The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-29
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

little. ''' WV
old age. ''''' Ao'
An i'll servant will never. be good
have it. '''
Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly. Wv
II you are III debt, somebody owns
part of you.
Trust not the man who promises
with an oath. ~,@ ~ y,
Always look on the bright side OF
everything.
-, Inc sweetest rose grows upon the
sllarpest thorns.
A true man will not swerye from the
path of duty. ''''
Bustle is not industry, nor is impu-
dence courage.
Desperate diseases must have despe-
rate remedies.
Nothing is so reasonable and cheap
us good manners.
Ihe first and worst Of all faults is
TO cheat ones self.
Search others for their virtues. und
thysef for thy vices.
Experience is the name men give toI
Their follies or their sorrows.
There is no sweeter repose than that
winch ls purchased by labor.
Every man has his gift, and the tools
go TO him who can use them.
Grleye not that men know not YOU.
gfleVc That you know not men.
True independence has no dinicultv
III accepting necessary Kindness.
We usually learn to wait onlv when
we have no longer anything to wait
for.
The company in which you will i'm
prove most will be least expensive to
you.
There is more folly involved in sus-
pcctlng every one than in trusting every
one.
There are many vices which do not
deprive us of friends; there are many
virtues which prevent our having any.
~ mans first care should be to avoid
the reproaches of his own heart; his
next, TO escape the censures of the
world.
Never take more III hand than you
can well accomplish, or you will break
up, and the work will be broken up
with you.
YOU SnOulu always emphasize the second
syllable, though your meaning is con-
tanned in the first
Love, and the passions which it ex-
cites, are almost always a subject Of
rldlcule for those who do not inspire it
or experience it.
The difference between what is called
III this world happiness or unhappiness
is so little that we ought never to envy
or pity anybody.
The impatient man, however bril-
liant, seldom wins, because he destroys
his own chances Of success by not
waiting for the harvest.
Firnlness is us different from it's
mean s'lbstitute-obstinacy, as rashness
IS from true courage, prudery from
virtue, and bigotry from religion.
a beautiful godly life, noble man.
hood, filled full of tidelities and heroisms,
is itself the very best statement and the
very best defense of Christianity.
When we disagree with another man
rs TO the details Of an event, there is a
great deal of difference between history
and mystery or his story and my story.
1t is said by those who have made
themselves acquainted with good
society that fewer ladies than ever be-
fore suffer from any form of heart dis
ease.
The best definition of "step mother"
tells us that she is Il mother who spOils
her own children and steps on those
! which she has unwillingly inherited by
marriage.
All those things which are now held
to be one of the greatest antiqity, were,
ut one time, new; and what we to-day
hold up by example, will rank hereafter
as a precedent.
10 preserve ourselves happy, it Is
not enough that we have external
sources OF comfort; we must keep open
tho well-springs of contentment and
peace within.
Real foresight consists in reserving
our own forces. If we labor with
anxiety about the future, we destroy
that strength which will enable us to
meet the future.
a man is always a fool. II he be
young, the world says when he is older
he will know more; IL lie be older, it
says he Is old enough to know better;
and when he IL old, it says there Is no
kind of an idiot equal to an old fool.
Candor is often nothing but another
name for rudeness or malice. Cold
words will break fine heart, as Win
ter.'s frost does a crystal vase. Those
who have no patience Of their own,
forget what demand they make on that
Of others.
Let us cherish sympathy. BY atten-
tion and exercise it may be improved
in every man. 1t prepares the mind
for receiving the Impressions Of virtue;
and without 1t there can be no true
politeness. Nothing is moro odious
than that insensibility which wraps a
man up in himself and his own con-
Germs, and prevents his being moved
with either the joys or the sorrows OF
another.
Social positions are like the key
board of a piano. You start according
to the intelligence, fortune or rank that
you have, from such and such a note
but the diaphason once given, the
. ! II nf ,>lo a.