The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-07
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

whenever you nnd man who has
nothing to do you will notice that he
1s equal to the task.
1t is a fact worth remembering that
IL does not take half as long to make
wound as TO heal one.
lie who has true friend has great
rlches: he who has false friend is
hopelessly in debt.
prosperity is not without many fears
anu oistastes,a ,and advcrsity Is not with
ost comfort and hopes. ''''
"A bad boy becomes bad man about
as easily and almost AZ Inevitably as a
tadpole becomes frog.
Ihere ls happiness enough in the
worlo 1or an OF us. The chief 6ifflcul-
ty is In getting our share of it.
If you do not help others God may
treat you as men do their stewards.
take your talent away from you.
1t Is not difficult to do good. for the
means are constantly clusferins Iet q hon. Uno
every mans lips and hands.
A man can profess moro religion in
fifty minutes than he can practice by
working hard for fifty years.
Every man Is good pilot in a smooth
sea, but when the wind blows then we
find out who knows the most.
Feverlsh, anxious, expectant wait
ing roGs the thing desired Of half Its
pleasures and wears upon the soul.
The first step to self-knowledge is
self-trust. Nor can we attain to any
knowledge except by Il like process.
What blessing it Is to be simple:
10 nave the body satisfied with simple
1eod and the mind with simple truth,
10 be born of the Spirit is the es-
sential thing, and there must be the
witnessing of a holy walk and oonver.
| satlOn.
| 1t is great deal better to do a kind.
~ ueeu 10 man when he Is living
Than to weep over him when he {.
| dead.
Tho object Of all s.mbitton should be
10 DO happy at homo. If we are not
happy there, we cannot be happy else.
where.
NO man over lived who had only
one fault. A single fault has both sex
family.
Tears are the gift which love bestows
upon the memory Of the absent and
they VIII avail to keep the heart from
| sutfocation.
When you are siok it oomas easy to
when you recover it Is Just as easw to
forgot thcm.
LUCK is good thing. but one cam
ho1 always afford to wait for 1t. Pluck
ls Il better thing, because it is always
ready to begin.
u ls sometimes pretty hard to decide
| "hloh gives us more pleasure, to hear
SS~9fIsfetXYSs S9I fuYf @ @RrsiSed or to hear our neigh
Dllseries como unbtdden and ALWAYS
stay too long, while JOYS must be
soughS for, and when found are apt to
| slip away unaWares. n,
The man who composes fine speeoh
III order to shame his neighbors ought
lirst TO recite it before mirror and 40
| shame himself.
Here ls very serious question for
our moralists: lfa man Ia as good as
his word and his word is rood for
nothing how good Is he?
An impression for good or evil is Of
ten left upon tho mind and bears fruit,
when what has caused the influences
mas passed aWav from our memories.
me voice Of conscience Is 80 deli
cate Jhat 1t Ia easy to stife Ii, but It Ia
also 80 clear that it Is Impossible to
mistake 1t.
Every person has two educations-
one which he receives from others.
and one, moro important; which he
gives himself.
Man ls an animal that cannot long
90 left IN safety without occupation,
the growth Of his fallow nature is ant
to run to weeds.
The love that DESTROYS pride and
cavy, and that teaches us to endure trl-
DulatlOns, fits us for heaven, and will
W our eternal portion In heaven.
There Is one problem which tho
most reokloss mathcmati0ians have
Dcen compelled to give up-namely.
now many women 1t takes to keep a
secret.
How many useful hints are obtained
by chance, and how often tho mind,
hurried by her own ardor to distant
Views, ,neglects the truths that lie open
before her.
Thore Is a pleasure in contemplating
good; there Is great pleasure in receiv-
Ing good: but the greatest pleasure OF
all IL doing good, which comprehends
the rest.
The Providence which watches over
tho affairs OF mon works out Of their
mistakes, at times, healthier issue
than could have been accomplished by
their Wisest forethought.
Events are only tho winged shuttles
which ly from one side OF the loom of
life to the other, bearing tho many
colored threads out OF which the fabric
Of our character Is made.
1t Is wonderful how silent a man
can be when he knows his cause Is
just, and how bOisterous he becomes
when he knows lie Is in the wrong.
A man of intellect Is lost unless he
unltes energy Of character to intellect.
When we have the lantern OF Diogenes
we must have his staff,
knowledge always desires increase;
1t Is like fro, which must tirstbe kind
led by some external agent, but which
Will afterwards propagate itself.
A kind word is worth sometimes
moro than g dollar. And yet If the
exchange could be made at par every
body would make business of say
ing kind words and so their kindness
WOuld ba dastrOva1 ....