Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-11-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Wrinkles are the tomb of love.

Great takers discharge too fast to
take aim.
Men should be tried before they are
trusted.
Little by little great things are accom-
plished.
Diseases are often the interest paid for
pleasure.
Faith will trust God where it cannot
trace him.
Surely, some peoples ways are past
finding out.
While God renews our leases we
should renew our rent.
The follies of youth furnish food for
repentance in old age.
Some men and women talk by the
yard and think by the inch.
He who can plant courage in human
ouI is the best physician.
If tradesmen make their weights light
er, they make their sins heavier.
The man who fails in business but
continues to live in luxury is thief.
Listen to conscience more than to in
tellect.
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do may be the discipline of the doing.
The things which we enjoy are pass
ing and we are passing who enjoy them.
To win, work, and wait-but work q
good deal more than you wait.
The best throw with the dice is to
throw them away.
Varieties of mere nothings give more
pleasure than uniformity of something.
The world is comedy to those who
think, tragedy to those who feel.
The reproaches of enemies should
quicken us to duty, and not keep us from
it.
We carry our neighbors' crimes in
sight and throw our own over our
shoulders.
What we charitably forgive viii be
recompensed as well as what we CHART
ably give.
Those who are disposed to be uneasy
will never want something to be uneasy
about.
The greatest sources of happiness and
usefulness are open to rich and poor
alike.
Bodily labor alleviates the pain of the
mind. Hence arises the happiness of
the poor.
Temptations come to us from our own
bosom mainly. That is the great maga-
zine of temptations.
l have seldom known any one who de-
serted truth In trihes that could be
trusted in matters of importance.
Doubt al Ways sees huge obstacles in
the way of accomplishing anything
nay, the doubt itself is the obstacle.
The highest elements of character, of
power and of dignity lie within reach of
the lowest and the-poorest.
The government Of a nation demands
certain harmony like music, and GER
tain proportions like architecture.
Commending a right thing is a cheap
substitute for doing it, and with this we
are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
Never couRt on the favor of the rich
by fattezing either their vanities or
vices.
The best penance we can do for envy
ing anOther's merits is to endeavor to
surpass them.
Politics is a science which no one be-
lievss those who differ from him uuder-
stand.
AS ravenous birds are the quickest
sighted, so are the worst people the
greatest fault-fnders.
There is no one study that is not capa-
ble of delghting us after little apph-
cation to it.
Men are never so ridiculous for the
qualities they have as for those they
affect to have.
BashfuIness may sometimes exclude
pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue
to sorrow or remorse.
If there is any great and good thing in
store for you, it will not come at the
first or second call.
The height of ability consists in
thorough knowledge of the real value of
things, and of the genius of the age we
1--we in.
Instead of being content to live so as
to escaps blame, the Christian is requir-
ed 10 live so as TO prove q means OF
blessing.
One of the most effectual ways of
pleasing and of making ones self loved
is to be cheerful JOY softens more
hearts than tears.
Life is casket, not precious in itself,
but valuable in proportion to what for
tuxe, or industry, or virtue has placed
within it.
Hope is mans birthright, which, after
all his Establishments, delusions and
mockeries, never maketh him ashamed
to hope on, hope ever.
They don't ring bells to let the peo-
pie know when the theatre or circus
open, and yet nobody gets there too
| late.
The universal heart of man blesses
flowers. He has wreathed them around
the cradle, the marriage altar, and the
| tomb.
Those are meek gentlefolks who mask
their faults to others and to themselves;
the true know them perfectly and ac-
knowledge them.
Good temper is like a sunny day it
sheds brightness over everything it
is the sweetener of toll and the soOther
of disquietude.
Simplicity of manner is the last at
tainment. Men are very long afraid of
being natural, from the dread of being
taken for ordinary.
Wounds and hardships provoke our
courage, and when our fortunes are at
the lowest, our wits and minds are COM
monty at the best.