Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-05-14
selections.

positively certain,
selections.
/ Little strokes fell great oaks,
Robes and furred gowns hide all
Forget other, faults; remember
thine own.
/ Great hearts, like the ocean, never
congeal-Blc0R,
They love least that let men know
their love
There Is no worse robber than bad
book.
He that walkc,h with wise men shall
be wise
The blow of friend pains more than
any other.
Happy is the man whose habits are
his friends.
Through tattcred clothes small vices
do appear.
Great minds and great fortunes do
not always go together
Choose wife by your ear rather than
by your eye
There is no better looking-glass
than an old friend.
Religion is as necessary to reason as
reason is to religion.
The less man makes Of himself the
more of man he is.
-ldleness is the nest in which mischief
lays its eggs.
A man without humanity can have
no religion to speak Of
OF all tame animals, tho fattercr 10
the most mischievous.
Moderation is the silken string run
ming through the chain of all the virtues.
BE pure, but not stern; have moral
excellencies, but don't bristle with them.
-lmmodest words admit Of this defense,
That want of modesty is want of sense.
True happiness, if understood,
Consists alone in doing good
To the world no bugbear is 50 great
As want of figure and small estate.
Pride by ignorance is increased:
Those most assume who know the least
Ignorance explained is knowledge
gained,
While Ignorance concealed is ignorance
revealed.
Books should TO one of these four
ends oonduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight or use.
All who can tell the triumphs of
mind
By truth illumed and by taste refined.
Life is a great poem, and religion.
love and music are its sweetest stanzas.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures,
but Virtue consoles us even in our pains
= ColtoH.
A man, living in the activities Of the
century, is "A condensed Me-
thuselah.
"A womans tear softcns mans
heart but her iattery softens his brains.
Our admiration of famous man
lessons upon our nearer acquaintance with
He is well constituted who grieyes
not for what he has not, and rejoiccs for
what he has
Who gives of his superfuity does
good to others who gives of his necessity
does good to himself.
True goodness is like glow-worm !;
1t shines most when no eyes except those
of heaven are upon it.
Let us 20 always beyond the duties
marked out, and keep them within the
pleasures permitted.
"A mans character is frequently treat
ed like a grate-blackencd all over first, to
come out the brighter afterwards.
"A noble anger at wrong makes all our
softer feelings warmer, as a warm climate
adds strength to poison and spices.
To things which you bear with i'm
patience you should accustom yourself,
and by habit you will bear them well
Be deaf to the quarrclsomc blind to
the scorncr, and dumb to those who arc
inquisitivc.
Bible promises are like the beams of
the sun, which shine as freely in at the
window OF the poor mans cottage AZ the
rich mans palace
--Passion is the drunkenness Of the
mind; and therefore i'll its present work
ings, not always comfortable by reason.
Beautiful was the reply of yener-
able man 10 the question whether he was
still in the land Of the living: No; but
! am almost there"
1t is not until the flower has fallen
oft that the fruit begins TO ripen. SO in
life il is when the romance is passed that
the practical usefulness begins
Read not books alone, but men. and
among them chiefly thyself: if thou find
anything questionable there, use the
of a severe friend nchtri-
dion.
Sickness should teach us what vain
thing the world is what vile thing sin
is, what poor thing man is, and what
precious thing an interest in Christ is.
We spend half our lives in making
and waste the poor remainder in
rejecting how easily we might have
avoided them
Those who have resources within
themselves. who can dare to live alone.
want friends the least. but, at the same
time, best know how to prize them the
most
Those whose personal plans of pleas
nre and profit are interrupted by the
nursing showers, should go abroad and
zee how the fields and gardens rejoice at
the benign visitation that promises to re-
new their fertility in the service of man,
1t is impossible for an energetic ma.
lure to move about among men under the
power OF any great central faculty. and |
not electrify them. You may carry a
orch for yourself, but cannot kean tba