The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-12-10
ITEMS FOR THOUGHT.

1t is your habits that are leading you
TO success or ruin.
Love, faith, patieuce-the three essen
tials to a happy life.
Love is Iowliness on the wedding
rig sparkles no jewel.
No nan ever stated his griefs as light
ly as he might dc.
II you would know what dollar is
worth, try 10 borrow one.
He that would jest must take u jest,
else 10 let it alone were best.
He who buys wants hundred eyes,
who sells need have out one.
No man is matriculated to the art OF
life till be has been we'll tempted.
A man generally employs his passion
when he is at the end OF his reason.
Except ye become as little children ye
cannot enter :he kingdom Of heaven.
Physic is, for the most part, but
substitute for exercise or temperance.
He who murmurs with his lot is like
one barirg his feet to tread on thorns.
A chiId's heart responds to the tones
of its mothers voice like Earp to the
wind.
Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily
condemn everything that is beyond their
range.
To be in a passion is to punish ones
self for the faults and impeItinences OF
another.
They that do nothing are in the Teadi-
est way to do that which is worse than
nothing.
Promises made in time of affiiction
require a better memory than people
commonly possess.
To enjoy thing exclusively is com
monty to exclude yourself from the true
enjoyment of it.
The more tender and delicate the bios
SONS of joy, the purer must be the hand
that will Gull them.
A promise is a just debt, which you
must take care to pay. for honor and
honesty are I06 ScCuElJy.
The busybody labors without thanks,
woks without credit, lives without love,
and dies without tears.
Women who read prefaces and notes
are Of sOme significance with men, at
most, the opposite were true.
We are not only governed by people
who are weaker than ourselves, but even
by those whom we think so.
The best of all prayers is, to act with
pure intention, and with a continual
/ reference TO the will Of God.
Contentment is good thing until it
/ reaches the point where it sits ia the
| shade and let's the weeds grow.
Whatever is learned should be learned
so thoroughly that the next and higher
step may be comparatively easy.
| Every man s roof covers little corner
. of Paradise, unless he has a scolding
wife, in which case the climate changes.
A man can do without his own appro-
baton in much society, but must make
great exeItion to gain it when he lives
alone.
The man who gets his living by his
wits alone. generally works with too
small a capital. He only succeeds in
failing.
One of the most important distinctions
of our judgment is, that some OF them
are intutitive and others founded on the
judgment.
II is with narrow-souled people as with
narrow-necked bottles, the less they have
in them, the more noise they make IN
pouring it out.
What the country needs most is broad,
true men at the front-men who think
more of their country and its interests
than of themselves.
In proportion as tie structure of a
government gives force to public opin-
ion, it is essential that public opinion
should be enlightened.
With time everything yanishes and
decays except the virtue of the true,
which will stand like rock, and guard
them unframed forever.
The body of man, oppressed by excess,
bears down the mind and depresses to
the earth any portion Of the divine spirit
we have been endowed with,
No great civilization is possible to a
race, nor spiritual progress to an individ-
ual, where the power of death to dissolve
life is not conquered In thought and
feeling.
We should manage our fortune as we
do our health-eDjoy it when good, be
patient when it is bad, and never apply
violent remedies except in extreme ne.
cessitY.
In most quaTrels there is fault on both
sides. Both flint and steel are necessary
to the production of spark either NAV
hammer on wood forever, and no fire
will follow.
1t is better that joy should be spread
over all the day in the form Of strength.
than that it should be concentrated into
ecstscies full of dangers and followed
by reactions.
Patience under persecution is a Chris
tian virtue; but there are times in the