The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-10
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

vices there Is no crime of deeUer dive
than that Of ingratltudc.
The freely only shines when on tho
wing. SO 1t is with the mind: when
once we rest we darken.
AS the pearl rlpens in the obscurity
OF the shell, so ripens in the tomb all
the fame that Is truly precious.
Every man endeavors with his utmost
care 20 hide his poverty from others,
and his idleness from himself.
Pursue what you know to be attatna-
bic; make truth your object, and your
studies will make you wise man.
| Whoever is honorable and candid.
honest and courteous, is a true gentle
man, whether learned or unlearned.
rich or poor.
| We bear within us the seeds of great
ness; but suffer them to spring up, and
they evershadOw both our sense and
our happiness.
He who tells a lie Is not sensible how
great task he undertakes; for he
must be forced to inv vent twenty more
to maintain that one.
Character Is power; it makes friends.
creates funds, draws patronage and
support, and opens sure and easy way
to honor, wealth and happiness.
Can there be any greater dotage in
the world than for one to guide and d.
roct his courses by the sound of a bell
and not by his own Judgement and dis
cretion.
Men are like an olG-fashioned coun-
try wagon. When loaded, everything
works we'll and smoothly; with moth
Ing In 1t, it rattles 80 it can be heard
| for miles.
wealth may minister to the best part
OF man, but only miDister-not master.
When it usurps the throne and becomes
monarch, it is of all things most pititul
and abiect.
The way to acquire lasting esteem
Is not by the fewness Of q writer's
faults, but the greatness Of his beauties,
and our noblcst works are generally
most lcplete with both.
Death removes the shutters from the
windows of the soul. Why should we
dread his coming, since his work is to
let ligh Mt anu air into rooms which are
now dark and suifocating?
70 do an evil action is base to do
good one without incurring danger Ia
common enough; but 1t is the part Of u
good man to do great and noble deeds.
though he risks everything.
AS the finest wines haye often the
taste OF the soil, so even the most relig-
lous thoughts often draw something
that Is particular from the constitution
Of tho mind in which they arise.
We should not despair of the good
ness of the world If we do not happen
TO see II Immediately around us. The
atmosphere is still blue, though 80 much
of 1t Is enclosed In our apartment Is
colorless.
Few seem to have any opinions of
their own, or to think for themselves.
Like dead fish, they go with the stream
and tide; what others think wight they
think right, and what others callwrung
they call wrong too.
If we would begin at the right end,
and look with as much compassion on
the universities Of some as We do with
envy ut the prosperity Of others, every
man would find cause to sit down con.
tentcdly with his own burden.
If any man Is rich and powerful, ho
comes under the law Of God by which
the higher branches must take tho
burning Of the sun and shade those that
are lower by which the tall trees must
protect the week plants beneath them.
This world of ours Ia full of trouble.
Its fair face ls Scared all over with
graves. But the more he studies 1t, the
more one marYels to find how full tho
Bible is Of consolation. That Is the best
evidence Of its Authenticity that should
be desired.
When man misses anyth ing, his
first idea ts that somebody has stolen it;
and although he ascertalns, ntnety-nino
times In hundred, that the loss Ia
from his own carelessness, still, when
the hundredth time comes he Will lay
1t to thief. gg!,
Nature seems to exist for the excel +
lent. Tho world Is upheld by the ve-
racity Of good men, they mako tho
earth wholesome. Life Is sweet and
solerablc III our bclief In such society;
and actually or ideally We manage to
live without suDeri0rs.
The foundation of content must
spring up In man 's mind; and he who
has SO little knowledge Of human ma
ture as to seek happiness by changing
anything but his own disposition, will
waste his life In fruitless efforts, and
multiply the griefs which he purposes
to remove.
Nothing can be more Injurious to
your peace Of mind than TO have too
many confldents. You live in abiect
slavery evory day, rs You are constant
~ fearing that some one of your nu-
mcrous contldents will reveal secret
you would not have anybody know for
all the world.
There was but one man to whom the
Egyptians could go to IN time Of famine
when they wanted food. They must 20
to Joseph. 1t was Il waste OF time to 90
to any one else. SO also Is there but
one to whom hungerlng souls must 90
If they would not perish forever. They
must go to Christ.
Healthy body, healthy appetite, heal- q
thy feelings, though accompanied witnY
mediocIity Of talent, unadorned with q
WIT and Imagination, and unpublished
by learning and science, will outstrlp 4,
In the race for happiness the splendid
irregularities Of genius, and the ..most
dazzling success Of ambition.
DO not Halter; in doing so you EN-
barrass those upon whom you bestow