The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-10-28
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


self to be caught in a passion.
If you would be satisfied to do what
you can do, rather than what you want
to do, you would be happier.
Every man Is good pilot In a smooth
sea, but when the wind blows then we
find out who knows the most.
II you wish to be as happy as a king
look at those who haven't as much as
you, not 1t those who have more.
When death, the great reconciler,
has come, 1t is never our tenderness
that we repent of, but our severity.
| If you have talents, industry will
strengthen them; If moderate abilities,
industry will supply the deficiency.
The voice Of conscience is so delicate
| that 1t Is easy to stitie 1t, but 1t is also
! so clear that 1t Is impossible to mistake
it.
The best kind Of revenge Is that
which is taken by him who is so gener-
Gus that he refuses to take any revenge
| at all.
10 be born Of the Spirit is the essen
| tial thing, and there must be the wit
Messing of holy walk and CONVEX
sation.
Every person has two educations--
one which he receives from others, and
ono, more important which he gives
himself.
There Is a gift that Ia almost a blow.
and there Is kind word that is muni.
hccncc; so much is thore in the way
we do things.
AS SINS proceed they evor multiply;
like figures In arithmetic, the last on
tue left stands for more than all that
went before it. .7
Man Is all animal that cannot long
90 lefC In safety without occupation,
the growth Of his fallow nature Ia apt
to run to weeds.
II there Is any thing more poignant
than body agonizing for want of
oread, 1t isa soul which Is dying of
|, hunger for light.
Enter upon life IS you would wish
10 retire from it, and spend time Oh
earth rs you would wish to spend eter-
nifty in Heaven.
The worthiest people are most injured
Dy slahderS; as we usually find that to
be the best fruit which the birds have
been pecking at. 80
Though the life Of man falls short
Of hundred years, he gives himself
as much pain and anxiety as If he were
to live thousand.
a man OF intellect Is lost unless he
unites enorgy of character to intellect.
When we have the lantern of Dlogenes
we must have his staff.
a gentle person is like tho, river
moving calmly along; while tho pas
si0nato man Is like the sea, casting uD
mire and dirt continually,
The only qualification u oovetous
man gives his neighbors is to let them
see that he himself Is no better for
what he has than they arc.
1t Is wonderful how silent man can
be when he knows his cause is lust,
and how boisLerous he becomes when
he knows he Is In the wrong.
knowledge always desires increase;
1t Is like fire, which must first be kim
died by some external agent, but whtch
will Afterwards propagate Itself.
Since the generality Of persons act
from impulse much more than from
principle, men are neither so good or
30 bad as we are apt to think them.
Only they who carry sincerity to tho
highest point, In whom there remains
not u single hairs breadtlrof hypocrisy,
can s"e the hidden spring Of things.
Mortality is an event by which a
wise man can never be surprised; we
know that death Is always near, and It
should therefore, always be expected.
A more glorious victory cannot DO
gained over another man than this,
that when the injury began on his
part, for the kindness to begin on ours.
There are some people who think
that eternal vigilance Is a terrible sum
10 pay for liberty, when q sort Of easy
going slavery can be had for half that
price. E....
Incre are errors which no wise man
Will treat with rudeness while there Is
a probability that they may be the re-
fraction of some great truth below the
horizon.
Events are only the shells Of ideas;
and often 1t Is the fluent thought Of
ages that Is crystallzed in moment
by the stroke OF pen or tho point Of Il
bayonet.
The worst SANDER often has in it
some truth from which we may learn a
| lesson that may make US wiser, and If
we will, better, when the first smart Of
it is over.
The humble man, though surroun-
ded with the soorn and reproach of the
world, Is still In peace, for the stability
Of his peace resteth not upon the
world, but upon God.
| Humor is very important element
In every mans life. Neither man nor
plant thrlves in the shade. 1t Is nec-
essary however, to soc that it is good
humor rather than bad.
Pride is seldom delicate; It will
please itself with very mean advan-
tages; and envy feels not its own hap
piness, but when 1t may be compared
with the misery Of others. ...a
Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man Is richer, happier
or wiser for It,. 1t oommends no one to
society; 1t Is disgusting to refined peo-
pie, anu abomlnable to the good.
Blessed is he who gives to the poor,
albeit only penny doubly blessed be
he who adds kind words to his gift.
Say not because thou cans't not do
everything, ~ will do nothing.''
However early In tho morning you
seek tho gate of access, you find 1t al
ready open; and however deep the mid
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