The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-08
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malicious one for ever.
A juueious silence is better than
truth spoken with charity.
Nature is the master Of talent, gent
US ls the master Of nature.
Have a care of whom you talk, to
whom, and what, and where.
Make not thy friend too cheap to
thee, nor thyself to thy friend.
An id le reason lessons tho weight OF
the good ones you gave before.
| What is becoming Is honorable, and
what Is honorable Is becoming.
Earnestness of purpose oan spring
only from strong convictions.
There oan be no true thankfulness
where there is no beneyolence.
You should forgive many things in
others, but nothing in yourself.
The good which you do may not be
lost, though it may be forgotten.
He that catches more than belongs to
him, deserves to lose what he has.
The more we help others to bear their
burdens, tho lighter will be our own.
The trouble with many communities
Is. that their dead men refuse to be
buried.
Man believes that to be lie which
contraulcts tho testimony of his own
ignorance.
a friend cannot be known in pros
perity, and an enemy cannot be hid In
| adversely.
1t Is good in a fever, and much better
In anger, to have the tongue kept clean
and smooth,
Never send your guest who Is aocus-
toned to warm room, into cold,
damp bed TO sleep.
Taking a penny that does not belong
to one removes the barrier between In
tcgrity and rascallty.
Patience on monument Is all we'll
enough for poets, but doctors plant
their patients beneath.
Meyer fail to offer the easiest aud
best scat In the room to an invalid, an
elderly person or lady.
Never neglect to perform the oom-
mission which tho friend lntrusted to
you. You must not forget.
The loud tones in which some per-
sons appeal to reason imply thnt reas.
on is great distance from them.
The happiness of tho tender heart is
| increased by what it can take away
from the wretchedness of others.
intellectual pride is less outraged by
the obscurities of faith than by the au-
! thority with which 1t is clothed.
Let every one sweep the drift from
his own door and not busy himself
about tho frost on his neighbours tiles.
Christianity is the eloment in mod
ern olviliZ alton that secures 1t against
the Vicissitude5 Of another ciVlli2a-
tion,
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giving out wholesome fragrance; re-
verie Is the same tlowor when running
to suod.
1t Is safer to affront some people than
to obligc thom, for the better man
deserves the worse they will speak Of
him.
We may dwell so exclusively on tho
many forms Of right-doing rs to shut
from view the presence Of goodness
Itself.
Right habit ls like the ohanncl, which
dictates the course In which the river
shall flow, and which grows deeper
and deeper with each year.
A man need only correct himself
with the samo rigor that he apprehends
others, and excuse others with thu
same indulgence that he shows to him.
self.
OF Trcbonius, Tullius said: "I am
glad he whom l must have loved from
duty, whatever he had been, Ia such as
can love from luclinatiOn.'
Never put much confidence In suoh
as put no confidence in others. A man
prone to suspect evil ls mostly looking
out for what he secs In himself.
lntamy Is whore it Is received. If
thou art a mud wall, it will stiok; if
marble, 1t will rebound. II thou storm
at 1t, IL Is thine; If thou cOntcmn 1t,
it is his.
Handsome people usually are 80 fan.
tasLically ploased with themselves, that
If they do not kill at first siglt, az the
phra: Is, n second interview deprives
them Of all their power.
Great vices arc the proper objects OF
our dotestntiOn-smaller faults OF our
pity but atfecLatiOn appears to be tho
only true source of the Ridiculous.
No man has come to true greatnes,
who has not felt In some degree that
his llfe belongs to his race, and that
what God gives him he gives him for
mGnkind.
The very heart and root of sin is an
indapendent and solhsh spirit. We
erect the idol solf, and not only wish
Others to worship 1t, but we worship it
ourselves.
Universal love ls like glove with.
out fingers, which fits all hands alike,
and none closely; but true affection ls
like glove with tingers, which ITS
ono hand only, and hIs close to that
one,
IL Is when our budding hopes are
nippod beyond recovery by some rough
wind that wo are most disposed to PIC
ture to ourselves what flowers they
mighb have borne had they ilourished.
The great sorrows of life are either
a curse or blessing to us. Even tho
open grave may DO II doorway into tho
heaven OF larger faith or tho open
way Into a life Of solemn despail.
The intellect of man sits vislbly en-"
throned upon his forehead and in his
eye, and the heart Of man Is written
upon his cOuntenance. But the soul
reveals itself IN tho volco only, as God
revealed himself to tho prophets OF cid
In tho af1l1 smui voira fr,In tha .,nrn.