity-nO, for action
was given thee; thy actions, add thy
actions alone, determine thy worth.
IL is easy 10 pick holes I'm other peo-
plc's work, but 10 Is tar more profitable
% 10 bett0r work Yourself is there n
fool in the world who cannot criticisel
Those whc can emselyes do good SER
vice are but as one TO a thousand com
pared TO those who can see faults in the
labor Of others.
Kind words cost nothing; they are
easier 20 use than any other. They
won't bli-ter the tOngue nor aggreVatc
the children or servants. People who
ttlk loud aud threaten, use weapons OF
weaaness. Kindness, favored with
love, is the true principle for the home
circle or, indeed, elsewhere.
~ has been argued that the election
~ NNi'INI lI'A AN' llifit W WAA ls IWfllIlhl OF
executive stations is forbidden ia the
scriptures as iu the following verse:
"lt b. MOTT Is not for kings 10 drink
wine, nor princes strong drink, lest
they forget the law ana preverL the
eau O. Of the poor and needy.
They who remember the benefits be-
slowed by parents are 600 grateful 90
.cmcmbcr their faults. They are hap-
Dy who can return 90 father and moth
rr the care they receive from them in
infancy, still happier they are who can
return their smiles and carcssess, and
tecl for them the same love they have
received. Ola age sometimes becomes
second childhood; why should not tilial
piety become parental iOye.
Praying and practjcing Christs's com
mandments will keep out SHINING;
Iothiug else will DO d., Positive steps
vil -ave you. When the packet ship
stephen Within v" struck. 40 mid
night, on an Irish clld. and clunQ, for
few moments, 90 The cIH, all the pas
4cugcr5 who lrapod instantly upon the
rock were saved. The positive step
landed them ON the rock. Those who
fingered were swept oG by the return
ing wa"c, and cngulled forever Your
| dr-t duty BIS to fee out Of the sinking
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