Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

| truth spoken without Charity.
Religion is the Lest armor q man can
| have but the worst cloak.
The best sort of revenge Is not to be
like him who does the injury.
They are never alone that are accom-
panied with noble thoughts.
Our acts make or mar us; we are the
children of our own deeds.
An ingenious mind feels ia unmeri-
ted praise the bitterest reprOof.
A foolish friend is, at times, great
er annoyance than wise enemy.
DO good and throw it into the sea f; il
the fish know it not the Lord will.
They are never alone who are accom-
panied with noble thoughts.
They who have true light in them
selves seldom become satellites.
Good temper is like a sunny day; 1t
sheds its brightness on everything.
Without contentment there is no
wealth, and with it there is no poverty.
He has mastered all things who has
combined the useful with the agreeable.
A mans good brG eding is the best Sc
curity against other peoples i'll man
ners.
He who thinks he has nothing TO fear
from temptation is most exposed TO Il
fall.
Pedantry consists In the use of words
unsuitable to the time, place and COM
panY.
There are three things which nobody
can do withOut--money, buttons, and
the baker.
Be constant In what is good, but be-
ware of being obstinate in anything
that is evil.
All that tread the globe are but q
mere handful to the tribes that slumber
in its bosom.
Sin produces fear, fear leads to bond
age, aud bondage makes all our duties
irksome.
Only what we have wrought into
our characters during life can we take
away with US.
In virtue and in health we love TO be
instructed as well as physicked with
pleasure.
The chains Of habit are generally too
small to be felt till they are too small
to be broken.
individuality is everywhere TO be
spared and respected as the root of
everything good.
Let man overcome angor by love,
evil by good, and greedy by liberality
the liar by truth.
Books are men of higher nature, and
the only men who speak aloud for flu
ture times to hear.
The Greeks had their triolgles, the
Romans their triumvirs, and we have
our three-cent pieces,
The best teacher OF duties that still
lie dim TO us is the practice of those
we see and have at hand.
Happiness can be built on virtue
alone. and must of necessity have truth
for its foundation.
Talents are best matured in solitude;
character is best formed in the stormy
billows of the world.
Many a man has been dined out of
his religion, and his politics, aud his
manhood, almost.
Happy the man who can court on
having every day Of his life meaiy
potato, some loose silver. and good
laugh.
What admire in Columbus Is not
his having discovered world, but his
having gone TO search for it on the
faith of an opinion.
Whenever we have to establish new
| relations with any one, let us make an
ample provision or pardon, of indul-
gence and OF kindness.
No man while unhappy can show
forth true noble manhood. Every
thing short of cheer is medicinal, and
medicine was not made for daily use.
Being sometimes asunder heightens
friendship. The greater cause of the
frequent quarrels between relatives Is
their being so much together.
No one is so greatly to be feared as
| the man who is willing TO tell you all
he knows, because the chances are that
he will tell you a great deal more.
If traveller does not meet with one
| who is his better or his equal, lee him
firmly keep his solitary Journey; for
there is no cOmpanionship with fools.
The ha bill Of resolving without acting
is worse than not resolving at all, inas-
much as il gradually sundeTs the natur-
al condition between thought and deed.
Every man should reap from his oc-
| cupation as much pleasure as he can,
and men in congo 1ial occupations have
little need to seek beyond them for
| amusement.
A man sensitive to everything that is
| beautiful in nature can have more en-
joyment in looking up into the sky than
witnessing the best of plays on the mi
mic stage.
| Ii is great thing to see a yonng
man who has the glittering prizes of
this world in his reach, bring all his
| splendid gifts and lay them as a sacri-
| flee on the altar of the Lord.
Ii you were as willing to be as pleas
ant and as anxious to please in your
own home as you are in the company
| of your neighbors, you would have the
| happiest home III the world.
There is no magnanimity in con-
science; it is prone to take us at disad-
vantage. 1t always wields its whip of
scorpions when the soul is secured by
outward circumstance.
We are all able to take care of our
selves in love affairs when we are young,
and when we get old we are all cOnvin-
oed 1f the inability Of other folks in
youth, to look out for themselves.
He who brings ridicule to bear
against truth finds in his hand blade
without a hilt. The most sparkling
and pointed flame of wit t1ickers and
expires against the combustible walls
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