The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-08
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Holiness Is an unselfing of ourselves.
Laws are the sovereigns of soyereipns.

mau may mold his tongue at the
wrong time. .
Real glory springs from the silent
conquest of ourselves.
True wisdom, in general consists in
energetic determination.
Chance Is q word void of sense: moth.
ing can exist without a cause.
Sunshine is like love, it makes eyery-
thing shine with its own beauty.
He will easily be content and at
peace whose conscience Is pure.
Ill fortune never crushed that man
whom good fortune deceiYed not.
One pound of learning requires ten
pounds OF commonsense to apply it.
There are more people who can FORGET
themselves than govern themselves.
The tongue Of slander is a sword
which is seldom allowed to grow rusty.
That man has attained to wisdom
time.
The very nature of loys is to find it's
benefit but theirs.
Don't Judge man bH his failure in
lie, Tor many man failA because he Ia
too honest to succeed.
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul Will be as strAng to live as
we'll as strong to think.
A man that studieth revSSaRe keeps
his own wounds green, which 6s 6sanerwise
would neal and do we'll. &sa.ss:.ss,
He who does Il base thing in zeal for
his friend, burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
There is fellowship among the Writ.
utes by which one great, generous pas
sion stimulates another.
Every lie, great or small, is the
brink OF precipice, the depth of which
nothing but conscience can fathom.
'It will pass away, weak parents
say of some fault of their children. Oh,
no! it will not pass away. it will de-
velop.
Certainly man is of kin to the breath
OF his body, and if he be not of kin to
God by his spirit, he is base and
ignoble CREATURE.
Books are the true Jewellers. They
give 20 all whe faithfully use them the
society, the spiritual presence, of the
greatest and best of our race.
Political parties cannot forever live
sfaP 8A Bs m9ys U than nuv
that he hos ''seen better days."
Feelings come and go like the troops
following the victory of the present:
but principles, like troops of the line.
are undisturbed and stand fast.
There are men in this naughty world
so mean that they would even consent
to take the beam from their eye" if
they could only sell it for timber.
Wrong doing Is road that may open
fair, but it leads to trouble and danger.
Well-doing, however rough and thorny
Mt first, surely leads to pleasant places.
Satire can no further go than when
Sam johnson said to BOBBY, ''if I
have snid anything that you understand,
sir, humbly Grave the pardon of the
rest of the company"
There Is always best way of doing
everything, If it be to boil an egg.
Manners are the happy ways of dong
things, each once stroke of genius or
of love, now repeated and hardened
into usage.
There is nothing which so thoroughly
depletes and rObs moral character Of
oil substance. there Is nothing which
SO effectually destroys oil robust in
dividuality. as the continuous asking
OF the question, "What will people
sayS"
Always say kind word If you can,
II only that it may come in, perhaps,
with singular opportuneness, entering
some mournful mans darkened room
like q beautiful FREELY, whose happy
convoutions he cannot but watch, for
getting his many troubles.
The thought of time is solemn and
awful to NIL minds Ill proportion to
their depth, and, in proportion as the
mind is superficial, the thought has
appeared little, and has been treated
with levity. Let but man possess
himself OF that thought---the deep
thought Of the brevity of time, the
thought that time is short, and that
eternity is long-and he has learned
the first great secret Of unworldliness.
We live, but our beloved ones who
have died also live; we stand weeping
on this globe, floating IN infinite space,
but our glorifed dear ones arc, like
ourselves. in Gods world. We are not
separated. No time lies between us;
for we, like them, dwell in eternity,
rest in the arms OF God.
If God gives me work to do, will
thank Him that he has bestowed on mo
a strong arm, If He give me danger to
brave, will bless Him that He has not
made me without courage, but will
60 down on my knees and beseech Him
humbly to MAKE mo tit for my task, il
He tells me it is only to stand and wait.
It Is q celebrated thought of Socra-
tes, that II all the misfortunes of man
kind were cast into public stock, in
order to be equally distributed among
the whole species, those who now
think themselves the most unhappy
would prefer tho share they are already
possessed Of, before that which would
fall to them by suoh division.
A mans transit from one lifts j. ! IL. x,
other, or from ono wosla * .S r ", 70 tie ai
is like journey fr o,,a n,aoe sne toue, ~ a,,
Other, .sne and hetakea het tsa With lin ali things m
~, S,%y ~ ~ E Possesses in himself as o man; j;
- tsdt it cannot be said that a man after
death, his death being only. that OF the
terrestrial body, has lost anything that
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