The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-11-04
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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SAND In the eye.
Those who hope for no other life are
dead even for this.
Do not suffer life to stagnate; 1t will
grow muddy for want OF motion.
10 the blessed eternity itself there is
no other handle than this instant. .
What the key Is to the watch, the
prayer Is to our graces.
The heart has its reasons, which Rea-
son does not apprchend.
1t Is not life to 1.-Two for ones self
| alone. Let us help one another. &
Many complain Of their memory, but
none of their Judgment.
a man seldom improves who has no
better model than himself.
Society could not long subsist If men
were notthc dupes of one another.
Consider no work completed that you
might hay0 performed more creditably
He is not so good as he should be who
does not strive to be better than he Is.
There Is not property In nature but
a mind is born to seek and find 1t out.
Let us not imagine evils we do not
feel, nor inJure life by mlsrcpr ,senta&
tions. :.
The life Of solitary man will GER
i|inly be miserable, but not certainly
devout.
No evil Is insupportable but that
which Is accompanied with conscious
ness Of wrong.
No indulgence Of passion destroys
the spiritual nature go much as respcot-
able seltlshncss.
There arc fcw doors through which
liberality, Joined with good humor,
cannot find It's way.
The mind hath reason to remeln-
Der that passions ought % be her vas
sails not her masters. E,
This is the present reward Of virtu-
Gus conduct-that no unlncky conse-
quence can obligc us to grct it.
All virtue lies In the power of deny
ing our own desires when reason docs
not authorize or sanction them.
Even gentleAess can be acquired az
ter a patient exercise OF your better ma
ture.
Clutch virtue as q priceless lowell,
| and handle vice rs you would red-hot
coal.
How can wc expect a harvest of
thought who have not had a sced-time
| of character?
Mankind worship success, but think
TOO little of t 10 means by which 1t Is at
tanned.
Man judges OF our motives by our ac-
tlons. God Judges Of our actions by
our motives.
The mindof youth cannot remain enlp-
ty; tfyou do notputs in to 1t that which Is
good, 1t Will gather elsewhere that
which Is evil.
If we could road the secret history of
our enemies, wo should find In each
mans life sorrow and suffering enough
to dlsarm all hostility. a4
Young mon often full to get on In
this world because they neglect small
opportunities. Not being faithful in
little things, they are not promoted to
the charge of greater things.
10 put up with the world Is better than
to control it. This Is the very acme of
virtue. Religion leads us to 1t in a day;
philosophy only conducts to It by II
heightened life, misery, or death.
When ono flattcringly praises me,
me, assists my faults, and forglves mo !
before have repented-he.i is my ene-
my.
Men must trust rather to their eyes
than to their ears; tho effect of precept I
Is, therefore, slow and tedious, whilst
that Of example Is summary and effec-
tual: t
1t Is not tho strange Sights that w0
shall see In heaven that will so much
delight us; not the glitter and the
glory; not the diamond and topaz no,
1t Is God, He is all and in all. 2lS
1t Is great disgrace to religion to
imagine that 1t Is an enemy to mirth
and chcerfulncss, and severe ex.s
tractor of pensivo looks and SOLEMN
faces.
Could we but prevail with the great
est debauchers among us to change Il
their lives, we should find 1t no very
hard master to change their Judgments.
1t matters to us in life not so mucl,%
what part We play, as It does TO play
our part we'll. In drama it Is not 20
much question who played the king
or tho peasant, as who played the part
best. SIS NJ
Life Is a stream which continually
flows on, but never returns. WotliaS
daily; for each day takes away some
portion Of life, The days which are
past are gone forever; the present mo4S
mont. only is our own. $S55 Is RI .3Sl g
No man can succeed In all his und err L
takings, and 1t would not be we'll for
him to do 80. Things easily acquired
90 easily. 1t is by the struggle It costss
to obtain that we learn to rightly esti-
mate tho value. lSfSf
The love Of glory, the fear Of shame.
tho design of making q fortune, the de -9
sire Of rendering life easy aud agret,a-
BILE, and the humor. Of pulling down
other peoplo, are often the t&usos of
that yalor so celebrated among men.
The soul may be compared to- a field
Of battle, whore the armies are ready
at every moment to encounter 4 Not a I:
single vice but has a more powerful op-Si
ponent, and not one virtue but. may be Z
Ovorborne by comblnatio on of Woes .sss u
Never yet did there exist full faith
In the Divine Word which did not
pand tho intellect while 1t purified tho
heart; which did not mnllip ply the aims
and objects Of Oftheunderstandin wkilo$
1t fixed and simplif flied those of ttie ds:
sircs and feelings. ass'ss
People are apt to think that the hard