The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Fortune can only take from US what
She gave.
Never expose your disappointment to
the world.
Ii you would make a thief honest.
trust him.
done we'll.
A good book supplies the place of a
| companion.
The simple flowers are sociable and
benevolent.
Angel9 like rain, breaks upon what
ever 1t falls.
An evil conscience Is always fearful
| ana unquiet.
Thou shalt rest sweetly If thy heart
condemn thee not.
None have less praise than those who
hunt most after 1t.
content Is better than money, and
Just ABOUT as scarce.
Ihat glory Is short which Is given
ana received from men.
He wall easily be content and at peace
whose conscience Is pure.
Thou art not the more holy for being
praised, nor the more worthless for be-
Ing blamed.
Every man, coming to au obscure old
age, thinks he would have achieved
wealth and distinction t.
1t Is sweet to have friends vou can
trust, anu convenient sometimes to have
lflehds VINO are hot afraid to trust you,
He that thinks himself the happlest
man Is really so; but he who thinks
himself the wisest man is the greatest
tool. o0''
That soldier can never answer # to
dou that hath not good cause, and
strlketh not rathnr as a justlcer than as
Il soldier.
Many times there comes SON that Is
aS goou with fork as his father WAS
WIN rake; as great a spend-all as his
rather was get-all.
foss1bly the calandar Of heaven hath
post-datc TO ours. Such 1t Is that as
dod seldom comes at our time; so he
never fails at Ills own.
NO matter how small sin may appear
IN the beginning, 1t touches, by way Of
conflict und opposition every attribute
for the Divine Character.
God will so mortifY the deeds of the
ooay py Ills spirit, that sin shall not
play King in us; the traveller shall not
become The man OF tho house.
1t was the speech of a learned man:
Ii there be but one sigh come from a
gracious heart 1t fills the. ear OF God, so
That God hears nothing else.
The happlest man in the world Is tho
one with just wealth enough to keep
him In spirits, and Just children
enough to make him Industrious.
We make the greater. part Of the evil
clrcumstances In which we are placed,
nnu then we tit ourselves for those cir
eunstances ny a process of depreciation.
Falschood, like poison, Will generally
DC rejected whom administered alone,
but when blendedswit Who'll esome in
sfedlonts may be swallowed unper-
coivet.
1t is the work of falth to wrap itself
IN tho promises as made to US in par-
ticuiar; and unloss faith be in this
way Aetuatcd, 1t is to comfort, as good
rs no faith.
Thoreau once said: "'Hhere IL no.
where any apology for despondency.
Away, there Is live while life lasts,
which, rightly lived, implies a divine
satisfacLion."
Ills much easlersto meet with error
than TO find truth; error Is on the sur
race, truth Is hidden In great depths;
and the way to seek It does not appear
to all the world.
1t is our wisdom. by keeping a good
conscience, te keep all clear between us
ana heaven, that we may have light
from above, when clouds and darkness
are around about us.
Those who speak always and those
who never speak are equally unfit for
friendship. A good portion Of the tai
ent OF listening and speaking Is the
base Of social virtues.
There Is not a more restless fugitive
upon the earth than he that Is continu-
ally pursued by his own guilt; nor a
worse vagabond than he VINO Is at the
beck Of his own lusts.
Drunkenness Is u fair spoken devil,
pleasant poison, q sweet sin, whlou he
that hath In him hath not himself, and
which he that runs into runs not Into
single sin, butt wholly turned into SIN
To achieve independence, you must
practice habituai frugaliCy, and while
enjoying tho present. look out for the
rainy day, and think Of the possibility
Of old age, which needs to be provided
for.
No man can be in proper frame of
mind for tho discovery and reception Of
truth who Is not utterly regardless of
tho question whether his being In u
majority or minority will be the result
OF his Investigations.
At the day Of Judgment we shall see
an excellent harmony in this record of
things; and all obscure passages shall
be made as plain to us as If they were
written with the most gltttering sun.
beam upon wall Of crystal.
We ought always to deal Justly, not
only with those who are just to us, but
likewise with those who endeavor to
injure US; and this, too, for tear least,
by rendering them evil for evil, we
should fall into tho same vice.
They vino are fallen lowest remember
the heights Of virtue, honor and peace,
whose shining they once behold, and
whose pinnacle they once almost
touched. And are wo not all In some
sense and some degree fallenp
Warm your body by healthful exer-
clea NOT nv cnwnrinn Ovar atnuo Z"