Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-01-28
selections.
Many have suffered by talking, but
few by silence.

Many have suffered by talking, but
few by silence.
As an arrow that sticketh in mans
thigh, so is word within FOOLS belly.
-Admonish friend, it may be he hath
not done it; and if he have done it, that
| he may do it no more.
Let our repentance be lively will, q
| firm resolution. Complaints and mourn
ing over past errors avail nothing.
| -Admonish a friend, for many times ii
| is a SANDER; and believe not Every tale
Jesus tie Son Of Sirach.
There is a certain softness of manner
which, in either man or woman, adds a
charm that almost entirely compensates
for lack of beauty.
johnson used to say, /" He who waits
to do a great deal of good at once, will
never do any"
Introduce changes in your reading
and studies. Who reades but little at a
time, retains that little the better.
-Behearse not unto another that which
is told unto thee, and thou shalt fare
never the worse.
Whether it be friend or foe, talk
not of other mems lives; and if thou
canst without otfense, reveal them not.
When the heart is pure there is hard
" anything which can mislead the under
Standing III matters of immediate personal
concernment
eigh every step you are about to
take whenever passions become involved.
How often do things assume a different
aspect when they are fairly considered.
1t is as great a mercy to be preserved
in health a. to be delivered from sick
ness.
BE deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to
the scorner, and dumb to those who are
mischieyiously inquisitive.
Be not all sugar, or the world will
swallow thee; nor all NORWOOD, or it
will spit thee out
Let us go always beyond the duties
marked. out, and keep them within the
pleasures permitted.
A noble anger at wrong makes all
our softer feelings warmer, as warm
climate adds strength to poison and
spices.
The difference between frmness and
obstinacy is that the former holds opinions,
while the latter is held by them.
Passion is the drunkenness of the
ings, not always comfortable by reason.
To things which you bear with impa-
thence you should accustom yourself, and
by habit you will bear them well
Bible promises are like the beams of
the sun, which shine as freely in at the
window of the poor mans cottage as at
the rich mans palace.
II man has any religion worth hay i!
ing, he Will do his duty and not make
fuss about it. 1t is the empty kettle that
rattlea.
Read not books alone, but men, and
among them chiefly myself if thou find /
anything questionable there, use the com
of severe friend
There arc a thousand pretty, engag-
ing little ways which every person may
put on without being deemed either af-
fected or foppish.
1t is much easier to think right with
nut doing right, than to do right without
thinking right. Just thoughts may, and
often do, fail of producing just deeds /;
but just deeds are sure to beget Just
thoughts.
1t is not until the flower has fallen off
that the fruit begins to ripen. SO in life
it is when the romance is passed that the
practical ugafu lnpss hngiuS
Many Christians, says Beecher, are
ike chesnuts-very pleasant nuts, but
enclosed in very prickly burrs, which
leed various dealings of nature, and her
grip of frost, before the kernel is dis
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