The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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without thinking.
We are no longer happy SO soon as
we wish to be happier.
A man Of lofty thought and elevated
opinion-a balloonist.
| The greatest happiness comes from
the greatest activity.
| Love for the dead should not cramp
our duty to the living.
1t is upon the smooth ice we fall: the
roughest path Is the safest.
Occasions do not make u man frail.
but they show what he is.
Despise no one; for every one knows
something thou knowest not.
a prayer in it's simplest definition is
merely wish turned God-ward.
Genius at first is nothing more thai
great capacity for receiving discipline.
! Kaslness Is not valor; doubtful Nopes
ought to make men resolute, noY rash.
| True friendship is like soundfhealth;
its value is seldom known ultkil it is
lost. 80" II
lie who rises late must trot all day,
at night. 81
True love always makes q an bet
ter, no matter who the womSl is or
who inspires it,
What men want is not tale "A, it is
the will to labor. N
| Lie who does good for goods ~sHEEe
seeks neither praise nor reward, thougfs
sure Of both at last.
One may be better than his rcputa-
ton or his conduct, but never better
than his principles
The best way to show our apprccia-
tlon OF the Divine forbearance is to be
forbearing ourselves.
The feeble tremble before opinion,
the foolish defy it, the wise Judge it,
the skilful direct it.
Pay your honest debts before YOU
subscribe to charitable undertakings.
Honesty before charity.
Let us have faith that right makes
might, and in that faith let us. to the
end, dare to do our duty.
Life is not so excessively charged
with sweetness that one needs to be
continually throwing in acids or bitters
A man may be thought clever while
ne is seeking for wisdom; but, if he inn
agines he has found it, he is fool.
He who is false to present duty
breaks flaw in the loom: and will find
the flaw when they have forgotten tho
cause.
~A Christians experience is like a
rainbow, made up of drops of the grief
OF earth and beams of the bliss Of
heaven.
| There are some things I am afraid to
40, and / confess it is IN this great
presence; L am afraid to do a mean
thing.
The commandments were given that
men might live according to them; not
merely that hey might be acquainted
with them.
We all know what our duties are,
but we dodge them; we all know what
our rights are, and we are bound to
have them. ....a
A cheerful temper, joined with inno-
cence, will make beauty attractive,
knowledge delightful, and wit good
| natured.
| Power, in it's quality and degree, is
| the measure Of manhood. Scholarship,
save by accident, is never the measure
of mans power.
The talent Of success is nothing moro
than doing what you can do we'll, and
doing well whatever you do without
a thought Of fame.
If you want to gain reputation for
eccentricity, and to be universally
dreaded, if not hated, blurt out the
plain truth on all occasions
The losses, troubles, sufferings Of our
daily life are only the dust and cinders
blown into the travellers eyes on the
journey to our heavenly home.
1t is how, far more than what we do,
that is the source of the pleasure or
pain which our daily lives are radiating
upon those whom we love best.
Adyersity has ever been considered
as the state in which man most easily
becomes acquainted with himself, par
ticularly, being free from fatterers.
| A narrow minded Christian leading
q life of crooked prejudices and doing
it conscientiously makes moro atheists
than all the inlidel books ever written.
DR.. Holland describes faith as draw
ing poison from every grief, removing
the sting from every loss, quenching
the fire of every pain, and only faith can
do it.
When fate has allowed to any man
moro than one great gift, accident or
necessity seems usually to c0ntrive that
one shall incumber and impede the
other.
Doubt has been the great discoverer.
TO question an old lie is usually tho
first step toward a new truth. 1t is an
act Of heroism to dispute a moss.grown
error out of existence. :,
Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man, Is richer, happier,
or wiser for it. 1t commehds no one to
society; it is disgusting to refined people
and abomifable to the good.
The man whom you can treat with
unreserved familiarity, at the same
time preserving your dignity and his
respect, Is a rare companion, and his
acquaintance should be cultivated.
| Men pray for holiness as If it were
something entirely apart, from their
everyday life, something that Had moth
ing at all to do with. their conduct in
their domestic, social i and business
relations. & \, u 4 81. e,}
4 In every manlsh cup, how bitter So
i ever, there are some cordial drops some