The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-30
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Worry is rust upon the blade. It is
not the revolution that destroys the ma
chinery, but the friction.
1t may be doubted whether there ever
was greatness of character which had
not been nurtured in the school of great
ailliction.
1t akes ono less time to get over ones
own misfortune than to be reconciled to
noighbor's good fortune.
The proper way of increasing the love
we boar our native country is to reside
some time in foreign one.
In ourselves, rather than in material
nature, lie the true source and life of
the beautiful
The power to do great things gener- .
arises from the Willingness to do
III things.
No one can have failed to observe the
power of true life upon all with whom
it comes i'll contact.
Do not allow idlencss to deceive you,
tor while you give it to-day it steals
from you tomorrow.
Hopo is like the sun, which rs we
journey toward it, casts the shadow Of
our burden bohind us.
Principles are very important, but
they need to be adorned by the grace to
ronder them attractive.
No grander thing can n man do than
to give helping hand to young man
who has been discouraged.
There nre degrees of badness. Riv-
arol once said of II criminal that he
would "make a stain Oh mud"
What n divine religion might be found
out if charity were really made the prin-
ciplc of it, instead of faith.
What arc the aims which nre ut the
same time duties ? They are the per-
tecting of ourselves, the happiness of
others.
No better advice could be given al
aspirnnt than the terse little counsel of
Emerson eff you want success, suc-
ceed."
A great step has been gained when
one has high standard for himself, and
measures himself OH that ideal standard.
TO cover bad life and its fruit tho
evil strive to divert attention from them
selves by laying evil ut the door Of the
innocent.
When bad mon combine the good
must associate, else they will fall, one
by one, an llnpiticd sacrifice, in con-
temptiblo struggle.
DR.. johnson once, speaking Of quar-
relsome fellow, said: elf he hnd two
ideas in his head they would fall out with
each other"
We should often have reason to be
ashamed of our most brilliant actions.
if the world could see the motives from
which they spring.
Pride is like the beautiful acacia that
lifts its hcnd proudly above its neighbo1-
ing plants, forgetting thnt it, too, like
them, has its root in the dirt.
When We feel strong desire to thrust
our advice upon others, it is usually be-
cause we suspect their weakness but
we ought rather to suspect our own.
Thoro is no better test of purity and
true goodness than reluctance to think
evil of ones neighbor, and absolute in
capacity to believe MI evil report about
good men.
Learning, like money, may be Of so
base coin as to be utterly void of use;
or, if sterling, may require good man
agemcnt to make it serve the purpose Of
sense or happiness.
The young fancy that their follies arc
mistaken by tho old for happiness; and
the old fancy that their gravity is mis-
"Hh'h ~ OiS .Souiit1 lol WlStlOul.
A mans profundity may keep him
from opening on n first interview, and
his caution on q second but it is natu-
ral to suspect his emptiness, if he oar
rios on his reserve to n third.
TO be heroic in great deeds is not so
prniscworthy after All rs to be noble in
things That are small Tho former may
tell Of ambition, while the latter are the
expressions of character.
Manly delicacy is rs necessary in the
family life rs manly rectitude; and
womanly tact as womanly virtue. There
~ as much wrecked happiness from tho
absence of one as the other.
Aim high. You may not touch the
mark, but by high aim you will como
nearer to it than by not trying ut all.
Then by making the effort many persons
have come nearer than they ut first anti
cipatcd.
OF MI tho follies which men are apt
to fall into, to the disturbance of others
and lcssening of themselves, there IL
mono more intolernble than continued
cgotism, and perpetual inclination to
self panegyric.
The early years of childhood are the
stOrehouso in which arc boarded tho i'm
pressions that last through life in them
are gathered the influences that are to be
ineflaceable in tho after career. We
novcr forget tho feelings we then expe-
ricnced--the tones, the gestures the
faces of those we loved, or from whom
we shrank, with the passionate intensity
of our fresh hearts.
Better be able to do one thing we'll
than q half dozen imperfectly. There
is true economy of time in it for the
ono thing well learned and thoroughly
mastered will be kept up for pleasure,
and room will be made for the next ac-
QUESTION, while the time consumed in
getting only q smattoring Of many things
is utterly lost when they are given up in
disgust Mt their practical inefficiency.
There are some unhappy people who
arc never cheerful--who are always un-
der n clhud. Now, we may be born
under n cloud. We may be born with a
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