Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-05
Selections.
Success is his who works hard
enough for it.

Success ls his who works marc
enough for it.
1t is bis whole life,and not few Incl
dents of it, that proves the man.
There is few who practice charity
but the many oonfne themselves to re-
commencing it.
"A pure faith will never hold its own
unless it be associated with pure prac
teal charity.
There are something's that cannot be
uttered-they can only be felt in the
revereut solemnity and speechless adora'
ton of silence.
Pride is the ape of charity. Charity
feeds the poor; SO does pride. Charity
builds a hospital; so does pride; but
charity gives the giver the glory to God
pride takes her glory from man.
Wisdom is the most excellent of all
our possessions, having the promise OF
this life and that which is to come.
God has a tender love for all who
earnestly seek the truth; and if they per-
severe, his grace will make them success
full
Where there is no Christian Sabbath,
there is no Christian morality and with
out this free institutions cannot long be
sustained.
False friends are like our shadow,
keeping close to us while we walk in the
sunshine, but leaving us the instant We
cross into the shade.
We become familiar with the out.
sides of men, as with the outsides OF
houses, and think we know them, while
we are ignorant of all that is passing
within them.
Our pride rests, not so much upon
what we are, have been, or have accom-
plished, as upon what we fondly imagine
we will be, or will at some future time
accomplish.
All human wisdom to devine is folly,
This truth the wisest man made melancholy.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Ofhim that hears it, never in the tongue
OF him that makes it.
If you are wise man, you will treat
the world as the moon treats it. Show it
only one side of yourself, seldom show
yourself too much at time, and let what
you show be calm. cool and polished.
But look at every side of this world.
For stern. close thought the mind
must be schooled by habits of close ap-
plication, and this is more rare than
one would Imagine; for, Notwithstanding
what is called application in our public
schools. the mind is SO little employed in
it that few men ever know how to isolate
themselves from present objects enough
70 think readily, and the habit is easily
lost.
No enjoyment, however inconsider-
able, ia confined TO the present moment.
A man is the happier for life from having
made once an agreeable tour, or lived for
any length If time with pleasant people,
"r enjoyed any considerable interval of in
uOcent pleasure,
People who are innocently cheerful
and good humored are very useful in the
world. They maintain peace and hsppi-
uess, aud spread thankful temper
around them. 1t has been well said that
I'VE have no more right to fling an uu-
necessary shadow over the spirits of those
whom we may casually meet than we
have TO fling stone and break their win
dows"
The present holds in it both the
whole past and the whole future; as the
Life-tree IRdrasil, underwriting. many
toned. has its roots dawn deep in the
death kingdom, among the oldest death
dust of men, and with its boughs reaches
always beyond the stars; and in all times
and places is one and the same Life-tree
Face Satan when you must, fly him
when you may. Those who know evil
best fly farthest, hide deepest, dread its
approach, shudder at the thought of its
pursuit. 1t is terribly subtle. The
bravest are not brave before it; the strong
est are not strong; the purest are not
pure. No one il safe until personal agony
has made him hate evil worse than death.
Love and Passion These are too often
They are quite distinct.
Love elevates and refnes, passion de-
grades and depresses; love enlarges the
heart, passion nsrrows the mind. And
even in the case of what is called passion
ate love, there i too much which is of the
earth, earthly. Pure affection Is senti
nent free from faint of any kind, aud is |
AZ rare as pure charity.