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


| How few faults are seen by us which
we have not ourselves committed.
DO good to all, that thou mayest keep
thy friends and gain thine enemies.
There are vices which do not deprive
us of friends, and virtues which do.
Love mocks all sorrows but its own,
and 'damps each joy 1t does not yield.
Your benevolepce should seek the
poor before the poor seek your beneyo-
lence.
Men who believe they will die like
beasts are apt to live I'm the same man
ner.
The sourest temper must sweeten I'm
the atmosphere Of continuous good
numOr.
He that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass
himself.
1t Is counted an honor to live like
princes, but it is greater honor to give
like princes.
Nothing ever touched the heart Of a
reader that did not come from the heart
of the writer.
There is an alchemy In a high heart
which transmutes other things to it's
own quality.
Some people think it an excess OF
magnanimity to forgive those whom
they have injured.
A sincere confession OF our ignor-
ance is one of the fairest and suregt tes-
timOnies of our own judgment.
know Of no manner OF speaking SO
offensive as giving praise and qualify
ing it with an exception.
Exemption from care is not happi-
ness; on the contrary, certain degree
of care is essential TO enjoyment.
The poorest educatien that teaches
self-control is better than the best that
neglects it.
Of learning the most difficult part Is
to'unlearn, hence the necessity Of be-
ginning betimes.
Ingratitude is kind of mental weak
ness. We have never seen any able
man who was ungrateful.
Man ought always to have something
that he prefers to life, otherwise lite
itself will appear tiresome and void.
Don't pin your faith on so-called
great men. You will find most of them
very small as you approach them.
A man who has duly considered the
condition of his being, will coItented-
ly yield to the course of things.
Secret kindnesses done TO your fell
low-creatures are as beautiful as secret
injuries are detestable.
Without the virtue of humility one
can neither be hOnesC in poverty nor
contented in abundance.
1t takes less time to get over ones
misfOrtunes than tn I've reconciled TO "A
neighbours good fortune.
Not that which men do worthily,
but that which they do successfully, Is
what history is eager to record.
The only passion that does not blunt
is avarice, and which the longer we
live only becomes keener.
There is no state Of life so anxious as
that of man who does not live accord
ing to the dictates of his own reason.
The object of all ambition should be
to be happy at home; If we are not
happy there, we canEot be elsewhere.
If you want knowledge, you must
toll for 1t; If food, you must toll for it;
and If pleasure you must toll for it.
Don't expect to earn your living
without labor OF hand or head. 1ou
must eat your own bread or somebody
else's.
1t is most mortifying reflection for
any man to consider what he has done
with what he might have
done.
They asked LokInan the fabulist from
whom did you learn manners? He an-
swered promptly: From the unman-
nerly.
Sin is never at a stay, if we do not
retreat from 1t, we shall advance In it;
and the further we 60, the more we
have to come back.
Beware of anger of the tongue; con-
troll the tongue. Beware of anger of
the mind. Practice virtue with thy
tongue and with thy mind.
Sow not wishes in other peoples gar
dens; wish not for that which you are
not. but earnestly desire to be the very
best of what you really are.
Health is the only riches that man
ought to set value on; for without Ii
what they will.
Ifany one say that he has seen just
man in want of bread, we answer that
III was III cOiuC pi1CC WnCLC tuCEG was
no other just man. =
Justice is aduty-generosigy is vlr-
tue. Yet the whole is too apt TO regard
the first as favor, and the latter as
folly.
Hard words are like hailstones I'm
summer; beating down and destroying
what they would nourish If they were
melted into drops.
Every human creature is sensible to
some infirmities of temper, which it
should be his care to correct and sub
due, particularly In the early period of
life.
The proper element of man is con-
slant activity. The waters of life are
like those of the Bethesda poel--it is
only when they are agitated that they
are healthful.
1t is better to set a frugal and well
come table before the guest instantly,
than to keep him waiting a long time,
IN order to provide tor him splendid
repast, perhaps grudgingly.
Reticence is a valuable power, but
one in the use of which great discre-
tion is required; and it loses all it's dig
nifty all its dignity as soon as 1t is prac-
ticed without sufficient cause.
Never let a lie go to seed in your souls.
If you should happen to be tempted in
to telling falsehood, let it be plucked
out by a prouder confession of your
fault as quickly as possible.
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