Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-13
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.
There is value in experiment.

There is value IN experiment.
Love is mutual understanding.
The reward of one duty done is the
power to fulfil another.
Magnanimity owes no account to pru-
dence of its motives.
General tidiness not only pays on its
own account, but because to be tidy is to
be economical.
If everybody knew what one said of
another, there would not be four friends
left in the world.
There probably never was man so
good that he did not hope in his heart
that his successor would be failure.
To be always intending to lead new
life, but never to find time to set about
it, is as if man should put off eating
and drinking from one day to another,
till he is starved and destroyed.
Some people scorn to be taught others
are ashamed of it, as they would be of
going to school when they are DID, but
it is never too late to learn what it is al
ways necessary to know. And it is no
shame to learn SO long as we are ignorant
that is to say, so long as we live.
Punishment is fruit that, unsupported,
ripens within the flower of the pleasure
which concealed it. Cause and effect,
means and end, seed and fruit can not
be severed, for the effect already blooms
IN the cause, the end preexists in the
means, the fruit in the seed.
Every individual owes obedience to
something, and there can be no obedi-
ence without authority. Indeed freedom,
rightly understood, imposes the most
solemn obligations of all. When nc
human control binds man, he is bound
with the greater stress to obey the right,
to bow to the authority of conscience.
to live up to his highest ideal.
Of no use are the men who study to
do exactly as was done before, who can
never understand that to-day is new
day, We want men of original action.
who can open their eyes wider than to
nationality, namely, to considerations OF
benefit to the human race, can act in the
interest of civilization; men of elastic,
men of moral mind, who can live in the
moment and take step forward.
There are things that could never grow
familiar. Daybreak is one. There is al
ways mystery about it. 1t is like COM
ing to life again after death You have
been away you don't, know where, ant
you come back again to the world, and
when you find it as it is now, belongin.
almost to yourself, all the other peopl
as good as out of it, it is very strange
! No, l am not afraid of becoming to
familiar with beautiful things.
There has been so much justly sal
about the prejudicial effects of overwork
especially in using up the powers of ma
and cutting short his life, that it may
hastily assumed by some that work itse
3 opposed to length of days. This, hov
ever, is fatal mistake. Whatever ma
be proved concerning the comparativ,
tendencies of different employments t.
shorten life, it will always be found thai
life of idleness will surpass them al
The faculties of man, used and NJ
abused, serve not only to benefit Il
world, but even more to benefit himsej
dis health, happiness, and length of lils
depend largely upon the regular, steady.
and full-not xcessive-employment o.
his powers. He who neglects this law,
and suffers them to run to waste, lead
ing an aimless and vacant life, will req
the penalty quite as much in his ow
Inferior condition, physical and ment;
as in any external loss he may sustain.