The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-19
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The truly great man is as apt to for
give as his power Is able to revenge.
He who knows but one thing, or one
set OF things, cannOG be wise man.
"A word to the wise Is always suffl-
Gent, put the trouble is 80 few are
wise.
10 be popular Is to be Endorsed IN
the to-day and forgotten In the to NOR
row.
Study books to know how things
ought to be; study men to know how
things are.
The whisper Of beautiful woman
can be heard farther than the loudest
yell Of duty.
IL you ould never have an evil deed
spoken Of in connection with YOU,
don't do ono.
| In memory's mellowed light, we be-
| hold not the thorns; we see only the
beautiful flowers.
man too busy to take care Of his
health is like mechanic too busy to
take care of his tools.
a man that keeps riches and enjoys
them :, Is like an ass that carries
goid a.. eats thistles.
When man speaks the truth you
may count pretty surely that he pos
oco3cS LlOSG OCnec virtues.
1t is a great misfortune not to have
enough wit to speak we'll or not enough
Judgment to keep silent.
Iru" friends visit us in prosperity
only when Invited, but in adyersitv
they come without invitatio
"Look before yon leap!" But not
always, for often when one has taken
time to look 1t Is too late to leap.
An old bachelor Is traveller OH
ltfo's railroad, who has entirely failed
to make the proper connections.
1t Is always better to kcap out Of q
quarrel than to make iJ up ever so ami.
caoly attor you have got into one.
In the eye Of that Supreme Being to
Wn0m our internal frame Is unuoy-
cred, dispositions hold tho place of ac-
tons.
When is it dangerous to 90 to
church? When the Organist is drown
Ing the choir aud great gun of the
pulpit Is firing away ut the congrega-
ton.
When you do not need help from
any one then any one Will hel D you;
and when you do need help the world
IS somehow always looking the other
way.
No man ought to complain If tho
world measures him as he measures
others. TO measure one with his own
yardstick may be hard, but it Is also
| lair.
| We should often have reason to bo
ashamed Of our most brilliant actions,
If the world could SEQ the motives from
which they spring.
| Motives are better than actions. Men
DRIFT Into crime. Oieyil they do moro
than they contemplate, and of good
they contemplate ,horo than they d.
| A mans fortune should be the rule
for sparing anu spending. ExIrava-
gancc may be supporte |, not lstitlod,
by aili uence.
Ago is beautiful and wonderfully at
LfaotlVo when In youth tho soul WAS
cnnverSant with truth. Its glorles
abide in old age.
Mental pleasures never clOy; unlike
those OF the body, they are Increased
by repetition, approved by reflection,
AND strengthened by onjoymonr.
A child thinks the stars bio som on
the trees; when he climbs to the tree
top, he tancies they cluster on the
splrc; he finds, to reach them, he must
leave the earth and go to heaven.
| Blessed IS the man who has found
his work; let him ask no other bless
edness. Know thy work, and do it;
and work at 1t like Hercules. Ono
monster there is In the world, the idle
man.
The wise ones say there is nothing
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 tho ad-
age,
The truest help which one can rem
der to man, who has any of the ine-
vitable burdens Of life to carry, ls not
to take his burden off, but to call out
his best strength that ne ma v be able
to bear 1t.
That was a bright little boy who
spelled out the words OF tho text,
pray Without ceasing," "and that con-
oiuded not to show 1t TO the minister
because he thought his prayers were
long enough already.
Man Is dupable animal. Quacks in
medicine, quacks in religion, and
quacks in politics know this, and aot
upon that knowledge. There IL scar
ccly any one who may not, like a trout
Do taken by tickling.
All men and women are, as Shaks-
pcale has said of them, merely players
when we see them upon the stage of
the world thut is when they are seen
anywhere except in the freedom and
undressed intimacy OF privaSe life.
The history Of the world teaches no
lessen with more Impressive solemnity
than thus: that The only safeguard OF u
great INTELLECT Ia pure heart; that
evil no sooner takes possession OF the
hearG than folly commences the con-
quest OF the mind.
1t Is q secret, we'll known to all
great men, that, by comforting an OBJ
legation they do not always procure a
friend, but are certain Of creating
many enemies.
There Is a signature of wisdom aud
power impressed upon the works OF
Gou, winch evidently disting lishes
Them IRON the feeble limitations of
men. Not only tho spiendor Of Lhe sun
but the glimmerlng light Of Ghe glow
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