Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-02-15
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
/ True worth is void OF glory.

8 relief.
: Moderation is the silken string run.
ming through the pearl chain OF all vir.
tues.
The love of glory can only create Q
hero; the contempt of it creates great.
er man.
Next to an effeminate man there ia
nothing SO disagreeable as a mAnnsh
woman.
Slumber not in the tents OF your COL
ums. The world is advancing, advance
with it.
Nature goes on her own way; all that
to us seems an exception, is really ac-
cording to order.
The mind is like trunk. Well pack.
ed it holds almost everything; il ill
packed next to nothing.
Take your stand by the altar OF truth
and be not led or driven thence by
sophistry or by ridicule.
{ 1mmon sense does not ask an impos.
slole chessboard, but takes the one be-
fore 1t and plays the game.
Be courageous and noble-minded; our
own heart, and not other mems opinions
OF us, forms our true honor.
| We think our civilization is near its
meridian, but we are yet only at the
cock-crowing and the morning star.
Nothing makes the world seem so
spacious as to have friends at q distance:
they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Bad habits are the thistIes of the
heart, and every indulgence of them is
a sea from whicn will come forth crop
of rank weeds.
The more methods there are in q state
Tor acquiring riches without industry
or merit, the less there will be OF either
i'll that state.
A man of letters is often a man with
two natures-one a book nature. the
other a human nature. These often
clash sadly.
Ii we cultivate home friendships with
the assiduity that We give to those out
side, they will yield us even richer and
falrer returns.
One trade is respectable above anoth-
er only In consequence of the superior
responsibility of the class of men en-.
gaging IL it.
Pleasure may be aptly compared to
many very great books, which increase
IN real value III the proportion they are
abridged.
There were meyer in the world two
opinions alike, no more than two hairs
or two grains. The most universal
quality is diversity.
Old age is the night of life. as night
Is the old age of day. Still, night is
full OF magni6cence; and, for man, it is
more brilliant than the day.
Employment, which Galen calls "na-
lures physician" is so essential to hu-
man happiness that Incidence is Justly
considered rs the mother of misery.
To think properly one must think
independ emily, candidly, and consecu-
lively, only In this way can tram of
reasoning be conducted successfully.
Character is not cut in marble-it is
not something solid and unalterable.
1t is something living and changing,
and may become diseased as our bodies
do,
There never did, and never will. ex-
ist anything permanently noble and
excellent in character which is a stran-
ger to the exercises of resolute self
denial.
He that waits for an opportunity to
do much at once may breathe out his
life in idle wishes, and regret, in the
last hour, his useless intentions and
barren zeal.
Talk to women as much as you can.
This is the best school. IL is the way
to gain fuency, because you need not
care what you say, and had better not
be sensible.
Nothing so increases reverence for
others as great sorrow to ones self.
1t teaches one the depths of human
nature. In happiness we are shallow
and deem others so.
We often wonder that our men of
wealth do pot give more subjects of ma.
tive interest to our artists, and try to
fill their walls with more OF the riches
of our own rivers, lakes, wales and
mountains.
It is manifest that the life of charity
toward the neighbor, which consists in
doing what Is just and right in all our
dealings and occupations, leads to
heaven; but not life of piety without
charity,
The Christian faith is grand cathe-
draJ, with divinely pictured windows.
Standing without, you see no glory,
nor can possibly imagine any; standing
within. every ray reveals a harmony OF
unspeakable splendor.
Under the laws of Providence, life is
probation; probation is a succession
of temptations, temptations are emer-
gencies, and for emergencies we need
the preparation and the safeguard of
prayer.
The wise man has his follles no less
than the fool; but 1t has been said that
herein lies the d1fference-the follies
of the fool are known to the world, out
are hidden from himself; the follies OF
the wise man are known to himself,
but are hidden from the world.
The use of proverbs is characteristic
of an unlettered people. The common
sense of the lower classes is condensed
into these terse and convenient phrases,
and they pass from hand to hand as the
pence and farthings of conversation.
They are invaluable treasures to ounces
with good memories. They give q
; semblance of wit to the speech OF the
: dull.
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