Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
Selections.

An evil haOlt Is never conquered by
yielding to it.
Thoughts, Lot hours, are measures
OF life.
No man is free who does not COM
mand himself,
Only crows and fools are afraid OF
shabby suit OF clothes.
He who lives for himself lives for a
mean fellow.
The memory of good actions is the
starlight of his soul.
Children have no more need of mod.
els than of critics.
ALI men can act well but few can
write. paint or carve well.
Strive To elevate yourselves, but
never by pulling Others down.
1t is not what we read, but what we
remember that makes us wise.
Memory should be storehouse, not
lumber room.
Wait for others to advance your in
terests, and you will wait until they are
not worth advancing.
The great centre of happiness is
something to hope for and something to
love.
There is no folly equal to throwing
away friendship In a world where friend
ship is so rare.
-Ingratitude is so deadly a poison
that it destroys the very bosom in which
1t Is harbored.
Were ", 10 thank God for every
blessing, We should have no time to
complain of misfortune.
If you are going to love Christ, you
must find some way Of doing it in things
of everyday life
"A smile may be bright when the
heart i sad. Were it not so this world
would be Il gallery filled with sad faces
Give US not men like the weather.
cocks, that change with every wind, but
men like mountains, who change the
winds themselves.
Let US only think OF achieving the
present day we'll and when tomorrow
shall have arrived, 1t, too, will be
called to-day, and then we shall think
of 1t.
When Sir Walter Scott was urged
not to prop the falling credit OF an &C
quaintance, he replied "The man was
my friend when friends were few, and
will be his now that his enemies are
many"
The last, best fruit that comes to
o frnitinn in Tho EinIliao+
is the tenderness towards the hard, for.
bearaDce towards the unforbearing,
warmth of heart towards the cold, phi.
lanthropy towards the misanthropic.
If Satan and ever did strive for
any word of God 10 all my life, it was
the good word OF Christ, "Him that
cometh unto me | will in no wise cast
out" he at one end and at the other
Oh, what work We made 1t was FOR
this that we did so tug and strive; he
pnlled and pulled but God be praised
l overcome him, and got sweetness from
t.-Banyan.
Make the heart right, and the man
will be right, the child will be right ;
make the men, women and children
right, and the home will be right, make
the home right, and the town and city
will be right make the town and cities
righ', and the States will be right
make the States right, and the nations
will be right, and the world will be
right.
"A committee OF eight ladies, in
London, was appointed to meet on a
certain day at twelve o'clock. Seven oil
them were puuctnal, but the eighth
came hurrying in, with many apologies
for being quarter OF an hour behind
time. She said that the time had passed
away without her being aware of it.
she had "no idea of its being so late"
A Quaker lady present said, "Friend, /
am not so clear that We should admit
thine apology. 1t were matter of regret
that thou shouldst have wasted thine
own quarter Of an hour; but here are
seven besi.es thy self, whose time thou