West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-05-03
NO. 81.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

nigh road to boggary.
The ideal SAINT of the young moralist
$ cut from sappy timber.
They are never alone who are accom-
panied with noble thoughts.
An angry man opens his mouth and
shuts his eyes.
Everybody complains of bad memory
but nobody of bad Judgment.
The man who minds his own busines
mas good steady employment.
God furnishes us the fine wheat; but
we ourselves must kncad IL into bread.
lie needs no s.her rosary whose
thread Of life Is strung with beads OF
love and thought.
The most terrible storm of real woo iu
mans heart rarely fings It's froth
andb u as high as his lips.
The praise and blame which hang on
the lowest boughs, and may be easily
pluckcd, are generally worthless.
Never pass between two persons
who are talking together without all
apology.
Never lend an article YOU have Dor-
rowed unless you have permission TO do
so.
NevereNhlbit any anger, impatience,
or excitement when an accident hap
pens.
Anything we can love and reverence
becomes, as IL were, the Sunday for the
mind.
Politencss Is money, which enriches
not him who receives IL, but who dis
penscs IL.
man that astonishes at first, soon
makes people impatient II he does not
continue To do it.
Rcproachcs, unsupported by evidence
Affect only the character OF him who
uttcrs them.
Philosophy, like medicine, has abun-
dance OF drugs-iew good remedies,
and scarcely any specifics
In general, there Is no one with
whom life drags so disagrecably Us with
MN who tries To make 10 shor'er.
Censure Is most eiiectual when mix
ed with praise, so, when fault Ia dis
covered, IL is well To look up "a virtue To
20 In company.
Sngle-minded men always succeed.
The wedge, says Carlyle, will rend
rocks. but It's edge must be sharp and
single; II 10 be double, the wedge In
bruised In pieces and will rend nothing.
lie who makes "A man laugh twice
where lac would only laugh once is "A
greater bcnefactor than he who makes
TWO blades OF grass grow where there
was but one before.
The hour is whole, and so is the dol
lar; but take "A minute from the one. or
penny from the other, and for want
of its smallest part, the whole ceases To
be.
The habit of resolving without act
ing Is worse than not resolving ut all,
inasmuch rs 1t gradually sunders the
natural connection between thought
and deed.
They are like the linch-pin to the
wheel, on which depends the safety of
the vehicle; they are like the rudder To
the vast ship which IL guides; like the
slender nerves to the bulky muscles.
/ II is with nations IA with individuals.
Those who know the least OF others
think the highest OF themselves, for the
whole family Of pride and ignorance
are incestuOus and eventually beget
each other,
We can easily manage If we will only
take, each day, the burden appointed
| for 10. But the load will be too heavy
/ for US II we add to its weight the bur
Gen OF tomorrow before we arc called
/ to bear it,
Witty sayings are as easily lost as the
pearls slipping oil broken string
. but word Of kindness is seldom spOk-
Ell In vain. IL IL u seed which, even
when dropped by chance, springs mp a.
a flower.
/ IL Is never well to put ungenerous
constructions when others equally
plausible and more honorable are ready.
Let US IA her follow the advice OF Sir
Arthur Helps, and "employ our imag-
nations in the service OF charity"
This cannot be otherwise. tor great
things are only series Of little ones
80 closely cOmpacted together that they
take the appearance Of, aud, indeed, be-
come u whole, just ~ the hour Is made
up Of minutes, and the dollar Of cents
The wise physiclon Is on friendly
terms with death. 1t IA as much "A
physiological necessity as life, and
though like the visitor OF an officer Of
Justice, its entrance must not be allow
cd without q proper warrant, yet the
warrant is sure 10 be ISSUED at last.
The greatest loss Of time IL delay and
expectation which depends upon the
iutWe. We let go the present which
we have in our power, and look forward
TO that which depends upon chance,
and -O rcliuquish % certainty for an un-
certainty
Words are nothing 30 paint moth
cr's love, a mothers consolation. a
baby smile contains the divincst es-
scuce OF all earthly solacement; Is
child love sOOthcs withOutwcakcntug
10 demands so mubh that in blessing Il
one Is blessed in IL uuawares.
Large and powerful EFFORTS arc often
needed, but they are only required oc-
casiOnally; but tho most powerful
struggles will fail, is the way to them
bs not paved by attention to small
things; and their efforts will be lost IL
little things are not made 20 follow
and aid them in their proper order.
The mind and the heart are like n
house iu which we take dodgers. They
may be honest and quiet or, on the
other hand, noisy and desUuctive
seeking only to spoil tho dwelling
which receives them Let ne beware.
then, Of the ideas 20 which we give hos
pitality; let us not pick them at ran
do in any book or Journal which falls
into our hands. There arc ideas which
once admitted, can be dislodged only
with great difficulty,