The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-01
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Worth begets in small minds envy;
| III great souls, emulation. .... .a
The secret pleasure of a generous
act Is the great minds bribe.
He who labors for mankind has al
ready begun his Immortality.
Temper makes or mars more happi-
ness than any other quality.
A great deal or pride obscures or
Dlemlshes thousand good qualities,
Blushing is a suffuslon-least seen III
those who have the most occasion for
it..
Good nature and evenness of temper
VIII give you an easy companion for
life.
The misfortune of happiness Is sa-
tiety, and the happiness Of misfortune
Is hope.
Never relate your misfortune, and
never grleve oyer what you cannot
prevent.
Everybody is innocent in some corn
or of the mind, and has faith in some
thing.
He Is not only idle who does uothlng
but he is idle who might be betror en-
ployed.
We are more sociable, and get OIL
better with people, by the heart than
the intellect.
We cannot control the evil tongues
OF others, but good life enables us to
dlsplse them.
The youth who thinks the world his
oyster, and opens 1t forth with, finds
no pearl therein.
No place, no company, no ago, no
person, IL mptatiOn free, Let no man
boast that he is tree.
Fob be sharp GIFTED Is cOmmendable:
put to be WlCCiIy wicked Is TO 10 the
devil double service.
Poverty often deprives man of all
spirit and virtue. 1t is hard for IN
empty bag to stand upright,
circumstances form the character;
put, llkc petrlfying matters, they har-
den while they form.
10 be able to bear provocatfon is an
argnment Of great wisdom; and to for
give iC, of great mind.
lftho disposition is good, the acts
VIII oe so TOO, though man may not
be aOle to do as he desires.
II you wish for care, perploxlty and
misery, be selfish in all things; this Is
the short road to trouble.
When one has no design but to speak
plain truth, he may say great deal in
very narrow compass.
IA man can be happy and contented
IN his own company, he will generally
DC good company fo- others.
The first ingredient in conversation
ls truth, the next good sense, tho third
good hnmor, and the fourth wit.
Sweet Is the brea tn Of praise when
given by those whose own high merit
claims the praise they give.
This world Is not our rest; wo have
here no continuing city. Let us seek
tn; "clty that hath foundations.'
Natnre makes us poor when we want
necessaries, but custom gives tho nama
OF poverty to the want OF s'lperlluitios.
Tile time tor reasoning Is before we
nave approached near enough to the
forbidden fruit to look at It and adj
mire.
The way to conquer mon Is by their
business; catch but the ruling folble
of their hearts, and all their boasred
virtues shrink before you.
Those who, without knowing us,
think or speak evil of us, do US no
harm, It's not us they attack, but the
phantom of their own Imagination.
1t Is well to have faith in every
thing, but you want to carefully ex-
anime the Inside OF O chestnut before
you trust altogether TO appearances.
religious life is not a thing that
spends itself like u bright bubble on
the rivers surface. 1t iS rather like
the river itself, which wldens continu-
ally, and Is never so broad or deep us
where it rolls into the ocean of eter-
nifty.
Man often weeps in his sleep. When
he aWakcs he scarce remembers that
he has shed tears. SO regard life. In
the second, thou W;lt no lon ger know
that thou hast Wept lnlthe tirst.,-Ieau-
Paul. .
Induction bring the right path 70
knowledge, every man, whether he
knows 1t or not, uses induction, more
or less, by the mere fact of his having
a human reason, and knowing anything
at all. !.
What strange desperate notion 1t Is
Of men, when they have erred, that
things are at the worst, that nothing
can be- dono to rescue theml whereas
Judas lscarlot might have done some-
thing hotter than hang himse)f.
This evil fortune which attends ex.
Lraordinary men hath ben imputed to
uAfoAo CauSCS CIldG nCCu not DC set
down when 80 obvious a ore occurs,
That when great genius appears the
ounces are all in conspiracy against
him.
The shortest and surest way to live
with honor In the world Is to be in re-
allty what we would appear to be; and,
II we observe, we shall tiud that ali
human virtues increase and strengthen
themselves by the practice and expert
ence of them.
The life of every man Is as the well.
spring of stream, whose small bogIn-
nings are indeed plain to all, but whose
course and destination, as It wind,
through the cxpanses Of infinite years,
only the Onniscient can discern.
doubtless good women have, ore
this, married bad mon from tho very
best of motives. But few of us are yn-
geiic enough to dare such frlghItul
odds; tow of us are strong enough to
save drowning men. We arc far moro
likely 10 drown with them,
Nature Is very good to all her child