Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-10
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Avoid an angry man for q while-a
malicious enc f0re aEfF5
A judicious silence IL better than
truth spoken with charity.
Nature is the master OF talent genl-
us Is the master of nature.
Have a care of whom you talk, to
whom, and what, and where.
Make not thy friend too cheap to
thee, nor thyself TO thy friend.
An idle reason lessons the weight OF
the good ones you gave before.
What is becoming is honorable, and
what Is honorable is becoming.
Earnestness Of purpose can spring
only from strong convictions.
There can be no true thankfulness
where there is no beneVolence.
You should forgive many things In
others, but nothing In yourself.
The good which you do may not be
lost, though it may be forgotten.
He that catches more than belongs 20
him, deserves TO lose what Inc has.
The more we help others to bear their
burdens, the lighter will be our own.
The trouble with many communities
Ia. that their dead men refuse to be
buried.
Man believes that to be lie which
contradlcts the testimony OF bis own
Ignorance.
A friend cannot be known in pros
perity, and an enemy cannot be hid In
adversely. t--re
1t is good in fever. and much better
in anger, to have the toague kept clean
and smooth, e. o
Never send your guest who Is accus-
toned to a warm room, into q colds
damp bed 70 sleep.
Taking penny that does not belong
to one removes the barrier between in-
tegriry and rascality.
Patience on a monument is all well
enough for poets, but doctors plant
their patients beneath.
Never fail to offer the easiest aud
best seat in the room to an invalid, an
elderly person or a lady.
Never neglect to perform the COM
mission which the friend Intrusted to
you. You must not forget.
The loud tones In which some per-
sons appeal to reason imply that reas-
on is great distance from them.
The happiness Of the tender heart Is
increased by what it can take away
from the wretchedness of others.
Intellectual pride is less outraged by
the obscurities Of faith than by the au-
thOrity with which Ii is clothed.
Let every one sweep the drift from
his own door and not busy himself
about the frost ON his ne1ghbor's tiles.
Christianity is the element IN mod
ern civilization that secures it against
the vicissitudes Of another olviliza-
ton,
Reflection is flower OF the mind,
giving out wholesome fragrance; re-
verie is the same flower when running
to seed.
1t is safer to affront some people than
TO Oblige them, for the better N man
deserves the worse they will speak Of
him.
We may dwell 50 exclusively on the
many forms of right-doi ng as to shut
from view the presence of goodness
itself.
Right habit is like the chanuel, which
dictates the course in which the river
shall flow, and which grows deeper
and deeper with each year.
A man need only correct himself
with the same rigor that he apprehends
others, and excuse others with the
same indulgence that he shows 20 HIM
self. W fu -
OF Trebonius, Tullius said: ''[ am
glad he whom must have loved from
duty, whatever he had been, Is such as
[ can love from inclination"
Never put much confidence In. such
as put no confidence I'm others. A man
prone to suspect evil is mostly looking
out for what he sees in himself.
Infamy is where it is received. If
thou art a mud wall, 1t will stick; IL
marble, it will rebound. liz thou storm
at it, 1t Is thine; If thou cOntemn iCs
it IL his. 34i
Handsome people usually are so fan.
tasticAlly pleased with themselves. that
il they do not kill at first sight, as the
phrase is, a second Interview depriVes
them of all their power.
Great wees are the proper objects OF
our detestation-smaller faults. of our
pity; but affectatton appears TO be the
only true source OF the ridiculous.
No man has come TO true greatness
who has not felt In some degree that
his life belongs to his race, and that
what God gives him he gives him for
mankind.
The very heart and root of sin is an
independent and selfish spirit. We
erect the idol self, and not only wish
others to worship it, but we worship it
ourselves. .,t.-- l4..ft
Universal love liz like a glove with
out fingers, which fits all hands alike,
and none closely; but true affection Is
like a glove with fingers, which dts
one hand only, and fits close TO that
one,
1t is when our budding hopes are
nipped beyond recovery by some rough
wind that we are most disposed to pic
ture to ourselves what flowers they
might have borne had they fiouriShed.
The great sorrows Of life are either
curse or 3 blessing to US. Even the
open grave may be doorway iRtO the
heaven of a larger faith or the open
way into life of solemn despair.
The intellect of man sits visIbly en-
thrOned upon his forehead and in his
eve, and the heart of man is written
upon his oountenance, But the soul
reveals itself in tile voice only, as God
revealed himself tG-the prophets Of cid
in the stlll, small voice from the burn
ing bush.
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