The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-17
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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the higher you can SEQ.
We arc as liable to be corrupted bv
DOCKS rs by companions.
The great misfortune of all is not to
be able to bear misfortune.
One can not bear to pay for an artI-
Gle he used to get for nothing.
Age that lessons the ENJOYMENT of
life, increases our desire of living.
Example is always more efflcaclous
than preccpt.
Few things are impossible to dill
gence and skill.
lily detected.
One smile for the living is worth a
dozen tears for tho dead.
Laziness is premature death, To be
III no action, Is not to live.
Divine vengeance comes with feet of
lead, but strikes with the hand Of iron.
Absence destroys triiling intimacics.
but 1t invigorates strong ones.
10 the blessed eternity itself there Is
no other handle than this instant.
Let us search ourselves In the first
place, and afterwards the world.
Ragged clothing cannot debase a man
rs much as frayed reputation.
If evil be said Of thee, and it is true,
correct It,; If it be lie, laugh at it.
Employment is NATURES physician,
and Is essential to human happiness.
If every year we rooted out ono vice,
we should soon become perfect men.
| No one will dare maintain that it is
better to do injustice than to bear 1t.
1t Is more profitable to look up our de-
fleets than to boast of our attafnments.
A man owes his success in his life
| work to the woman who walks beside
dim.
The sweetest thing on earth is a little
enid when 1t has learned to know and
love. '.
Bodily enjoyment depends upon good
health, and health depends upon tenn
perance.
knowledge will always predominate
over ignorance, as man governs the
other animals.
Human life Is everywhere state In
which much is.to be endured, and little
to be enjoyed.
After friendship and love como bene-
Violence and that compassion which
unites tho soul to the unfortunate.
How contagious is tho laugh Of some
'AN' J"' AhhH UltNb Vi OGNcES, llkC
playing on a WornOut piano,
The innocence and purity of Child
hood brings bitter heart pangs to the
sin-hardencd man and worldly woman.
People who cannot heartily love and
nate VIII never command tho first or
know the clearing influence of the lat
tor. ..''
1t is better to wear out than to rust
DILL. w 1u trIl lya
while 1t Is hot, but strike until 1t is
made hot.
Lifc would surely be dreary waste
II one could not havo his picture taken
every time new collar Is introduced
| into the market. W r,rt,y
only they who carry sincerity to the
| highest point, in whom there remains
not single hairs breadth of hypocrisy,
can see the hidden springs Of things.
Good pictures are great teachers. A
fine work of art hanging in ones house
speaks to him constantly In language
or tender beauty that wins Its way to
the heart.
A superior capacity for business, and
more extensive knowledge, are steps
ny which new man often mounts to
favor and outslines the rest of his con-
temporarios.
How fcw realize that the strata of
love and hate lie so close together that
1t takes but little to bring the latter up-
permost, when under the pressure of
unkindness or injustice. ..a.r
Great works are performed, not by
strength, but by perseverance he that
shall walk with vigor three hours a
day, will pass in seven years space
equal to the circumference of the globe.
The liberty of using harmless pleas
ures will not be disputed; but it ls
still to be examined what pleasures
are harmless. The evil of any pleasure
10 not IN the act itself, but in It's conse-
Quences. RI A,4i.e
Such is the state oflife that none are
happy but by tho anticipation of
whom we have made it the next wish Is
to change, again. The world is not yet
exhausted. t; ia, t..f ,gE .s
Whatever facilitates our work Is more
than an omen; 1t Is a cause Of success.
This is one Of those pleasing Surprises
which often! happens to active resolu-
tion. Many things difficult, to design
prove easy to. performance.
We smile at the ignorance, of the saw
age who cuts down the tree In order to
reach the fruit; but tho fact Is that a
blunder of this dcscription-is made by
every person who Is eyer eager and i'm
patient in the pursuit Of pleasure.
In tho decline Of life, shame and
grief are of short duration; whether It
be that we bear easily what We have
borne long, or that, finding ourselves
In age less regarded, we less regard
others; or, that !"o look with slight re-
gard upon afflictions, to whioh we know
chat the hand Of death is about to put
an end, u ~ aasgy iaf 9ist
The life that is devoted to knowledge
passes silently away, and Is very little
diversified by events. To talk in pub
lie, to think In solitude, to read and to
hear, to inquire, and to answer illquir-
les, Is the business of q scholar. He
wanders about the world without pomp
or terror, and is neither known nor
valued but by mon like himself.
Every day a little self-denial. The,
thing that is difficult to do to-day will