The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-15
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

| w OoAhuO ourselves.
Desperation is sometimes "a powerfu,
an lnspirer as genius.
Every man desires to live LONG but
no man would be old. WV
| Moral courage is the rarest of ouali-
ties and often maligned.
What appear to be oalamities aro
| often the sources of fortune.
The energy that wins succesa beo,ns
10 develop very early in life.
lie who sees the end from the begin
ming will do only what is right.
DO not suffer life to stagnate; it will
grow muddy for want of motion.
10 the blessed eternity itself there II
no other handle than this instant.
The sympathy of sorrow is stronger
thau the sympathy of prosperity,
1t is not life to live for one's se1f
alone, Let lis help one another.
Conscience is the voice of tho souf.
passions are the voice of the body.
1t requires less merit to discover tb.
| faults OF others than to boar them.
Admiration is q short-lived paasiop.
| unless 1t be fed by new discoveries.
Feebleness Of means is, in &hct, the
toebleness OF him that empIoysEb bhom.
There are some silent peopld kwho aro
more interesting than the bed takers.
Unkind language, on the pl pciple OF
like begets like, brings the saI return.
An apt quotation is like a 49, which
iilngs its light over the whoIeN ntence.
There is one art of which Try man
! should be master-the art OF r8{ ctlon.
Whom there is much pretention spuch
| ms boon borrowed; nature ncveT n le-
| tends. SstsfA y, =
One single not of indiscretion MAJ mSay
mar the enjoyment of whole exist.
| ence,
All men arc liberal; some to those
VINO arc IN neod, aud others to them.
| selves.
Perform present duties, that time
may DO apportioned for succeediua
labors.
No metaphysioian ever felt the def.
cheney OF language 80 much as tho
grateful.
Something may be gained from every
one we meet, no matter how ignorant
the person may DO.
Fortune is like market where verv
many times if you wait little prices
| arc liable to fall.
1t is not what you see that makes
you popular among your friends; it is
what you don't tell,
Never despse humble services: when
large ships run aground, little boats
may pull them of.
The man who is always boastipe Of
speaking his mind usually has the least
mind to speak of.
An ounce of prevention Is worth O
pound of cure. Take measures againat
committing rash act.
True humility, the basis of the Chris,
han system, is the deep and firm
foundation of oil rea! virtue.
Moaesty and humility are the sobrieiy
OF the mind; temperance and chastity
are the sobriety OF the body.
Don't strain your eyes by reading or
working with Insufficient or flickeripg
light. It Is very damaging.
II we really live under the hope of
future happiness. we shall taste it by
way OF anticipation and forethought
What is really momentous and all-
important with us Is the present, by
which the future is shaped and colored.
Money and time have both their
value. He who makes bad use of the
one will neyer make good use of the
other.
Great wealth is great blessing to
man who knows what to do with it; and
as for honors, they are inestimable to
! the honorable.
There is anguish in the recollection
hat we have not adequately appreoia-
cd the affection of those whom we have
loved and lost.
The art of conversation:-To be
prompt without being stubborn, to re-
| fute without argument. ana to clothe
matters in motley garb.
TO tell lie and then defend it with
other lies, is like digging cellar and
making it large enough to hold all The
dirt that is displaced.
The beauty of our fair ones gives
point to our spears, and edge to our
swords; their words are our law; and as
soon will have lamp shed lustre whom
unkindled, as knight distinguishes
himself by feats Of arm, having no mis-
tress Of his affections.
AS the Divine Being is n Being of
inexhaustibIe glory, is it likely that He
would keep it to Himself, or indeed
could He? For love wishes to CON-
munioate it's own TO another Ito give,
indeed, as much of its own as it can,
and what then must the Divine Love
DO, whioh is infinite.
The soul Of man in accord with or in
spite of his philosophy ''cries out for
God. for the living God" 1t will not
rest short Of this, essentially, in some
form whatever 1T processes to believe or
dlsbelieve, it has something stil to take
| the place of what it calls the great
unknown and unknowable.
Peace is better than Joy. Joy is q
very uneasy guest and is always on tip.
toe tc depart It tires and wears us
out, and yet keeps ,ls ever fearing that
the next moment 1t will be gone.
Peace is not so. 1T comes more quietly,
1t stays more contentedly, and it never
exha,ists our strength, nor gives us
one anxious, forecasting thought.
Christ is truth for the underst landing,
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