Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-07-23
selections.


You add ten fold to the weight o.
your troubles by impatienoe,
Heaven gives US friends to bless the present scene
Resumes them to prepare Us Ton the next -.
To hau. Of heavenly truth admission wsufss thO'
on Kaowlease stands without, while love may
enter in. lh' q fff''s"'
Happiness grows at our own firesides
and is not to be picked in the strangers
gardens,
In matters Of conscience, first
thoughts are best. In matters Of pru'
dence, last thoughts are best,
-Speculations about the Gods are sim
ply speculations about the opinion men
form about the Gods.-Plato.
To do good. TO advance the welfare Of
others, TO add to their happiness is all the
reward noble nature cares for.
Socrates, when asked what was the
best mode Of gaining high reputation,
replied, TO be what you appear.
Guilt Is that which duels the courage
OF the bold, ties the tongue OF the elo-
auent and makes greatness itself sneak
and lurk and behave itself poorly.
Prosperity and adversely equally try
the consistency of the human soul. III,
who is inspired by real magnanimity will
best display it in adversely,
Open your heart to sympathy, but
close il to dependency. The flower
which opens to receive the dew shuts
against the rain.
Music is the silver key 10 the fountain Of toars,
Where the spirit drinks till the brain runs Wild
The soitest grave Of u thousand fears
Whore their mother, care, like sleepy child,
Is laid asleep on flowers. -.Shely,
We may easily forget the important
events OF yesterday, but cannot forget the
simple incidents Of childhood, or obliter-
ate the earliest impressions. How i'm
portaut the first impressions upon the soul
Of young immortal.
-Quarrels would never last long If the
fault were only on one side.
Silly and worthless people take the
most pains TO adorn themselves, as in the
animal world the insects are gaycst in
colors.
He who tells MI he knows will also
tell what he does not know.
Cast no dirt into the well that has
given you water when you were thirsty
The best thing we can do is 10 max,
our hearts better: to see that they ar,
illed so full of all that is true and kind
that there shall be no room for hatred
and folly to SOW the seeds Of regret and
rem0rse.
"A contritc heart unlocks our inward
senses, and makes us see, and hear, and
feel the things which could no more b.,
seen, heard or felt before, than man i'll
4 deep sleep can hear, and see, and fee
the things that are said and done about
him
Every young mon should remember
try. The valgar and useless idler, who's,
energies of body and mind are ru,ting for
want of occupation may look with scorn
it is praise; his contempt is honor.
BE more prudent for your children
than perhaps you have been for yourself.
When they, too. are parents, they will
initiate you, and each of you will have
prepared happy generations, who will
transmit, together with your memory, the
worship OF your memoIy.
Love receives it, death-wound from
disgust, and is buried by oblivion.
What deduction from reason can ever
apply TO love: Love is very contradic,
ton of all the emblcms of our ordinary
nature--it makes the. proud man meek
the cheerful sad-the high spirited, true