The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-02
FOOD FOR THOUGHT. F.

are how less what we may be
When you have III opportunity to
praise, do it with all your heart.
When you are forced to blame, appear,
Mt least, to do it with reluctance.
! Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words
cost Zacharias forty weeks silence.
Never excuse wrong action by sny-
ing some one else does the same thing.
Of all the ruins Of the world, the ruin
, OF n man is the saddest to contemplate.
Power does not consist in striking
strongly or often, but in striking justly.
| k.The gout may be said to be beacon
on the rock of luxury to warn us against
! it.
10 be wise upon delibcration, and not
, upon present occasion, il no great mat
! ter. =.
| Education is not virtue of itself, and !
! Is not passport to fame and true great
ness.
There is q right and wrong way of
rubbing mans mind rs we'll rs n cats
back
There is IL way that seemcth right to
man, but the end thereof is the way of
death.
Never Judge by appearances A.
secdy coat may cover heart in full
bloom.
The desire of being pitied or admired
is probably the true reason of our conf
dence
1t is a noble species of revenge to have
the power Of retaliation and not to axer-
else it.
Considering ones own weakness is
great help to gentleness in dealing with
Others
The most brilliant qualities become :
! useless when not sustained by force of
character.
Dress often indicates only fool but
address is the finest. ornament of a cour-
teous man.
Tho memory of some persons is no
thing but row of hooks to hang up
grudges on.
Let him who regrets the loss of time
make proper use of that which is to come
in the future.
1t is no vanity for man to pride him 4
self on what he has honestly got andf
prudently uses. "
Ideas generate Ideas like a potato,
which, cut in pieces, reproduces itself in
a multiplied form.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those
things living which are desired to be
done when dying.
A weak mind is like a microscope. It
magnifies small things, but cannot re-
ccive large ones.
Genius is nothing more than the facul-
ty of laboring to advantage, with a
sprinkling of luck. -.
Be happy if you can but do not despise
| nyyyI,n Nf1
not their troubles.
All that nature has prescribed must be
good; and rs death is natural to us it is
absurdity to fear it,
Webster once said The most import
ant thought ever had was my personal
responsibility to God.
1t takes but u moment to cloud lovely
morning, md n slight misdeed to mar
the happiness of a life.
Most men keep OH hand large assort-
ment of evils, while their stock of excel
lencies is ruinously low.
Philosophers hold it as sacred truth,
that he who would be happy, must place
n full value Oh his time
There is only one objection to we'll
meaning people-that is, they have not
time for "well-doing."
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character more vividly than in his man
ner Of portraying anothcr's.
There is no ranker species of ill
breeding than speaking of any religion
sarcastically, or with contempt.
The great thinker is seldom a disput-
ant. He answers other mems arguments
by stating the truth as he sees it.
All our actions take their lines from
the complexion of the heart. as land
scapes their variety from the light.
Some there are who gaze intently into
the well of truth, but only in hope of
seeing their own image reflected there.
There are men in tho world who re-
semblc the one of whom Jerrold said he
was like n pin, only Ire had head and
no point
The dishonest man gives no more light
to the world than tallow candle, and
when he dies he leaves rs bad nm odor
behind him.
Venture not into the company of those
that are infected with the plague, no,
though thou think thyself guarded with
an antidote.
No error is more fatal than that of
those who think that virtue has no other
reward, because they have heard that
she is her own.
How sad thing is time whether it
goes or comes and how correct was the
saint who said: "Let:us throw our hearts
into eternity"
TO pronounce a man happy merely
because he is rich, is just as absurd as
to call a man healthy merely because he
has enough to eat.
No man ought to complain if the world
measures him rs he measures others To
measure one with his yardstick may be
hard, but it is fair.
1t is said that love conquers oil things,
but jumping toothache that knows its
business and strictly attends to it can
make q man forget that he ever loved at
MI.
AS when we are in prosperity we are
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