The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-01-20
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Lie not for any consideration.

uoes Aot uafo quick COMO Ill the SlVer
own heart.
The surest way to make ourselves
agreeable to others is by seeming to
think them 3d.
Nature goes on her own way; all that
to us seems an exception, is really ac-
oording to order.
Always be as witty MS you can with
your parting bow-your lust speech is
the one remembered.
| The trouble and worry aud wear and
tear that comes from hating people
makes hating Improbable.
Ia the calendar of happiness, timo is
reokoned in minutes; in that of unhap-
piness. it is reokoned in days.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of doing, while others Judge us
by what we have already done.
If you can count the sunny and cloudy
days of the whole year, you will find
that the sunshine predominates.
A coward boasting of lis courage
may deceive strangers, but he is laugh
ing-stock to those who know him.
Good qualities are the substantial
riches of the mind; but it is good breed
ing thnt sets them Off to advantage.
10 possess a superior education,
without natural ability, is to have Il
quiver full of arrows without bow.
Truth is good dog, but beware of
barking too close ut the heels of error,
lest yeu get your brains kicked out.
10 be perfectly just is an attribute Of
the divine nature; to be 30 to the utmost
OF our abilities, is the glory of man.
Poetry is the blossom and fragrance
of ofallhuman knowledge, human thoug hts,
human passions, emotion, Language.
Christian forbearanoe cnn IL great deal
better be shown whom you are Oh top OF
man than when is on tho top OF you.
A crowd is not company, and faces
are but gallery of pictures, and talk
but tlnkllng cymbal, when there is 10
love.
AS pure and fresh country mir gives
vlgor to the system, so do pure md
fresh thoughts tend to invigorate the
mind.
Every great example of punishment
mas III 1t some Justice, but tho suffering
Individual is compensated by tho public
good,
When misfortune happens to
friend, look forward ai1d oudenvor to
prevent the snme thing from happening
to yourself.
Men may often stoop TO folly or even
crime with impunlty, ii they possess
sufficient wealth to purchase sll, uco and
stihe opposition.
Bad temper Is its own scourRe. Fow
Things are Dltterrr than TO feel bittcr
mans venom polsons himself mole
tuan his victim.
Truthfulness is cornerstone in
character, aud ii it bo tirnaiy lui,l IN
youth, there viii never alter DO weak
spot i'll the foundation,
We look ut the one little woman's
face we love, rs we look at tho face OF
our mother earth, and see all sorts OF
answers to our own yearnings.
SeH-love is at once the most delicate
aa.t most tenacious of our sentiments; Il
mere nothing will wound it, but there
Is nothing OH earth will kill 1T.
Help others and you relieve yourse If.
Go out and drive that cloud away from
that distressed friends brow, nnd you
wilt return with lighter heart.
Many a small man is never done talk
ing about the sacrifices he makes, but
he is great man indeed who can sucri-
Ece every thing and say nothing.
Leniency will operate with greater
force, III somo INSTANCES, than rigor.
1t is, therefore, my wish to have nay
whole conduct distinguished by ii,
Though wo cannot create favorable
| circumstances, we can, ut least, refuse
to join the envlous throng that bark at
tt> L, - l.
Mono are 80 fond of secrets rs those
who do not mean to keep them; they
covet secret as the spendthrift covets
money, merely that they may circulate
it.
| Use despatch. Romember that the
world only took six days to create, Ask
me for whatever you please except time
that Is the only thing which il beyond
my power.
| With love. tho heart becomes fair
and fertile garden, with sunshine and
warm hues, and exhallng sweet Oh ors !;
but without it. it is bleak desert COW
cred with ashes.
Society is the offspring of leisure: and
to acquire this forms tho only rational
motive for accommodating wealth, not
wlthstanding the cant tnat prevails on
the subject of labor.
To think we arc able is almost to be
so; to determine upon attainment is
frequently attainment itself. Thus
earnest resolution has often seemed to
have about 1T almost SAVIOR of omnipo-
tence.
TO be beautiful we must feed tho
spark OF intellectual fire, by reading
and meditation. until it burns in a
steady flame, irridlating the face by its
briliiancy, suffusing the countenance
with delight.
The love Of man to woman is thing
common, and of course, at first par
takes more OF instinct and passion than
OF choice; but true friendship between
man and man is infinite and immortal.
Nature has left every man a capacity
OF being agreeable, though not of SHIN
ing in company, and there are hun
dred men sufficiently qualified for both,
who, by very few faults that they
might correct in half an hour, are not
so much as tolerable.
AS the blade of wheat whilst I'M.
grown and empty holds itself proudly
up, but 30 soon as the ear is filed will
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