The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-19
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain
surroundings and eases hard lot.
Know well your incomings, and your
outgoings may be better regulated.
Hope sOftpns sorrow, brightens plain
surroundings, and eases hard lot.
1T is more profitable to look I'D our
defects than to boast OF our attalnments.
How few faults are there seen bv ia
which we have not ourselves commit-
ted.
Some hearts, like evening primroses
open most beautifully in tho shadow Of
life.
PASSIONS are, perhaps, the stings
without which, it is said, no honey Is
made.
lie who puts bad construction upon
Il good act, reveals his own wickedness
| at heart.
He who refuses justice to the Defence
less VIII make every concession to tho
powerful.
IN memory's mellowcd light we be-
hold not the thorns; We see only the
beautiful flowers.
! 1t Is not what you have In your chest.
Dot what you have in your heart, that
makes you rich.
Nature knows no pause In progress
anu deveiopment, and attaches her
curse to ali inyction.
1t Is not wise to reject benefits when
tney are offered; when you want them
Lhcy may be refused.
1t Is all very we'll to be a promising
youth, but the hard part is to keen
your promise in after liie.l
Let friendship creep. gently to a
height; If it rusncs to It! it may soon
run Itself OUT OF breath.
10 bo wise Is to feel that all that ~
earthly Is transient, AMI To exDerience
misfortune Is to become wise.
All men look to happiness In the tn
ture. 10 every eye heaven and earth
seem TO embrace in the distance.
There are some persons OH whom
their faults sit well, and Others who nra
lilaoe ohgraceful by their good quail
ties.
When bad men combine. the good
must associate, else they will fall, ono
ny one, an unpitied sacrifice In a CON-
tcmptiblc struggle.
Have nothing to do with any man I'm
y passion, for men are not like iron to
% wrought out when hot, or mould, Il
into any given form.
The kecnest abuse of our enemies
Will not hurt us SO much in tho eslimu-
tlou o! the discerning ns the injuIicuus
praise OF our friends.
Many man has reached the summit
or lame, and then looked down into
the humble valley he came from, and
longed to be there again.
Or this be certain, that no trade Is so
al visiting and dissipation.
The business Of life Is to 70 forward.
He who sccs evil In prospect meets iC
on the way; but he who catches it by
retro. nr ction turns back to find 1t.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to
their ears: The effect Of precepts IL
therefore slow and tedious, whilst that
OF examples Is summary and offectuul.
There can be no surer way to success
than by disclniming all confidence In
ourselves, and referring tho events Of
things to God with an implicit trust.
Ideas, as ranked under names, are
those that, for the most part, men rea-
soh Of within themselves, ana always
those which they commune about with
others.
Affection }, like spring flowers, break
through the frozen ground at last, and
The heart, which seeks but for another
heart to make 1t happy will never seek
in vain.
Humility Is virtue all preach, none
practice. and yet ever ybody Is content
TO hear. TIE master Thinks 1t good
doctrine for his servant, the clergy for
the laity.
While 1t Is impossible, even after con-
version, to live without SHINING. yet
provision i3 made for the forgiveness
Of our daily sins, and the washing Of
the stains,
AS they who for very slight sickness
take physic 10 repair their health, do
rather impair it, SO they who for every
tritle are eager to vindicatc their char
acter, do rather weaken 1t.
We can enjoy fellowship with God
only by walking where he dwolls. If
we would have the cOmpanlonship Of
puro friends, we must 70 in the same
society in which they move.
There must be continual confession
Of sin. He who has nothing to confess
to God at the days close has no realiza-
Jion Of tho holiness of God, or Of tho
requirements Of the divine law.
The violet in the shadow Of the deep
woods IL vs. lovely and fragrant and
precious us the violet in the conserva-
tory of an ducal palace. .Real value
is not to be measured by notoriety.
1t is easy IN the worlds opinion; 1t
Is easy in solitude to live after your
own; but tn. great man is he, who in
the midst of tho crowd, keeps with per-
feet sweetness the independence Of SOL
itude.
The world is looking-glass, and
give hack to evory man the reflection
Of his owu face. Fgown at It, and 1t
will turn and look surly upon you;
laugh at 1t and with 1t, and 1t is a pleas-
ant, kind companion.
FalsehoOd is never 80 successful as
when she bats her hook with truth,
No opinions 80 fatal to us as those that
are not wholly wrong; as no watches
80 efIetually deceive the wearer as those
that are sometimes right.
A good conscience is better than two
witnesses. 1t will consume your griefs5
as the sun dissolves ice.. 1t is q spring
when you are thirsty, a staff when you
are weary: a screen when the sun
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