Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-04
aense mud Sentiment.

I.,ng,,ge was given US that we might
nj .,nr things To aud of each other.
Great Thoughts aud pure heart-that
:. wh ~ we should eptreat from TOD
re- Iethe.
Heaven h - No. rage like love &. hatred turned,
And be 4 no fury like y WON IN heorned.- lCon-
greve.
b. It'll sad heart, and cease repining;
rehtnd tue cloud Is the sun stil shining Long
fellow.
He that 10 ancient vreaths can bring no more
From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.
John Cleveland.
More tender and more blessed is often
the brooding influence of the sacred dead
than the words of the living.
John Chinaman being asked to take
drink said, "No, whisky make Chinaman
one frst-rate fool" The poor heather
Chinee!
De. Chaplin wittily remarked that in
trying to gain two seconds in getting on
aud off trains, many MN had secured
widows their thirds
little girl, delighted at the singing of
the bobolink, earnestly asked her mother,
"What makes him sing 80 sweet docs
he eat flowers |"
am much more disturbed in society
by the little impression made by real
merit, than by the so often lamented toll
eranca of vice.
What a world of gossip would be pre-
vented ii it was only remembered that a
person who tells you of the faults OF others
intends TO tell others OF your faults.
Life is too much for most. So much of
age, so little of youth living for the
most part in the moment, and dating ex-
istenoe by the memory of its burdens
rAloott
Religion, if it be true, is central truth,
and all knowledge which is not gathered
round it, and quickened and illuminated
by it, is hardly worthy the name.-[Chan-
ming.
1t is great guilt in any man to allow
what mental faculties he may possess to
become rusty from disuse, or to submit
them implicitly to another DIR. McClin-
took.
1t was Coleridge who said of school
master, who was fond of applying the
birch, that it was lucky for the cherubim
"HO siEIl6u nlUI 10 uedFSu tudt tucy
were all heads and wings.
The growth toward the infinite in
goodness must lead men into sympathy
with all classes, and to have true sympa-
thy one must enter fully into the life of
individuals in all conditions.
Christians pray with outspread, because
clean hands, with uncovered head, because
they are not ashamed and without the
aid of a prompter, because we pray from
the heart Tertulian.
A needle is a very little thing, but how
much may be done with it by patient in
dustry Strong garments for daily use,
and delicate intricate workmanship which
the loom can but initiate.
There Is but one stimulant that never
fails and yet never ntoxicates-duty.
Duty puts a blue sky over every man-up
in his heart may be-into which a sky
lark happiness always goes singing.
think it ia the most beautiful and
humane thing in the world so to mingle
gravity with pleasure that the one may
not sink into melancholy nor the other
rise up into wantonness.- Pliny.
AS sometimes small evils, like invisible
insects, infict pains, and single hair
may stop vast machine, the chief secret
of comfort lies in not suffering trifes to
vex one, but in prudently cultivating an
underground of small pleasures, aimee
very few great ones, alas are of long dura-
ton.
A wording was once visited in his i'll
by a well-meaning but dolorous
clergyman, who disfgured his counter
ance and wore face of perpetual mourn
ing. AS his sad visage appeared in the
doorway, the sick man started up and ex-
claimed. why, what's the matter with
you? You look as if your religion didn't
agree with you 7"