The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-01-13
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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panlon Is to refuse an introduction to
him.
S)umber not in tho tents of your col
INNS. The world is advancing, advance
with it.
All the scholastic scaffoldiug falls a.
a ruined editice before one single word
faith.
Action may not always bring happi-
NESS, but there Is no happiness without
action.
10 correct IN evil Which already OK.
lists Is not 80 wise as to foresee and pre-.
vent it.
The devil always either COMES him
sell or sends some one when you Gull
for him.
10 prove fool il simply lost labor:
therefore do not sit down and scold
yourself.
| The master of superstition Is tho peo-
| pie. Aud in all superstition wise men
! follow fools.
1t was old Sam Johnson who said:
"Words are mems daughters, but Gods
sins arc things.
When you receive favor YOU ought
never to forget it; when you do one you
ought not to remember it..
Common sense does not ask an i'm
possible ehessboard, but takes tho one
before it and plays the game.
'Rnise no moro spirits than you cun
conJure down." is the motto of tho Iio
our dealers OF this country.
Talking very much aud lying lust n
l'ttle are good deal ncaror to each
other than most people think,
We think our civilization is nnar its
meridian, but we a,o yet only at .he
cockcrowing and the morning.
BE independent rs far as man can be
1t you would honor yourself: or be hon
ored by others, or be happy.
You must have confidence in your
abilities to servo the public, if you de-
sire to contribute to their wnuts.
Exact nothing beyond your Just dues;
exhorbltant claims engonder distrust and
bar the way to advancement,
Every man knows what is right. even
1t, rs Swift says, "his understanding,
ut the best, is of the middling size.
Llyo according to your hight, aud
| seek not to diminish the reputation OF
others III order to increase your own.
Re courageous md noblo.mindel.
our own heart, anu not other mems
opinions 0. us, forms our true honor.
Nothing makes tho world seem 30
spacious rs to have friends at distance,
they make the latitudos aud longitudes,
1t is probable that tho world owes
| every man living, but hs best claim
Tor what Is due Is that he has earned
it
Many genius has beon slow OF
growth. Oaks that flourish for |, 900
yea1s do not spring up III beauty like Il
reed.
If "prosperty is the worst enemy
man ever had,' wo oan only say that
nll our life we kave been surrounded by
friends.
Pleasure may be aptly compared to
many great books. which increase in
real value in The proportion they are
abridged.
There is very little that we 10 in tho
way OF helping our nelghbors that
doss not come back In blessings on our.
selves.
We live in progressive times. Holmes
SAID only ton years ago. "Put no.
your trust in money, but your money in
trust" but we have learned that it Is
not safe to do even that.
Every duty we'll done adds to the
moral and spiritual stature. Each op-
portunity eagerly grasped and used is
the key to larger privileges.
The next thing to excellence is to
lovo excellence; and to love its opposite
is to he It's opposite. 10 hate excel
lence is to be at its opposite pole.
AS in nature things move more vio-
lently to their place, and calmly in
their place, 80 virtue in ambition is
violent; in authority, settled and calm.
To express no more than is really
meant is one Of the first steps towards
correct speech, just as careful pruning
is as important to the vine as a rich
soil.
No man is 30 foolish but he may
give another good counsel sometimes,
and no han is so wise hut he may err
if he will take no others counsel but
his own.
The history of every discovery, of
overy reform, is the history of toll and
""eo'AhB cAiouSh AoHS uloCOuI1tBc-
ments.
Simple-minded John Wesley, when
preaching against riches said, 40 ride
in coach here and to get to heaven
hereafter" is almost too much for any
man to ask.
A fear that present joys arc "too good
to last, and that sadder day is coming,
is hardly less common, and not whit
more excusable, than the thought that
the former days were better than these.
If Spring puts forth no blossoms, IN
Summer there will be no beauty, ana
in Autumn no fruit. So, if youth be
trifled away without improvement, ripper
years will be contcmptiDle, and old age
miserable.
The finer the nature, the more flaws
will II show through the clearness of II.
The best things are seldomest seen in
their best form. The wild grass grows
we'll and strongly one year with another.
but this wheat il, by reason of its great
nobleness, liable to d bitter blight.
A sharp retort Is sometimes better
than an argument. Whom Sir John
became .exasperated at q puppy who
persisted in asking impertinent ques-
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