The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Is no other handle than this instant.
Let us search ourselves in the first
place, and afterwards the world.
If evil be said Of thee, and IT. is true.
correct 1t; If 1t be lie, laugh at IT..
Employment is Natures physician.
and Is essential to human t,yanLiness.
No one will dare maintain that Il Is
better to do injustice than to bear 1t.
Flattery, sits In the parlor when plain
dealing Is kicked out Of doo.s.
Show may be purchased, but happi-
ness Is always u homemade article.
1t Is right to be contented with what
we have, meyer with what we are.
The silence OF a person who loves to
praise Is a censurc sufficiently severe.
Those beings only are fit tor solitude
who like nobody, and are likeI by no
body.
Bc severe to yourselves and indul-
gent TO others; you thus avoid all re-
sentiment.
Good thoughts, like rose-lcaves, give
out sweet perfume If laid up in the
jar OF memory.
III you propose to serve God at all,
have the inanlincss to begin His service
now. .....
Our dissatisfaction with any other
solution, Is the blazing evidence of our
immortality.
Strength ofmind depends upon sobri-
ETY., FOR this keeps reason uncloudcd by
passion.
No indulgence Of passion destroys
Cnc spiritual nature so much rs respect
able sclilshness.
Human life defined by q line Is as
uncomfortable as would be the human
figure defined by wire.
Nothing Is more amiable than true
modesty, and nothing Is 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
and strengthened by enjoyment.
The object of all ambition should be
to be happy at home, 1t we are not
happy there, we cannot be happy else
where.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary. is
criminal, and he may properly be charg-
Ell with OWL who refused to learn how
he might prevent It.
All skill ought to be exerted for uni
to others and ought to repay the kind
ness that he has received.
1t is from our hearts, and not from
an outward source, that we draw the
llnc which covers the web Of our exis-
tence.
Keep tho head cool by temperance IN
all things, and the feet warm by actual
exercise In the discharge Of important
duties-deeds Of kindness.
What oNmmon1u 1knIo,. -, c,,o,>>
showing the reccsses of our heart to
our friends Is not the distrusS we have
of them, but that we have Of ourselves.
Men trust rather to their eyes than
to their ears; the effect of precepts is
therefore slow and tedious, whilst that
OF examples is summary and effectual.
No man Is ever good for anything un-
til he has found two things-arst, some
thing to love, and second, something to
reverence.
Tho Infinite has sowcd his name in
the heavens In burning stars, but in
the earth He has sOWn His name in ten
der flowers, an
Genius loves toll, impodiment and
poverty; for from these 1t gains Its
strength, throws OFF tho shadows, and
lifts Its proud head to immortality.
Gentleness which belongs to virtue
is to be carefully distinguished from
the mean spirit Of towards and the
tawning assent of sycophants.
Pride Is seldom delicate it will please
Itself with very mean advantages; and
envy feels not its own happiness; but
when 1t may be compared with the
misery Of others.
Tears are the gift which love bestows
upon the memory of tho absent and
they will avail to keep the heart from
suifocation.
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 as pleas
ant, and as anxious to please In your
own house, as you are In the company
of your neighbors, you would have the
happlcst homo In the world. .aa&
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.
"Tis much easier to meet with error
than to find 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. 30,
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 !. ,stt 3
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 I'M life.
Never has one person forgotten his
pure, rIght-ednoating mother. On the
blue mountains Of our dim childhood,
toward which we eyer turn and look,
stand the mothers W no marked out to
I Eus from thence our life.
1T is a great blessing, not often en-.
joyed, for a people TO haye men equal
to every, crisis In their history, such as,
"the children OF Issachar that, had un-
derstandlng Of the tlmes TO- know What
fsrael ought TO do. n 4 a s4
Iftyou have talents, industry Inn
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