Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-29
Selections.

ALL good principles must stagnate
without mental activity.
To have our hearts weaned from the
world is the way really to enjoy it.
Trust not him who seems more
anxious TO give credit than to receive
cash.
1t requires more grace to suffer pa
tiently than to serve laboriously.
To have our hearts weaned from the
world is the way really to enjoy it
Riches got by fraud are dug out of
ones own heart, and destroy the mind.
ALL human virtues increase and
strengthen by the practice and experience
of them.
DR.. johnson used to say, "He who
waits to do a great deal of good at once,
will never do any"
True religion cheers adversely. tenn
pers prosperity and animates US with hope
Ill the hour of death.
See that each hours feelings, actions
and thoughts are pure and true, then
VIII your life be such.
W htTb t.lIi Ouittb tt iOIiu 81 ilipH,I
to kindle all the best affections, as the
Father of the universe and the Author of
all good
To excel in anything valuable is
great, but to be above conceit on account
of ouil accomplishment is greater.
Unjust riches curse the owner in
getting, in keeping, and transmitting.
They curse his children III his fathers
memory.
Only a gentle breeze. But how
many aching brows hath it famed, how
many hearts cheered by its gentle touch
Only sentinel! And yet one more
soul had passed from it's earthly tene-
ment to meet its reward at the hands Of a
merclful God.
There is "a certain softness of manner
which, i'll either man or woman, adds a
charm that almost compensates for the
lack of beauty.
Only frown. Bat it loft a sad
dreaI'y ache in that childs heart, and the
quivt ring lips and fearful eyes told how
keenly he felt it.
We should give as we receive, cheer
fully, quickly and without hesitation, for
there Is no grace in benefit that sticks to
the # myers.
The first degree in the school of folly
is to think ourselves wise; the second, to
tell Others SO I; the third, to despise all
good counsel.
threat principles are at the bottom OF
all things; but to apply them to daily life
many little precautions and incidents are
needed.
When the heart is pure, there il
scarcely anything that can mislead the
understanding in matters of immediate
personal Government.
Misery and ignorance are always the
cause of great evils. Misery is easily ex.
cited to anger, and ignorance soon yields
to perfidious counsels,
There is one single fact which one
may oppose to all the wit and argument
of intidelity, viz: that no man ever on
his death bed repented of being Christ
ian
If bee stings you, will yousgo Il
the hive and destroy it2 Would not {
thousand come upon you? If you re
ceive a trifling injury, don't be anxiou
to revenge it. Let it drop.
Only drop Of ink And yet it car
ried the news of death to anxious ones al
home, and caused tears of anguish K
trickle down the fun owed cheek of q
widowed mother.
The perfume of a thousand rose
soon dies, but the pe.in caused by one o
| their thOrna ram aina 1ov.v otter A ooI
dened remembrance in the midst o
mirth IL like that tho IN among roses.
False happiness renders men ster,
and proud, and thu It happiness Is neve
communicated. T. no happiness render
them kind and that happiness il Away