Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-23
Selections.

Words are the tools which the mind
works.
Outside shows may be purchased,
but real happiness is Of home manufac-
ture.
Actions. looks, words, steps, form the
alphabet by which you may spell charac.
tiers.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews of happy and vir-
tuous life.
"A garment not to be found among
the latest fashions-Mantle of charity.
Every day is little life, and cur
whole life is but a day prepared.
Every good act is charity. A mans
true wealth hereafter is the good he does
to his fellow-men.'
Islander kills threefold; Him that
utters him that is attacked, and him that
hearkens.
Anybody can lead horse to drink
ing place, but nobody can force him to
drink. How different it is with men!
-Whosoever utters kind words is made
happy thereby, while angry words injure
more the one who INDUCES in their use,
than anybody else.
Want of Prudence is too frequently
the want of virtue: nor is there on earth
more powerful advocate of vice than
poverty.
The wealth consists in virtue, and
not in the possession of great estates; and
wisdom consists in understanding. and not
in years. The wisest of men is he who
has the most oivility for others.
Revenge is momentary triumph,
which is almost Immediately succeeded
by remorse, while forgiveness, which is
the noblest of all revenges, entails per-
petusl pleasure.
Nothing is 80 contagious as enthutl-
asm it is the real allegory of the tale of
Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms
brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sin.
certify, and Truth accomplishes no victor
les without it.
Half, at least, of disappointed men
one meets with are victims of ill-grounded
hopes and expectations - persons who
have tried to lean upon others instead of
relying upon themselves.
ALL great questions have been settled
by men in esrnest-by men who have
bound a principle about their hearts
which they come to regard as "part and
parcel" of their being. Little, pedding,
temporizing7policy never yet conferred a
lasting benefit upon the world.
There is no certainty and reliance
about stupid persons, however we'll they
NAV hehave in an ordinary way. Their
character conceals hundred sunken
rocks. You thought you could be sure of
their aid and sympathy in certain set OF
circumstances, and you suddenly find
their faces fixed against you.
1t requires a great effort to subdue
the evil which more or less pervades our
natures, yet, considering the consequences
of giving free scope to the angry passions
1t is far easier to preserve good degree
of amiability, charity, and forgiveness,
than otherwise.
For anger, hate, and malice make
mind and body sick ; and since we find in
others what we carry in our own hearts,
~ VIC ShsC evan "o hOSVhNO
frowns, cross words, kicks, and hate, none
of which adorn lifes pathway with rest,
peace, or happiness.
-Selfshness is poverty-it is the most
utter des'itution of human being. 1t can
bring nothing to his relief; it adds sore
ness to his sorrows; it adds sharpness to
his brains it aggrsvates all the losses he
is liable to endure; and when goaded to
extremes. often turns destroyer and strikes
it's last blow on himself.
"A rule for living happily with others
is to avoid having Stock subjects of dis
putation. 1t mostly happens when PEG.
pie live much together, that they come to
have certain set topics, around which
from frequent dispute. there is such
growth of angry words, mortified vanity
and the like, that the original subject of
difference becomes standing subject for
q1arrel; and there is tendency in all
minor disputes to drift down to it.