The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-02-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

The manners of nature make e. man:
tho manners of art unmake him.
| There's not string attuned to mirth.
Dpt hath its cord in melancholy.
The current may be strong. but that
which deties the current is stronger.
Religion can capture heart easior
thah II can overthrow the pocket-book,
Much OF the charity that begins at
nome is too feeble to get out of doors.
The shame Of being thought poor.
lp! leads to worse eyils than poverty itself.
None are so desoIate but something
dear, dearer than self possesses or pos
Who would venture on the tourney
OF lie, If compelled to begin it at the
end2
Character gives splendor to youth.
and awe to wrinkled skin and prnv
huirs. n.y.
If you would not have aflliction visit
you twice, listen at onco to whit IT.
teaches.
Devote each day to the subject then
III ume, and tho evening will find some-
thing done.
comparisons, whether rs to sense,
courage, beauty or rank, are always
ofensiYe.
Nothing from mans hands. nor Inv
nor constitution, can be final, Truth
alone is final.
Law and equity are two things which
God hath joined, but which man hath
put asunder.
The charity of the rioh is much to bo
commended, but how beautiful is the
charity of tho poor.
Slumber not in tho tents of your
fathers. The world is advancing.
Advance with it.
1t is from out the depths of our I'm.
mility that the height of our destiny
looks grandest.
When slander and falsehood aro
hltohed to PERSONS tongue, tho dovil
acts as coachman.
Matrlmony Is great blessing. be-
cause oven blind man has his eyes
opened after little while.
A wise and good man does nothing
for appearance, but everything for the
sake OF having acted we'll.
Wait for others to advance vour IN
terests, and you will wait until tflAy are
not worth advancing. -. X ..u
1t Is true wisdom to speak buhHtne :.
OF the injuries you have received. or
the good deeds you have done.
Imitation causes us to leave natural
ways to enter into artificial ones: it
therefore makes slaves.
Few. with the hope of another life.
would think it worth their while to 1.-Two
ABOVE the allurements OF sense.
1t is better to be Thought q fool than
knave, says the saw; but it is better
Still to be known to be neither.
A mans first: care should be to avoid
tho reproaches Of his own heart. his
hext, to escape the oens11res of the
world.
May I tell you why 1t seems to me
good thing for us. TO remember wrong
that has been done us? That we may
forgive 1t.
Nothing, indeed, but the possession
OF some power can with any certainty
discover what at the bottom is tho
true character of any man.
man has no more right to saw an
uncivll thing than to aot one; no moro
right to say rude thing to another
than to knock him down.
Discover the opinion Of your enemies.
which is comm only the truest; for they
Will give you no quarter, and allow
nothing to complaisanoe.
A word, look Which at one time
| makes no impression, at another time
wounds tho heart, and like n shaft flying
with the wind, pierces deep.
Employ ment, which Gallon calls '.nn-
| lures physician,' is 80 essential to hu-
man happiness that Incidence is Justly
considered the mother of misery.
The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do wcll.
and doing we'll whatever you do, with.
out thought of fame.
We cannot too strongly attack super-
sutton, which is the disturber of society:
nor too highly respect genuine religion;
which Is the support of 1T.
The iightsome countenance of
friend giveth such an inward decking
to the house where it lodgeth, as proud
palaces have cause to envy the gliding.
Many persons, after once thoy be-
come learned, cease to be good. All
other knowledge is hurtful to him who
has not the science Of honesty and
good nature.
Order is the sanity of tho mind, tho
health Of the body, the peace of the
city, the scrutiny OF the State. AS the
beams to house, as the bones to tho
mlcrocosm OF man, so Is order to oil
things.
They teach us to remember; why do
not they teach us to forget2 There is
not man living who has not, some
time in his life, admitted that memory
was as much OF CURSE as o blessing.
Tue way to subject all things to thy.
self Is to subject thyse' to reason,
Thou shalt govern many If reason gov
ern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned
the monarch of little world? Com
mand thyseif.
ST. Paul gave the palm to the women
who were stayers and workers at home;
for he recognized that home is the
crystal of society, and that domestic
love and duty are tho best security for
all that ls most dear to us on earth,
It was very proper answer to him
| who asked why any man should be de-
lighted with beauty. .!that it was q ques-