West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-01-31
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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surroundings and eases n hard lot.
Know well your incomings, and your
outgoings may be better regulated.
Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain
surroundings, and eases u hard lot.
it IL more profitable to look up our
defects than TO boast OF our attainments.
How few faults are there seen by us
which We have not ourselves commit
ted.
Somo hearts, like evening primroses.
open most beautifully in the shadow OF
lite.
Passions are, perhaps, the stings
without which, IL is said, no honey is
made.
lie who puts bad construction upon
good act, reveals his own wickedmess
at heart.
lie who refuses Justice to the defence
less VIII make every concession To the
powerful.
In mcmory's mellowod light we be-
holu not the thorns; we SEQ only the
beautiful flowers.
1t isnot what you have In your chest,
bUt what you have In your heart, that
makes you rich.
Nature knows no pause In progress
curse To all lnaction.
1t Is not wise To reject benefits when
tuey are offered; when you want them
they may be refused.
IL Is all very well to be promising
youth. DuI the hard part Is to keep
your promise In alter lifo.
Let friendship creep gently to a
helEhti II H. rusncs 10 It, ~ may soon
run itself out OF breath
To hn wise is To feel that all that Is
earthly Is transient, AN 10 experience
misfortune Is 10 become wise.
All men look To happiness In the f,l-
Jure. To every eye heaven aud earth
seem To embrace IN the distance.
There are some persons on whom
their faults SIT well, and others who are
made ungraceiul by their good quail
ties.
When bad men combine, the good
must associate, else they viii TALL, ono
by one, an unpitied sacrifice In "A CON
temptlDle struggle.
Have nothing To do with any man In
a passion, Tor men are not like iron to
DO wrought out when hot, or moulded
into any givon form.
The keenest abuse of our enemies
tion o, tho DISCERNING as tho injudicious
praise oI our friends.
Many man has reached tho summit
of iame, and then looked down into
the hump Ole valley lie came FROM, and
lonyed 10 be there again.
Or this be certain, that no trade l. 40
bad as none NJ all, nor any life 80 tire
some as that which is spent In continu-
al VISITING and dissipation.
The business OF life Is To 10 for ward.
lie who secs evil In prospect meets it
on the way; but he who catches 1t by
reLrospecuon turns back To find 1t.
Men trust rather To their eyes than to
thcir cars: Tie effect of precepts Id
therefore slow and tedious, whilst that
vi examples ls summary and etiectual.
There can be no sureT way To success
IMAM ny dlsclaiming ali confidence In
ourselves, ana referring the events oil
Ihlngs L" Cod with an implicit trust.
Ideas, as ranked under names, are
those that, for the most part, men Tea-
sOa oil WITHIN themselves, anu always
those which they commune about with
others.
Affections, like spring flowers, break
through the frozen ground at last, and
the heart, which seeks but for another
heart To Lake 10 happy will never seek
ia vain.
Humility is IA virtue all preach, none
practice. aud yet ever ybOdy Us content
10 hear. TIE master thinks 1t good
doctrine for his servant, the clergy Tor
the lalty.
While tits impossible, even after con-
version, to live without SHINING. yet
provision is made for the forgiveness
OF our daily sins, and the washing of
the stains,
As they who for very slight sickness
take physic TO repair their health, do
rather impair lt, so they who for every
trIhe are eager 10 vindicate their cIiar-
| actcr, do rather weaken lt.
We can enjoy fellowship with God
only by walking where lis dwells. If
we would have the cOmpanIonship Of
pure friends, we must 20 In the same
society in which they move.
There must be continual confession
Of sin. lie who has nothing 20 confess
TO God at the days close has no realiza-
tlOn OF the holiness Of God, or Of the
requirements of the divine law.
The violet in the SHADOW Of the deep
woods is a. lovely aud fragrant aud
precious as the violet in the conserya-
tory Of an ducal palace. Real value
rs not TO be measured by notOrlety.
lt is easy IN the worlds opinion; lt
is easy in solitude 10 live after your
own; but the great man Is he, who i'm
tho midst Of the crowd, keeps with per-
iect sweetness the independence Of sol
itude.
The world is lOOking-glass, and
! give hack TO every man the reflection
Of his owl face. Frown at 10, and 10
will turn aud look surly upon you;
| laugh at 10 and with it, and itisa pleas
ant, kind companion.
FalsehOod is never go successful as
when she bats her hook with truth.
! No opinions so fatal 10 us as those that
arc not wholly wrong; as no watches
80 Cfietually deceive the wearer as those
that are sometimes right.
A good conscience is better than two
witnesses. II will consume your griefs
az the sun dissOlves ice. lt Is spring
when you are thirsty, staff when you
are weary: screen when the sun
burns you, and a pillow I'm death.
lie who Is passionate and hasty Is
generally honest. 10 Is your old, die
| scmbling hypOcfites OF whom you
should beware. There's no deception
/ In bull dog; II is only the cur tnat