Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-09-11
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

To work out our own cOntentment,
we should labor not so much to increase
our substance, as TO. moderate our de-
sires.
Those who can themselves do good
service are but as one TO % thousand
compared with those who can see faults
In the labors of others.
It Is better TO wear out than to rust
out. We must not only strike the iron
while 1t is hot, buC strike until it IL
made hot.
Happy is he who has learned to do
the PLAIN duty of the moment quickly
and cheerfu1ly, wherever and whatever
it may be.
The poorest of the poor have been as
brave as The wealthy; the learned have
died gloriously, but the unlearned have
almost stolen the palm.
A mind trained TO self-denial meets
trials with an amount of reserved moral
force quite inexplicable TO those less
habltuated TO self-control.
A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been i'm the wrong; which
Is but saying, in other words, that he Ia
wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Good books effected in LoyoIa what
the fear OF approaching death, heaV-
enly apparition, mirac Ilous restora-
tion 10 health had failed 10 do,
Error is blind, but reason is argus
eyed; but the mass of mankind will
| seek the first for counsel and wisdom
rather than the latter.
Flattery ia safe coin which our own
vanity has made current, and will never
be out OF credit as long as there are
knaves TO offer it and fools TO receive It,.
How strange that the stratas of love
and hate lie so close together that ir
takes but little To bring the latter up
permOst, when under The pressure of
unkindness or injustice.
Tears do not dwell long ON the cheeks
of youth. Rain drops easily from the
bud, rests on the maturer flower, and
breaks down that which has lived its
day.
Our customs and habits are like the
ruts in roads. The wheels OF life settle
into them, and we jog along through
the mire, because iC is too much trouble
to get out of them.
There are no hands upon the clock
OF eternity; there is EO shadow upon
its dial. The very hours of Heaven
will be measured by the sunshine-not
by the shadow.
Beauty, like the towering blossoms
soon fades; but the divine excellence of
the mind, like the medical virtues of
the plant remains in 1t when all those
charms are withered.
If we would have powerful minds we
must think; if we would have faithful
hearts, we must love; If we would have
strong muscles, we must labor. These
include all that is valuable i'm life.
When you doubt between words, use
the plainest, the commonest, the most
idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you
would rouge, love simple ones as you
would native roses On your cheek.
sour gOdliness -chills and represses
every bud of hope about US; sunny
soul kindles into glow of life and
freshens the waole circle in which it
moves.
A mans character is like his shadow
which sometimes follows, and some
times precedes him, and which Ia occa-
sionally longer and occasionally shorter
tnan he is.
knowledge will not be acquired with
out pains and application. It is troub-
lesOme and deep digging for pure water;
but when once you come To the springs
they rise up and meet you.
Be not diverted from your duty by
any idle reflections the silly world may
make upon you, tor their censures are
not in your power, and they conse-
quently should not be any part of your
concern.
A good deed is never lost; he who
sows courtesy meets friendship; and he
who plants kindness gathers love plea
ure bestowed upon grateful mind was
never sterile but generally begets re-
ward.
But little do men perceive what solI-
tude is, and how far it extends. For
crowd is no company; mems faces are
but like pictures in gallery, and talk
but a tlnkling cymbal where there is no
love.
Truly has it been said. emphatically
in these days ought TO be repeated; a
loving heart is the beginning of all
knowledge This it is that opens the
whole mind, quickens every faculty of
the intellect TO do its fit work.
Avert your gaze from the crosses of
the future, you see them without the
softenlng. sustaining grace which ac-
companies them when they reach you.
Let all your efforts tend TO bearing the
cross OF the present moment.
Don't you wish sometimes that the
world would stop talking and let you
Uhinkp And have you never been ex-
asperated 10 hear some one utter the
very thought which you had cherished
AS all your own, aud which you were
just going TO utter?
Admonish a friend 1t may be that he
hath not done 1t, that he do it no more.
Admonish thy friend it may be he hath
not said it, but If he have, that he
speak it no more. Admonish friend;
for many times it is a slander, and be-
lleve not every tale.
The art of conversation consists in
the exercise of two fine qualities. You
must originate and you must sympa-
thize. You must possess, at the same
time, the habils of communicating and
listening. The union is rare, but ire
slstiDle.
Strive to gain new ideas not thought
of by others, tor they are the mothers
of progress. If We always retain our
ola thoughts and cherish them as the
only truths, we stop in the dark and
will soon rapidly digress In wisdom and
power.
AS well might fog, and cloud, and
vapor hope TO cling TO the sun-illumin-