Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-01
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Piety Is good thing to have. but
Christian charity is very much better.
Never excuse wrong action bY saw
ing some one else does the same thing.
II evil be said of thee, and it is true
correct it; if it be lie, laugh at it.
Who never walks save where he sees
mems tracks, makes no discoveries.
Avoid slander as you would a scor-
piOn.
Activity may commit some injuries
but Incidence is sure to do no good.
We owe large part of our happiness
to our mistakes.
He lis wise who never acts without rea
son, and never against 1t.
To win, work and wait-but work q
good deal more than you wait.
What is called impudence is generally
either ignorance or forgetfulness.
have lived TO thank God that all nv
prayers have not been answered.
We must learn to comprehend the es-
sence OF art from admiration of excel
lence.
Extreme self-love will set a mans
house on fire, though it were but to
roast their eggs.
Let friendship cross gently to a height:
if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out
of breath.
Love Is more pleasing than matri-
mony, just as romance is more entertain
ing than history.
The vanity of human life is like q
river, constantly passing away, and yet
constantly coming on.
Eloquence is the power to translate q
truth into language perfectly intelligiblO
to the person to whom you speak.
There are some persons on whom their
faults sit well, and others who are made
ungraceful by their good qualities.
The sphere of Christian duty is not
there nor yonder, but here, just where
you are.
Curiosity is a thing that makes us
look over other peoples affairs and over
look our own.
How absurd to be afraid of death when
we are In the habit of rehearsing it every
night.
God is great, and therefore he will be
sought he is good, therefore he will be
found.
1t is one of the worst errors to suppose
that there is any other path of safety ex-
cept that of duty.
All nature is a vast symbolism every
material fact has sheathed within it a
spiritual truth.
Adversely is the trial of prinr1ple
Without it man hardly knows -s-4rether
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Don't be anxious until you are COM
PEELED to be; many man worries about
ghost that never appears.
One year of noble and generous life
is worth century of cowardly years, and
sef-cares and over-solicitude.
Whoever entertains you with the
faults of others, designs to serve you in
a similar manner.
Seeking and blundering are so far
good that it is by seeking and blunder-
ing that we learn.
We hope to grow old, yet we fear old
age that is, we are willing to live and
afraid to die.
Religion is good for nothing one day
in the week, unless 1t is also good for all
the seven days.
Opportunities are very sensitive
things if you slight them on their first
visit, you seldom see them again.
Excess of ceremoney was always the
companion of weak minds it is plant
that will never grow in strong soil.
He who has no taste for order will he
often wrong in his judgment and seldom
considerate or conscientious in his ac-
tions.
When you are sick it comes easy to
promise all sorts of reformation, and
when you recover it is easy to forget
them.
The bright genius is ready to be so
forward as often betrays him into great
errors in Judgment without continual
bride on the tongue.
'Faith never forget it is faith, and
faith only, that swings wide open the
door leading into the Gospel treasure
house of plenty"
Ii you would find great many faults,
be on thel ooh-out; but if you find them
in unlimited quantities, be on the look
in.
Good nature adorns every perfection a
man is master of, and terows veil over
every blemish which would otherwise
prevail.
A woman of sense is not ashamed of
poverty, nor of confessing tot out her
taste induces her to keep the marks of
it out of sight.
Persons dispirited by bad omens
sometimes prepare the way for civil for
tune for confidence in success is great
means of ensuring it.
Character is like money when you've
got great deal you may risk some, for
if you lose it. folks still believe you've
plenty to spare.
To think kindly one of another is
good, to speak kindly one of another is
better, but to act kindly one towards
another is best of all.
AS few roads are SO rough as those
that have just been mended, so few sin
ners are so intolerant as those that have
Just turned saints.
Selfishness though refined, is still but
selfshness, and refinement ought never
to interfere with doing good in the world
as it exists.
Conceit is an assumption which is to I
Nature what paint is to beauty-not
only needless, but a detriment to that
which is meant to improve.