Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-16
Selections.

Religion Is the only metaphyslC
that the multitude can understand and
adopt.
1T is better to make ones self &C.
eepI"9le than to make ones self impor-
tant.
-Fe men ale worthy to be heads OF
families, and few families are capable OF
having head.
We would choose for a wife only
the woman we should choose were she
a man.
We measure minds by their stature;
II would be better to estimate them by
their beauty.
Heaven rarely grants to the same
man the gift OF thinking well, speaking
well and OF acting we'll in all things.
There are heads that have no win
dows, and that daylight cannot strike
from above. Nothing comes iuto them
from heaven.
There are souls transparent and pure
whose lives are like a sunbeam that
sports In drop OF dew.
Order is the coordination of means
10 the end, OF parts to the whole of
work TO the model, OF reward to merit.
The triumph of women is not to
wear out and conquer their prosecutors,
out 10 soften them and make them lay
down their arms.
How many people make themselves
abstract to appear profound. The great
est part Of abstract terms are shadows
that hide vacuum.
In the spirit OF the Christian there
Is a perpetual spring tide, and in the
wlntry valleys he hears the ripple of ev-
er flowing streams.
Instead OF complaining that the
rose has thorns, | congratulate myself
That the thorn is surmounted by roses,
and that the bush bears flowers.
The god Of metaphysics is but an
Idea, but the God of religion, the Creator
OF Heaven and earth, the sovereign
Judge of actions and of thoughts, is a
power.
Let US be men with men and always
children before God for in his ewes we
are but children. Old age itself in pres.
'ence of eternity is but the first moment
of morning.
We comprehend the earth only when
we have known heaven. Without the
spiritual world the material world is a
disheartening enigma.
Mature has made two kinds of ex-
ceiIent minds; the one TO produce beau
tiful thoughts and beautiful actions, the
other to admire them.
This life is but the cradle of the
other. What avail then sickness, time.
old age, death different degrees of a
metamorphosis which doubtless has
here below oAly beginning?
Vice and ignorance are the necessary
companions of each other, and we can
no more reverse it than we can reverse
the stars in their courses.
-Falseness OF mind comes from false.
ness OF heart; it proceeds from ones
having secretly for aim ones own opin-
ion, and not the true opinion. The false
mind is false in everything, as squint.
ing eye always looks obiquely.
We should speak to men of des.ruc.
ton only TO make them think of dura-
ton, and of death only to make them
think OF life for death runs into life.
and destruction precipltates itself into
duration.
Happy are they who have a Tyre in
the heart, and in their minds a music
Which their actions execute. Their
whole life will have been harmony in
unison with the eternal homes.
1t is with our thoughts as with our
doWers-those that are simple in ex-
preston, carry their seed with them;
those that are double through rich and
pomp, charm the mind but produce
nothing.
Few minds are spacious; few even
have vacant place in them. Almost
AL have capacities that are narrow, and
occupied by some knowledge which stops
Lhem up. To enjoy itself and let others
enjoy it, a mind should ever keep itself
larger than It's own thoughts
Present to an ordinary man the
maxim Love your enemies" you may
near him sigh, as he answers that the
saying is divine, and he fears he will
never practice it. The reason is that he
has an enemy, and understands fully
what 1t is to love him, and also what it
is TO hate him.
Learn but one simple fact in science
or the arts each day, and then count |
each days gain by weeks and years, and |
you will store up an amouAt of useful |
knowledge that will surprise you, not |
only by its amount, but by the ease with |
which you will attain it all. Books. |
periodicals, aud papers are cheap, and |
easy to be obtained and it is your own
application that must lay hold of this
Knowledge that is so freely extended to
you, and appropriate and supply 1t to
your own use, and for your own benefit.
AS general matter, indeed, Il al
ways felt myself under obligation to OBJ
serve that law which was given by God
himself from Mount Sinai, in those
solemn words, Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy "a command which
was subsequently renewed and rein
forced by the injunctions Of the Savior
nf mankind Tho cnoaa - |