The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-01
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
The s~corners' delight in their scorn-
ing.
Never 60 back, success lies just be-
You'd.
No good al be accomplished without
effort.
The way of bliss lies not on beds Of
down.
A weak person is sometimes laughed
down.
The paths Of glory lead but to the
grave.
What's all the gaudy glitter of {
crown?
How long we live, not years, but ac-
lions tell.
The greatest fool Of all is he who fools
himself.
Drop your bad habits and they cannot
lower you.
All is but lip wisdom that wants ex-
perience.
Truth is as artless as II child, and as
persuasive.
Common sense is the favorite daugh-
ter of Reason.
No men ever became really great
without pains.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that
which is not?
You must stand your ground in the
hour of duty.
Under divine law men must work and
earn their bread.
There is nc revenge 10 complete as
forgiveness.
The next worst thing to lying is To
get caught at 1t.
Organized charity uncovers II multi
tude Of sins.
Tell me what you eat, and IIl tell
you what you are.
A proud heart and q lofty mountain
are never fruitful.
1t IS wise not to seek a secret and
honest not to reveal 1t.
The blessed man does not sit in the
seat of the scornful.
Did you v Q stop to think what may
happen in a minuter
Kindness will ofteu succeed where
eminent ability will fail.
Those who 60 for berries should not
retreat from briars.
Genius beckons a man up, and if he
attempts to climb will help him.
Prosperity is no Just scale: adversely
is the only balance to weigh friends.
The world is a comedy to those who
think; a tragedy to those who feel.
How much mort we might have
learned il we had less to unlearu.
Life is no life without the blessing Of
a friendly and edifying conversation.
The ooner you cut loose from one
who deceives yOlly the better off you
will be.
Moral courage will rank higher than
physical. The one is a daily necessity,
while the other may be- required only in
emergencies.
Do not fret. 1t only adds to your
burden. To work hard is very well; but
to work hard and worry too, is more
than human nature a stand.
Nothing is more beautiful than u Sc
rene, virtuous. happy old age. Such an
old age belongs to every individuals
life if he only knows how 10 build it.
1t is impossible that anything 50 nat
ural, so necessary and SO universal as
death, should ever Lave been designed
by Providence as an evil to mankind.
We can deflle ourselves, but we CAN
not cleanse ourselves. The sheep can
60 astray alone, but he can never re-
turn to the fold without the assistance
of the shepherd.
There would be a great supply of wit
and humor in this world, if we would
only give others the same credit for be-
ing witty that we claim for ourselves.
Be a companion to your husband, IL
he is a wise man; and If he Is not. try
to make him become your companion.
Raise his standard, do not let him lower
yours.
A good many slrewd people have
found out that the quickest way to get
rich is to offer a fee to explain the art
of getting rich to other people,
! Sentimentalists like Byron and Shell
ly might have a horror Of q woman who
confessed to a hearty appetite; but the
woman who fills homes with sunshine
are those who can both cook "A good
dinner and help to eat it.
The tiniest daisy that smiles SO sweet
ly at u feet owes its existence to the
patient pushing upward of tile small
germ against all the obstacles of soil
and stones; and, were it conscious. 1t
might tell a tale Of daily difficulty and
danger sturdily met and braycly over
come. So in humanity itself all that is
finest and most beautiful is intertwined
with difficulty.
We are born in bonds. and lead
through life in chains the strongest:
bonds to the position in which We find
ourselves, the inheritance physical and
moral given by parentage. We are
chained by customs; thinking as we are
led; ven when we differ from our fel.
lows, the divergence comes from u law
within ourselves.
Each one of As is bound to make the
little circle in which he lives better and
Of US is bound to see that
out of that small circle the widest good
may flow; each Of Vi may have fixed in
his mind that out of a single household
may flow influences that shall stimulate
the whole commonwealth and the whole
civilized world.
As amber attracts q straw, so does
admiration, which only lasts
while the warmth continues; but virtue,
wisdom, goodness, and real worth, like
the lo~adstone, never lose their power.
These are the true graces, which, as
Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand
in hand because it Is by their influence
that human hearts are so firmly united
10 each other.