The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-07-12
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

lying by slight provocations.
The man who feels certain that he will
not succeed is seldom mistaken.
He who is ashamed Of his poverty will
surely be arrogant Of his wealth.
Humility is the safest foundation to
build any kind of fsuperstructure OH.
Oaths are straws, mems faiths are
wafer cakes, and holdfast is the only
dog.
He who has filed the measure of his
days has only learned how to begin to
live.
Some men seem constantly turning al
internal grindstone to keep their anger
sharp.
Many lave blown into the trump of
fame, but few have filled it SO that it
sounded. -
r The boy whose highest ambition it is
to equal his father, seldom amounts to
anything. 49,.
Most of tho rmhappiness in this life
comes from not knowing the true value
Of things.
1t takes two to. make a quarrel and
two to keep it going; it only needs ono
to end it. va
1t is not the many oaths that mako
the truth, but the plain single VOW that
| is vowed true.
Let no man presume to give good ad-
vice to. others that has not first given
good counsel to himself.
= No one believes that he 9th mystify
his mind but every orc imagines that
he can gull his conscience.
How. is it possible to expect that man.
kind will take advice when they will not
SO much rs take warming?
Youth is the spring for planting the
seed OF knowledge; age the autumn for
watching them ripen into wisdom.
Good qualities are the substantial
riches of the mind but it is good breed
ing that sets them off to advantage.
The happiest lot for n. man, rs far as
birth is concerned, is TINT it should give
him but little occasion to think much
about it. ...'
Bad habits are the thistles of the
heart, and every indulgence of them is
seed from which will spring new crop
Of weeds.
A lie will die from neglect sooner than
i'll any other way. The only reason why
some lies grow so large is that everybody
pets and feeds them.
Childhood often holds Il truth with its
feeble fingers, which tile grasp of man.
! hood cannot retain, which it is the pride
| OF utmost nge to recover.
A man who does manly work in the
world is respected, but he who trihes
away his time with toys receives the
worlds contemptuous smile:
The patriot IL he who obeys his co,ln-
try's laws, and if they nrc oppressive and
unjust strives earnestly and within the
proper limits to rectify them. .,
Old age is the night of life, M night il
the old age of the day. Still, nj ght il
full of magnificcnce, and, for many, it
| is more brilliant than the day.
Falsehood, like poison, will generally
be rejected when administered alone, but
when blended with wholesome ingredi-
| cnts mny be swallowed unperceived.
Worldly faces never look so worldly
MS ut II funeral. They have the same
effect of grating incongruity ~ the sound
of n coarse voice breaking the stiffness
of night
Truth, they say, lies at the bottom Of
well. That is reason enough why 50
few OF us are acquainted with her. Few
like to cntrusp, themselves to the bucket
and windlass. 'no..,
Surely that rlhching whius. comes
from the soul most works on the s>ul.
The divinity of charity Consists in re-
lieving mans needs before they arc
forced upon us.
There is among men such intense af-
fcctntion that they often boast of defects
which they have not, more willingly
than of qualities which they have.-
| GEORGE SAND.
The wise ones say TINT nothing is so
hard to bear as prosperity but most
men would like to engage in some hard
work of that description, just to have
practical illustration Of the adage.
The last, best fruit, which comes Into
to perfection, even in the kindliest soul,
is tenderness toward tho hard, forbear-
ance toward the unforbearing, warmth
of heart toward the misnnthropicp
Be not diverted from your duty by
any idle reflections the silly world may
make upon You, for their censrres are
not in your power, and consequently
should not be any part of your concern.
Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother,
grandmothcr-in those six words lio
What the human heprt contains of the
sweetest, the most ccstatic, the most
sacred, the purcst md the most inefla-
BILE.
You find yourself refreshed by the
presence Of cheerful persons. Why not
make earnest effort to confer that pleas
ure on others? You will find half the
battle is gained if you never say any
thing gloomy
Unselfsh and noble acts are the most
radiant cpochs in the biography of souls.
| Whom wrO,,0ht in norlinat vOufh they lie
in the memory of age like coral islands,
green md sunny, amidst the melancholy
waste of occnn.
An injury unanswered in time grows
weary of itself and dies away in an in
voluntary remorse. In bad dispositions,
capable of no restraint but fear, it has q
! different effect-the silent digestion of
ono wrong provokes a second.