Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-10-22

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1t is easier TO blame than TO do better.
There is no good in preaching TO the
hungry,
Forgive myself nothing, and others
much.
What come from the heart goes to the
heart.
Take the world as it is, not as it
ought to be.
Revenge converts a little right into 8
great wrong,
Where the hedge is lowest the devil
leaps over.
1t is not easy to straighten in the oak
the crook that grows in the sapling.
lie who tells all he knows will also
tell what he does not know
A truly great man never puts away
the simplicity Of a child.
Life is conundrum which the sharp
est wit has to give up.
1t is less pain to learn in youth than
10 be ignorant in age.
Days are lost in lamentations over the
loss of days.
He who blackens others, does not
whiten himself.
Charity gives itself riches, but coyet-
business boards itself poor.
Bcne.solance is allied to few vices !;
selfshne. - TO few virtues.
There cannot be a greater treachery,
than first to raise eoufid ence, and then
deceive it.
There is no vice that doth so cover n
man with shame as to be found false and
pcriidious-
Never condemn friend unheard, or
without letting him know his accuser or
his crime
An hor ,est man is believed without an
oath, for hts reputation swears for him.
Cast no dirt into the well that has
given you water when you were thirsty.
The greatest glory is not in never fall
ling, but i'll rising every time We fall,
If twice mans age you would fulfil,
let reason guide you, not your will
1t is true of many persons that their
memory Is nothing but a row of hooks to
hang up grudges on
Volatility of words is carelessness in
actions; words are the wings of actions
ihcattr.
( -Calumny is like the brands flying
from a large fire, which quickly go out il
Won do not blow them
None should. despair, because God
can help them None should presume,
because God can cross them.
Men Of the noblest disposition think
themselves the happiest when others share
their happiness with them.
Many have puzzled themselves about
the origin Of evil | observe there is evil
and that there is a way to escape it, and
with this | begin and end.
Many persons fancy themselves
friendly when they are only otiicious
They counsel not so much that you
should besome wise as that they should b.
recognized as teachers of wisdom.
A true friend is not born every day
il is best to be courteous. to all, intimate
with few; for though perhaps we may
have less cause of JOY, | am sure we shall
have less occasion for sorrow.
i know Of no great expounder OF
moral principle, | know of no eloquent
teacher of divine truth, who is more use
full in Gods world than a Business mar
{ that carries his religion into his business
J., The biggest aristocrats, as well as the
most diSagrceable people in the world, are
persons who, without education or cul
tura, have by mere luck, come into posses
sion of few thousand dollars.
If the secret of all regenerate hearts
could be laid open, we should doubles.
view with a mixture of establishment and
. gratitude the quantity of benefit which
has been and which is effected in tn,
world by the familiar converse, and ever
by the silent looks, of truly good men,
BiSIop JeJb.
Small acts of kindness, how pleasant
: and desirable do they make life. Every
r dark object is made light by them, and
every tear of sorrow is brushed away
When the heart is sad, and dependency
!, sits at the entrance of the soul, trifine
Kindness drives away despair and makes
; the path cheerful and pleasant.
Not alone to know, but to act ac
cording to thy knowledge, is thy destina
ton; proclaims the voice of my Utmost
soul. Not for indolent contemplation and
study of myself, nor. for brooding over
= emotions of piety-no, for action was ex.
: istence given thee; thy actions, and thy
actions alone, determine thy WORTH
fichte.
{ Though the world is crowded with
, scenes of calamity, we look upon the gen.
eral mass of wretchedness with very little
regard, and fix our eyes upon the state OF
particular persons, whom the eminence
of their qualities marks out from the
multitude; as, in reading an account OF
battle, we seldom reflect on the vulgar
heaps of slaughter; but follow the hero
with our whole attention, through all the
varieties of his fortune, without thought
of the thousands that are falling around
him-,IohnS0R.
A wholesale raid with bags and
wagons was made on G. A. kilburn's
orchard, in Irasburgh, few days since,