Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-17
Food Tor Thought.

courage luxurles-
Pride is never so offensive as when
3 in chains. g3
s28 a sealskin saque does not always
keep the heart warm.
When men are lonely they stoop
to any companionship.
The darkest cloud often contains
G the most fruitful showers.
The pure worship of a pure heart
is an inspiration and song.
There may be loyalty without
love, but never love without loyalty.
A golden koy will often find the
s. way to unlock many secret drawer.
Fine manners are like personal
! beauty--a letter of credit every
whore.
Death is sleepless messenger
y and life wakeful handmaid of crea-
# tion.
Truth is as impossible to be soilcd
by any outward touch rs The sun
beam.
"Doing as well as you know how"
is all right if you always know how
: to do well. t.
II 1t is often more difficult to oblitc-
q rate traces Of spilled ink than drops
of spilled blood.
Those who arc honest and earnest
in their. honesty have no need to pro-
claim the fact. >
We always like those who admire
us; we do not always like those
whom We admire.
Truth may be defined as the short
est possible distance from one point
to another.
Babylon in all its dcsolation is n
sight not so awful as that of the hu-
man mind in ruins.
The happiness of love is in action
its test is what one is willing to do
for others. Ill.
1t is good for man to love his
enemies, if he can do so without in
juring his friends.
Intellect has been called the star
light of the brain. Religion is the
starlight of the soul.
Better to be dcspiscd for too anx~
ious apprehension than ruined by
too confident a security.
The poorest education that teaches
self-control is better than the best
that negiccts it.
;, Absence is to love what fasting is
to the body-a little stimulates it,
but long abstinence is fatal.
Nothing is so contagious as exam
pie; we arc never much evil or much
good without imitators.
BY our law, no good is to be left
undone towards all not the good of
tho tongue, the hand, the heart.
There arc none that fall so un-
pitied as those that have raised
themselves upon the spoils of the
public.
God designs that charitable in
tercourse should be maintained
among men, mutually pleasant and
beneficial
If you enlist in the army say
prayer; if you go to sea, say two; if
you get married, say three.
Life is before you-not earthly
life alone, but life, a thread running
interminably through the warp of
eternity.
Civilization has made justice one
of tho luxurics, for which We have
to pay the highest price.
The tongue is really very fast
member Of the body polite; he does
all the talking and two-thirds OF the
thinking.
A spirited race horse and balky
mule seldom work together. Some
folks take this for proof that the
harness is failure.
Very often the man who "boiled
with Indignation" one day SINNERS
with regret the next morning, cspc-
cially if his wrath be put up in cold
type.
When you have found the master
passion Of man, remember never to
trust him where that passion is con-
ccrncd.
If there is one thing on this earth
that mankind loves and admircs
more than another, it is a brave man,
man who dares to look the devil
in the face and tell him that he is
the devil.