The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-01
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Contentmcnt abides with truth.

| never associate with bad company.
lave good company or none.
There Is nothing so fatal to comfort
as we'll as to decorum, as Fuss.
There never was, and there never
Will be believing prayer unans wered.
DO good to all, that thou mayest keep
thy friends, and gain thine enemies.
1t is as sinful to doubt Gods willing
ness to save as to doubt his existence.
1t Is the best proof of the virtues of
family circle to see happy flreside.
Christ is God STOPPING to the senses
and speaking to the heart Of man.
ltis fool who praises himself, and
madman who speaks i'll Of himself.
A religion that never sutllces to gov
ern man will never suffice to save him.
How few faults are there seen by us,
which we have noe ourselves committed.
1t is more profitable to look up our
| detects than to boast of our attainments.
| The rays of happiness, like those Of
| light, are colorless when unbroken.
The oil Of the lamp III tho temple
burnt away in giving light; SO should
we.
The heart is a book which we ought
not to tear in our hurry to get at its
| contents.
An hour should never pass without
| our looking up to God for forgiveness
and peace.
Good thoughts, like rose leaves, give
out a sweet smell If laid up In the jar
OF memory.
Ii rich be not too joyful in having,
too soicitious in keeping, too SORROW
full IN loosing.
All mon look to happiness in the fiji
ture. 10 every eye heaven and earth
seem to embrace In the distance.
Our own hands are heavens favorite
instruments for supplying us with the
necessaries and luXuries Of life.
No man IS rich whose expenditures
exceed his means; and no one Is Door
whose incomings exceed his outgoings
A soul which studies it's spiritual in
cerests In quarter of an hours daily
| meditation can never be lost.
Gray hairs seem like the light of Il
soft morn, silvering over tile evening
Of life.
The best teacher Of duties that still
lie linn to us is the practice of those we
see and have at hand.
Adversity is the trial of principle.
Without it, man hardly knows
whether lie is honest or not.
When man speaks the truth you
sesses most other virtues.
The greatest pleasure know is to do
a good action by stealth and to have il
found out by accident.
10 nourish angry passions against
man whom really once liked would be
to lay blister on my heart.
The remembrance Of beloved moth
er becomes the shadow of all our ac-
tlons; it either goes before or follows.
Some poet prettllv describes getting
old, as standing at life's west win
| dow.'
One of the hardes. tasks ever set Il
man Is to forget the good deeds he has
done and to chide nlmself for the evil.
Nothing is small that is the will of
God, and nothing Is great-so great
that we cannot do it-if 1t is the will
ofGod.
A sense of forgiveness does not pro-
| ceed from marks seen in yourself, but
from discovery Of the beauty and free
ness of Christ.
| How great one's virtue is best appears
by occasion Of adversely, for occasions
do not make man frail, but show what
he really Is.
| If any one says he has seen Just
man In want of bread, answer that it
was in some place where there was no
other just man.
Good books effected in Loyola what
the fear OF approaching death, heav-
emily apparition, miraculous restora-
zion to health had failed to do.
| Happy is he who has learned to do
the plain duty Of the moment quickly
and cheerfully, wherever and whatever
it may be.
Make no man your idol, for the best
man must have faults; and his faults
will insensibly become yours, in addi-
ticn to your own. This is as true III
art as in morals.
| The wise man preserves in his own
bosom the sacred flame which enlight-
ems him, though winds may blow and
tcmpests roar without.
IF any one tells you that mountain
has changed its place, believe it; but
If any one says that a man has changed
his character, believe itnot.
| Even in tho present twilight of our
practical and moral knowledge, we may
perceive, by every form Of instance,
how often tic wisdom oflove, goodness,
and simplicity wins, even In the races
of this world, against the wisdom of
crafty and astute sclf-sceking.
The only way to shine, even in this
false world, is to be modest and unas-
suming. Falsehood may be thick crust
ed; but, in the course Of time, truth will
find a place to break through. Ele-
gance Of language may not be in the
power of us all; but simplicity and
traightforwardness are.
| Whatever you do, never set up for Il
critic. We do not mean a newspaper
critic, but one in private life, in the do
| m19tfn cfrcIe In aopfntu II xui11 nnt Ia
great harm, If you mind being called
disagreeable. If you do not like any
ones nose, or object to any ones chin,
do not put your feelings into wordSes
IF any ones manners do not please you&|
remember your own. People are not
all made to suit one taste; recollectx
that. Take things as you find them,
unless you can alter them. Even q