Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13
Food for Thought.

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A good name is a rich inheritance.
To succeed, appear fool and be sage.
The nature of bad news infects the teller.
He who begins many things, finishes but
few.
The tongue is the worst part of bad
servant.
Wise counsel is wasted upon an angry
man.
Man must become wise by his own ex-
perience.
Silence is wonderful power in human
affairs.
Small faults indulged are little thieves
that let in greater.
Obstinacy and heat in argument are
surest proofs of folly.
Worth begets in base minds envy; in
great souls emulation.
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is
every minute Of time.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the
highlands Of affliction.
The weak sinews become strong by their
COnIllcJ WIN d1fncultleS.
To love is to admire with the heart; to
admire is to love with the mind.
Fame comes only when deserved, and
then is as inevitable as destiny.
Mere sensibility is not true taste, but
sensibility to real excellence is.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly;
to live happily to live wisely,
Truth is as impossible to be seiled by
any outward touch SIS the sunbeam.
Girls we love for what they are; young
men for what they promise to be.
All the good maxirns which are in tho
world fail when applied to ones self.
Unfriended indeed is he who has no friend
bold enough to point out his faults.
Action may not always bring happiness,
but there is no happiness without action.
No success in life can be so desirable that
man can afford to sell his integrity for it.
One true friend adds more to our happi:
ness than a thousand enemies to our un-
happiness.
Women swallow at one mouthful the lie
that flatters, and drink drop by drop the
truth that is bitter.
That was sound advice given by a sage
to young writer: Think much, write little,
publish still less.
Canst thou wait? Then thy success is
assured; for patience is genius, and ge-
MUS for patience is success.
Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance rather than seek for knowledge
under false pretence.
We judge ourselves by what we ieel ca
pable of doing, while others judge us by
what we have already done.
What mistakes we should make if we
had the choosing, and marked out nice,
smooth paths for our friends.
We pass our lives in regretting the past,
complaining of the present, and indulging
false hopes of the future.
Instruction does not prevent waste of
time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves
are often the best teachers Of all.
To things which you bear with impa-
tienoe you should accustom yourself; and,
by habit, you will bear them well.
He whose first emotion on the vieg of an
excellent production is to undervalue it will
EtVt.I lHN6 OnO VI HIS OWu W SuOW
The one doctrine in which all religions
agree is that new light is added to the mind
in proportion as it uses that which it has.
If everybody would tell everybody Just
what they really thought of everybody, ev-
erybody would think but little of every body.
Censuring, with the desire to mortify, is
very different from that suggestion of our
errors which it is the office Of friendship to
give.
| The first principle of true peliteness is
not to offend against such dispositions of
| the mind of others as arc almost insepara-
bic from our species.
lie who, with many powers of indignation
in him, can be provoked, and yet restrain
himself and forgive, is the strong man and
the spiritual hero.
The essence of true nobility is neglect Of
self Let tho thought of self pass in, and
the beauty of great action is gone, like
the bloom of soiled flower.
That man is rich who has good DISPOSE
tion-who is naturally kind. patient, cheer
full, hopeful and who has favor of wit
and fun in his composition. &E