West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-11-22
NO. II.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

hungry,
A man used TO viCissitude is not eas
lily detected.
Charity gives itself rien, but covet-
Gus boards itself poor.
One SMILE for the living Is worth a
dozen tears Tor the dead.
As the body is purified by water, SO
- the soul purified by truth.
Human life IL everywhere a state in
which must is TO bo endured.
Far happier are they who slway.
know what they will do.
The beat thing In tho world Is to be
able To 1.-Two above the world.
Everybody knows good counsel ex.
cept him that hath need of IL.
lie who can take advice is sometimes
superior To him who can give it
Divine vengeance comes with feet OF
lead, but strikes with tho hand OF iron.
Life is "A comedy te him who thinks.
and tragedy to him who feels.
Surely half the world must be blind,
they can sec nothing unless 1t glltters.
man, when he rises In the morning,
llitte knows what he may do before
night.
All things are admired, either be-
cause they are new or because they are
not great.
Human life Is everywhere "A state
ia which much IL to be endured and
little to be enjoyed.
\ little less money and little more
good character would improve hosts OF
people vastly.
Our best Intentions, evon when they
have been most prudently formed, fail
often In their Issue.
Tue miles to heaven are few and
short aud the glorious end Will come
soon.
Many man has been dined out OF
his religion, and his politics, and his
manhood, almost.
Go your way and don't trouble about
your neighbors. A man never peeps
through keyholc without finding
something to vex him.
II Is vastly better to have little with
contentment than riches with worry.
The ASS that carries you Is worth more
than the horse that throws you.
Ruin is the only cure for ruin with
some people; there Is nothing but the
recoil that comes OF disgrace that Will
save a man of vanity aud egotism.
TIere Is an cmanation from the heart
In genuine hospitality which cannot be
described, but IL Immediately felt, and
puts the stranger at once at his ease.
There is no actien Of man in this life
which Is not tho begin sing OF so longa u
chain OF consequences, AS that no hu-
man providence Is high enough TO give
us prospect TO the end.
lie who learns and makes no use of
hIs learning Is "a beast of burden with
load of books. Comprohendeth the
ASS whether he carries on hls back IA
library or n bundle of lageots2
The Chinese, whom IL might be well
to disparage less and initiate more, seem
almost the only people among whom
learning and merit have the ascendency
and wealth is not the standard of esti-
nation.
You meet In this world with false
mlrth rs often as with false gravity;
the grinning hypoorite Is not more
uncommon character than the groanlng
one, and from full mind as from All
empty head.
IL were better to have no opinion OF
God at all than such an opinion as is
unworthy OF Him; fo- the one is un-
belief and the other Is contumely; and
certainly superstition is the reproach
Of the Deity.
Witty sayings are as easily lost as
the pearls slipping of broken string,
but word OF kindness Is seldom spok-
ON I'm vain. II is Il seed VIII ich, even
when dropped by chance, springs upa
flower.
The great moments of life are but
moments like the others. Your doom
Is spoken In II word or two. a single
look from the eyes, II mere pressure OF
the hand may decide IT,, or OF the lips,
though they carnot speak.
All men and women are verify, a.
Shakespeare hes said OF them, merely
players, when we see them upon the
stage OF the world--that is, when they
are seen any where except in the free
dom and unaffected Intimacy OF private
l.fe.
When people coTce to see US, we fool
! ishly prattle, lest We be inhOspitable.
But things said for conversation are
chalk eggs. Don't say things. What
| you are stands over you the while, and
founders so that / can't hear what you
say ~ the contrary,
Examine your lives, weigh your
motives, watch ever your conduct, and
/ you will not take long 20 learn or dis.
cover enough 70 make you entertain
/ INai llhbi1 blilhtouh ol obUtIks DO nuFbu
/ la your judgment Of self; be tender IN
| your judgment Of others.
Marriage means renunciatlon as well
as acceptance; IL means giving as we'll
As receiving; II means serving as well
as being served; IL means patience a.
/ we'll "a hope; 10 means submission as
we'll as being submitted unto. IL
means, ls short, that the wedding day
IS the beginning, not the end.
Lovers abstain from caresses, and
/ haters from insults, whilst they sit In
one parior with common friends.
Would We codify the laws that should
reign in households, and whose daily
transgressiOn annOys and mortifies us,
aud dcgrades our household life, we
must learn to adore every day with
sacrifices.
Aecustom yourself 70 think vigorous
Ily. Mental capital, like pecuniary, to
be- worth anything must be we'll In
! vested must be rightly adjusted and
applied, and % this end careful and
deep thought Is necessary if great re
suits are looked for. There Is no such
| thug as standing still in this world.
Change Is the eternal law Of nature.
How many, adorned with all tho rar-
/ itics of intellect, have stumbled on the
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