The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-05-10
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Cultivate tho habit Of giving, but
never give up.
Give neither counsel nor salt until
, you are asked.
, We are never as happy nor as unhap.
, py as we fancy.
! NO ono wishes to be pitled on ae.
count of his errors.
Grief counts the seconds; happiness
forgets tho hours.
Don't become security for him who
waits for the sheriff.
If word be worth one shakel al
lence ts worth two.
Mon speak OF what they know, ,wom-
en- OF what pleascs them.
He who Is never guilty OF follv I.
not so wise as he tmaglnes.
Prosperity unmasks the v,cea. od-
Verslty reveals the virtues.
Youth is blunder. manhood
struggle, and old age regret
Justlce is like glass which cannot be
Dent, but is easily broken,
Don't leave to memory what sbonld
DC written; 1t makes lawsuits.
mere never was yet a great man
uoless through divine inspiration.
An 1ndlscreet man Is like an un-
sealea letter-eVery one can read #.
100 much sensibility orea ses unhan-
plness' too much inscnsiblity creates
Ihere can bo no better help again st
Dor. 0' "o'Su-
| Nhere there Is mush pretenslon.
pretends. - 'oo"
immoderate pleasures shorten tba
existence more than any remedies pro.
long 1t. p''
we must laugh before we are hannv
icst we should die Without hayiny
laughed.
lie who cannot command hIs
.nougnts must not hope to command
his actions.
Lie who marrtes will gee much trou-
DC; but he who does not marry vii,
see no joys.
The mission OF religion is not tn oa-
stroy the natural affections. but to ro-
gulate them.
Things are 8 Unborn nd will be wbst
they are, whatever we think them or
wish them to be.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed
money, only reveal the poverty that
compelled the loan.
-, ruin Is the most powerful thing In
the world. even fiction onlv pleases no
oy It's resemblance to it.
People 90 not need to know mora
w%ot aIUt' +s,n rsdrtae, put rather to practice
Women are indebted to us for most
OF theif faults; we are Indebted to them
1or most OF our merits.
LOOK On slandercrs us direct enemies
homer, honesty, or nu fiSniiGGVV.s "i'llout
We live to learn, but death comes to
thousands ere they have m lsGereJ ! thn
alphabet of common sense.
1T is said that 1t Is about as hard to
hlue your love as ills to hido sneeza
neither or them can be repre- ,sed.
Hundreds OF young mon wlste honr
after hour thinking over what thev
might do If they only had the time.
The slightest sorrow for sin is sutli.
cient, If it produce amendmant. .n,
greatest is insuflloont, II i5 do not.
Have you discovered what variety
OF little things affect tho heart. ana
no" surely collectively thay gain itp
The bread OF life is love; the salt OF
Tie - work; the sweetness of life Ia
poetry, and the water OF life is faith.
The beginning offaith Is action and
nc only believes who struggles; not
he who merely thinks a question over.
Take true view Of life; be proud
chat You have work in the worl,l,s
busy path, and do it we'll and honora-
bly,.
The greater the difficulty, the more
glory IN surmOuntlng it; skilful pilots
gain their reputation from storms and
tempests.
lie that decelves his neiphbor with
lies, is unjust to him, and cheats him
out Of tho truths to which he has a ma.
Lural right.
Noble principles and generous oual.
tiles Of mind and heart canno. b,
claimed as the blrthright of any ono
nation or race.
There is not more repulsive snac.
taoio than all old man who will not
forsake tho world, which has alreadv
fOrsaken him.
lie who makes great fuss about do
ing good Will do very lit lc; he who
wishes to be notloed when doing good
Will not do it long.
look upon Incidence as sort Of
suicide, for the man is efficiently de-
stroyea, though tho appetite OF the
brute may survive.
TO rejoice In another's prosperity Is
to give content TO your own lot; to
mitigate another's grlet Is to alleviate
or dispel your own.
Neutrality In things good or evil is
both odious and prejudlclal; but In
matters Of an Indifferent nature, Is safe
and commendable.
None are 80 seldom found alone, and
arc 80 soon tired Of their own compa-
ny as those coxc0mbs who are on the
best terms with th emselves.
You must not splutter or be fussy
over your work. The fussy fellow oan
waste timo in his haste as we'll as tho
dawdler In his slow trifling.
Enjoy the blessings OF this day and
tho evils boar patiently and sweetly.
For this day IL ours, we are dead to
yesterday, and we are not born to NOR
row.
A weak mind sinks under prosperi.