Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-05-12
E FOR THOUGHT.

Every persons feelings have a front door
and q side door by which they may be en-
tered. The front door faces the street.
Some keep it always open, with chain that
will let you peep in but not get in, and
some nail it up, so nothing can pass ITS
threshold. This front door leads into q
passage which opens into an ante room, and
this into the interior apartments. The side
door opens at once into the secret chamber.
There is almost always one key to the slde
door. This is carried hidden for years IN a
mothers bosom. Father, brother, sisters
and often friends, but by no means 50 uni
versally, may acquire q duplicate oft. The
wedding ring conveys a right &c one-a!as
If zone is gwen with ii Be very careful TO
whom you trust one 81 these key8>to the
side door.
1t 10 certainly a great misfortune when
the daily work Of men or women Is 50 dis
tasteful that they are glad to dismiss all
thoughts Of it as soon as it is over The
work itself must suffer in quality, having
had no heart put into ii. and the performer
Of it sacrifices a large portion Of li'e's most
soho happiness. There is, however. an OPP
poeite extreme that some truly conscIentious
people fall into-that of carrying the daily
business into all their waking hours There
10 hardly q co~unterbalancing feature in this
habit of mind. If ever the work itself was
benefited thereby, there might be some JUS
LITIGATION, but the truth Is that every bus
mess duty needs complete liberation from
The strain of it at times.
Among the many arts which should De
seduIossly taught and earnestly studied, the
artofthinking should stand eminent. Every
body thinks it IS an involuntary mcnta}
process that comes with the frs, dawn ..
Intelligence and continues through lie. Bur
to think well is a rare art Most Of our
thinking is desul'ory, wandering, and con
fused-a sort Of litter of things good and
lad, useful and useless, without arrange
ment, plan, or purpose, Good thinking has
al aim it ia a straight path to truth, 1t
longs for great spiritual things, and chooses
the nearest way.
There 10 no greater mistake IN the world
wrote Leigh Hunt, than the looking upon
every sort Of nonsense rs want Of sense
The difference between nonsense not worth
talking and nonsense worth 1t Is simply this
the former is the result of a want Of ideas,
the latter q supelabundance Of them.
Age takes It's pleasure from memory
youth centres its joys in the hope Of the
future; philosophy, which belongs neither &c
hs young nor the old exclusively, has re-
gard to the present, and sobers its visions Of
whatisto come by the experience Of what has
already gone before.
Every question asked by a child minc
is q reaching out toward the soul OF things
and every question rightly answered anc
every law understood stimulates the growth
of the child's mind toward the world thai
lies around it.
Happiness or misery is in the mind. j
is the mind which lives, and the lenghth o
hfe ought to be measured by the numbel
aud importance OF our ideas, aud not by III,
number of our days.
There IS this difference between happi
ness and wisdom he that thinks himsel
the happiest man is really 90, but he tha
thinks himself the wiscst is generally tn,
biggest fool.
A loving act does more good thar a fer,
exhorMtion. What mankind needs il no
more good takers bu. more good Sanar
iians.
Perfect is introduction tha, IS writ n i
sand, and washed away-by the tide exam
pie Is Introduction engraved on the rock
Prosperity is not a Just scale adversely i
the only balance to weigh friends.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those VIII,
need it msot take it least.
Simplicity, Of all things, is the hardest t
be copied.
Trust not him that seems q saint.