Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-24
Selections.


time.
Selections.
Discretion in speech is more than elo-
quence.
The legitimate end of fiction is the
conveyance of truth.
ALL novelty is the effect of wonder
upon Ignorance.
-Tediousness in writer is the most
fatal Of all faults.
"A man made happy by his vanity is,
past all doubt, fool.
"A quiet mind, like other blessings, is
more easily lost than gained.
Every ones faults are not written on
his forehead.
--Civility is kind of charm that at
tracts the love of all men.
Silent deeds are better thar unprofit-
able words.
ALL human virtues increase and
strengthen by the practice and experience
of them.
The moment man is satisfied with
himself, everybody else is dissatisfied with
him.
IF man is honest and truthful,
there is no necessity for him to say
much about it.
Almost as rare as genius itself is the
power of feeling where true genius lies.
The greatest difficulties are always
found when we are not looking for them.
Little things are not valued but when
they are done by those who can do
greater.
He that merely makes book from
great
The contention of criticism is to find
the failings of moderns, and the beauties
of the ancients.
"A man never has the least difficulty
in finding a friend, except when he needs
me.
Seq that each hours feslings,
thoughts and actions are pure and true,
then will your life be such.
Front bravely the objects of your
-, worst apprehension, and your stoatness
ggill commonly make your tears ground
less.
NO boy ever grew up to manhood a
total abstainer from Intoxicating drinks
and lived to repent it.
You have ne business TO have any
business with other peoples business; but
mind your own business, and that is
business enough.
Men are Estimated by their mass Of
character. A block of tin may contain a
grain of silver, but still it is tin.
Hate not opinions for being contrary
TO thine own. 1t is not certain but that
o thou thyself may be in the wrong.
-Burkitt beautifully observes, in his
Journal, that some persons would never
have had share in his prayers but for
the injuries they had done him.
The art of satisfying our desires lies
not in indulging, but in suppressing
them.
-Modesty doubles the beauties which
o are seen, and gives credit and esteem to
all that are concealed.
"A good heart is indispensably neces-
sary to the.knowledge of truth; he who
BE careful of your health, girls.
Don't mind being called "old fogy" be-
cause you wrap yourselves up well and
never venture out in thin shoes. Better
be an old fogy than young invalid.
Wealth bears more heavily on talent
than on poverty under gold mountains
and thrones, who knows how many
spiritual giant may lie crushed and buried.
Kind words are among the brightest
flowers of earth they convert the humb-
lest home into paradise; therefore use
them, especially around the fireAide cir
Gle.
Upon him who has humbly sought
his post of duty, and who bravely works
in il, we may be sure God looks down
with appreciation, and often sees more
worthy symbols in the coarse apron of
the blacksmith than in stars and eoronets
The following words of franklin are
I'D applicable to the debtors of the present
day as they were. at the time when they
were written 1.-THE sound of your ham
mer at five in the morning, or nine at
night, hesrd by creditor, makes him
easy six mouths longer; but if he sees
you at billiard table, or hears your voice
at a tavern, when you should be at work,
he will send for his money the next day"
i pity from my heart the unhappy
man who has a bad wife. She il shackles |
on his feet, palsy to his hands, a burden
on his shoulder, smoke to his eyes, vine
gar to his teeth, thorn to his side, a |
dagger to his heart Osborne.
Common speakers have only one set
of ideas, and one set of words to clothe
them in; and these are always ready
at the mouth, as people come faster out of
a church when it's almost empty, then
when a crowd is at the door.-iSaoiT.
VISIT YOUR SCHOOLS - When will
parents come to regard it as a duty they