The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-06

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Dur taste declines with our merit


opinions, form our true honor.
have lived to thank God that all nv
prayers have not been answered.
He who thinks his place below him
will certainly be below his place.
The sympathy of sorrow is stronger
than the sympathy of prosperity.
There are some silent people who arc
more interesting than the best takers.
Gratitude is the music of the heart
when its chords are swept by kindness.
Never excuse wrong action by say
ing some one else does the same thing.
Before you set about asking Gods
blessing, make sure that you have earned
it.
He that hos no inclination to learn
more, will be very apt to think he knows
enough.
The beam of the benevolent eye Civ
eth value to the bounty which the hand
disperses.
Be brief; for it is as with sunbeams-
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.
The charities that soothe, heal, and
| bless, lio scattered Mt the feet of men
like flowers.
Always there is life while life lasts.
which, rightly divined, implies q divine
| satisfaction.
Had we not faults of our own. we
| should not take 80 much pleasure to note
them i'll others.
If you would be capable, cultivate
your mind; if you would be loved, cult
vate your hcnrt
Never show that you suspect, nor &c
cusc till you are sure TINT your suspicion
was well founded.
No liberal man would imputc charge
OF unsteatliness to another for having
changed his opinion.
Hope is like tho sun, which. as we
journey toward 1t, casts the shadow of
our burden behind us.
Sclf-prosorvation is the first ]aw of
nature, but too many in thia world act
as If it was the only one.
AS an archer makes straight his arrow.
SO a wise man makes straight his thought,
which is difficult to turn.
If there is any person to whom You
feel dislike, that is the person of whom
you ought never to speak.
We Judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of doing, while others Judge us
by what we have already done.
A man who is always snecring at wo-
man, is genernliy'a coarse prOhigate, or
coarse bigot, no matter which.
Evory man has three charactcrs-that
which he exhibits, that which he has,
and that which he thinks he has.
1t is always better to keep out of Il
quarrel than to make it up ever 40 ami
cnbly after You have gone into one.
Happiness is like sunbeam, which
the least shadow intcrcepts, while ad-
versity is often as the rain Of Spring.
The bread of life is love the salt of
life is work the sweetness of life is
poetry, and the water of life is faith.
No man has ever yet reached to per-
lection but no man has ever been ren-
dered any the worse by striving after it.
Beware of him that is slow to anger ;
anger, when it is long in coming, is
stronger when it comes, and longer
kept.
If the ages of human beings were to
be rcckoncd only by hours and days we'll
spent, most Of us would be in our in
fancy.
Men are guided less by conscience
than by glory ; and yet the shortest
way to glory is to be guided by con-
science.
An Eastern proverb says, /" He is
miserable once who meets with i'll
fortune but twice who fears it before it
cOmos."
The happicst lot for man, rs far rs
birth is concerned, il that it should give
him but little occasion to think much
about it,
The greater the difficulty, tho moro
glory in surmounting it; skilful pilots
gain their reputation from storms and
tempests.
Use and assert your own reason, ro-
fleet, examine and analyze every thing,
in order to form n sound and mature
Judgment.
1t is no great thing to be humble when
you are brought low but to be humble
when you arc praised is n great and rare
attainment.
The excessive pleasure we find in
talking of ourselves ought to mako us
apprehensivo that it gives but little to
our auditors.
TO pronounce man happy merely
because no is rioh, is just us absurd as
to call man healthy merely because ho
mas enough TO eat.
A blemish may be taken out of dia-
mond by careful polishing; but, if your
words have the least blemish, there is
no way to efface it.
Mover adopt the opinions of my books
you may read, nor of any company you
may keep, without examining whether
they are just or not
If we could read the secret history OF
our enemies, we should find in each
mans life, sorrow and suffering enough
to disarm all hostility
It does not matter much from what
round of the ladder q man starts because
if he keeps good lookout, and his feet
ready, he is sure to rise.
1t was johnson who said; "The
diminutive chains of habit are seldom
heavy enough to be felt until they are
too strong to be broken"
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