The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-03-28
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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The waves Of happiness, like those Of
light, are colorless when unbrolsen, ..a-s.
knowledge of the world ia dearly
bought at the price of moral purity.
Genius at first is nothing more than
great capacity for receiving discipline.
Ii you wish to be really happy take a
good deal OF outdoor exercise, and never
run in debt.
There is nothing moro necessary than
TO know how to bear the tedious mo-
ments of life,
1t you assume the garb of fool arc
you very sure that you have not natur-
al right to it2
1t ls one thing to have house to live
in, and quite another thing to have
home to live in.
We do not Judge men by what they
| are in themselves. but by what they are
relatively to us.
Nature never sends q great man into
the world without contdlng the secret
to another soul.
The light of true friendship is like
the light Of phosphorus-seen plainest
when all around is dark.
Many persons entertain falso views Of
real life, who yet have the justest per-
'oeptions Of human nature.
Stillest streams oft water fairest
meadows, and the bird that Hutters
least is longest OH the wing.
AS sad dreams betoken glad future.
80 may it be with the 80 often torment
ing dream OF life when it is over.
A writer who attemps to live on the
manufacture of his imagination is con-
tlnuously coquetting with starvation.
In life it is difficult to say who do you
the most mischief--enemies with tho
worst Intentions, or friends with tho
best.
Good breeding is benevolenoe in
TRIES, or the preference of others to
ourselves in the little daily occurrences
of life.
knowledge is said to be sorrow. If
this be true there are some mon in tho
community who must be supremely
happy.
It is curious fact that no man in
the world wants to be rich; he ouly asks
for enough, and surely that is reason
| able request.
1t is hard to personate and act Il part
long, for where truth is not at the bot
ccohA cohA h''uho "AAA naTrJo Do oIAuCaSoi1llB
ifseff one time 81 another. '' ""+"'''
| There is no brighter moment in the
| life of a young lady of ton than when
the happy discovery is made that she
can at last balance pair of eye glasses
on her nose without squirting.
It has been we'll said that no man
ever sank under the burden Of the day.
It is when to-morrow's burden is added
to the burden of to-day that the weight
Is moro than a man can bear.
In the last article penned by DR.. Hol-
land he said he believed it to be de-
monstrably true that of all the adyan-
tages which come to any young man
that of poverty is the greatest.
The soul knows what Justice is; and
in those who approve, and in those who
resist, truth creates Conscience. Those
who resist, ore irritated; those who
obey, grow strong within themselves.
If you want knowledge, you must toll
for it. if food, you must toll for it Toll
is the law. Pleasure comes through
toll, and not by self.indulgence and in
dolence. When one gets to love work,
his life is happy one.
Too many are IN the habit of looking
away from the blessings they have to
think of those they have not. They
engrave their deprivations and sorrows
on the rock, but write their blessings on
the sand or the waves.
'.The virtue of Pagaaism was strength;
the virtue Of Christianity is obedience"
as obedience is simply conformity to
the law of life, it is the condition Of in
creasing strength, while strength, un-
consecrated to service soon turns to
weakness.
Tho man who by tho force OF his
ability and character acquires material
possessions has wealth in it's two-fold
sense. If he also employs that which
he gains for purposes of good and not
evil for himself and for others, he re-
alises the true union between wealth
and well-being.
A German told the truth by accident
on n certain occasion, and it is barely
possible that we might repeat his words.
''You go right along" he said, "until
then after while you will come to
house with great pig in the yard.
Dots me-"
For a writer or speaker who desires
to influence others there ls no better
Eulo Iikhll - INuoW WudO you "hllt W
say, and say it." One whose own
thoughts are misty can only .befog others.
Men Of wide influence ave always SIM
ple and clear in their thinking, and
direct in their speaking.
There is no more absurd cant than
that the culture of the mind favors tho
culture of the heart. What do operas
and theatres for the moral elevation OF
society? Does sentimental novel
prompt to duty? Education seldom
keeps people from folly when the will il
not influenced by virtue.
Examining the world in ordor TO find
consolation, is very much like looking
carefully over the pages of great book
in order to find our OVID name, if not i'll
the text, at least in " laudatory note:
whether we find what we want or not,
our pre.occupation has hindered us from
true knowledge of its contents.
Whoever, by word of mouth, or by
shrug af eyebrow, or by by expressive
silence, or by stroke Of peu. endcavors
to give a f,.lse and injurious Impression
onnfhar-hia oIoraftor a hia