Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-13
Selections.

BE blind to scorn.
Talk less, think more.
Be dumb to the inquisitive.
Be deaf to the quarrelsome.
Give your son trade rather than
fortune.
o To lose your health--drink to other
peoples.
Happiness consists in being contented
with what we have.
Faith without charity, like light
without heat, can yield no fruit.
, He that studieth revenge keepeth his
own wounds green.
O-There is no man suddenly either ex-
cellently good or extremely evil.
There is not a string attuned to
mirth but hath its chord of melancholy.
Base envy withers at anothers Joy
, and hates that excellence it cannot reach.
Better is a dinner of herbs where
love is than stalled OK and hatred there
with. =
When thou doest aims, let not thy
left hand know what thy right hand
doeth.
Many a mans views have at first
been nothing worse than good qualities
ran wild.
Time destroys the speculations OF
man, but it confirms the Judgment of
nature.
Call him wise whose actions, words
and steps are all clear because to q clear
aohy.
No person ever got stung by hornets,
who kept away from whore they were. 1t
is so with habits.
There is no folly equal to that OF
throwing away friendship in world
where friendship is so rare.
Friendship is vase, which if once
fawed, it might as well be broken, for il
can never be trusted afterwards.
1t is no sin to show ones righteous
ness, but it is sin, indeed, to be right
eous for show.
.. Harsh words are like hailstones il
summer. If melted they would fertilizt
the tender plants they batter down.
Many ways of happiness have beer
discovered, but all agree there is none 81
pleasant as loving and being loved.
The violet grows low and cover
itself with its own tears, aud of all th'
flowers yields the sweetest fragrance
Such is humility
Truth is immortal The sword can
not pierce it, fire cannot consume it, pris
ons cannot incarcerate it, famine canuo
starve it.
-Misfortuues are moral bitters, which
frequently restore the healthy tone o
mind after it has been cloyed and sick
SSened by the sweets of prosperity.
MIXTURE il a book of sweet and glow
ing purity, and on every illuminated
page the excellence and goodness of Go'
are divinely portrayed. ~
Always be good natured if you car
A few drops of oil will do more to facili
tate the movement of the most stubborn
machinery than rivers OF vinegar.
A modest person seldom fails to gai
the good will of those he converses with
because nobody envies a man who doe
not appear to be pleased with himself.
--Blushing is a sign that something c
the angel is left to woman, beautiful
a the eye and bespeaking the purity of tn
%beart. When woman ceases to blush sh
has lost her greatest charm q
although it may not be in you
power" said Marcus Aurelous, ito be
naturalist, poet, an orator, or matht
matician, it is in your power to be a vii
tuous man, which is the best of ALL"
Q There are souls which fall frol
Heaven like flowers but ere the pure an
fresh buds can open. they are trodden
the dust of the earth and lie soiled an
crushed under the foul tread of som
brutal hoof
III thon art rich, then show the grea
ness of thy fortunes; or. what is bette
the greatness Of thy soul, in the meekne,
of thy conversation. conde-cend to men
low estate support the distressed an
patronize the neglected. Be great
MARKETs.--In the Plattsburgh marke
butter is 32 cents cheese II; pork ST.
8 apples $3.50 to S4 !; beans So; hay $40
$12; coal $12, wood IS to sc.
On Saturday last. one hundre
packages of butter were shipped frol
vergennes, weighing over $500 pound
Prices ranged from 30 to SO cents ps
pound. The vermonter says that ''dow
60 the prices" is the motto among Il