Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-07
selections.


To be happy is not the purpose OF
our being happy but to deserve happiness.
I Firche.
-Ihave e-proof, perennial enjoymsnts
called employments.-J Jean Paul Richter.
"A day laborer is better off than a
who always has gold key
tied to his heart Auebach.
Repentance without amendment is
like continual pumping in ship, with
out stopping the leaks.-[Palmer.
Mankind one day serene and free appear;
The next day they're cloudy, suilen and severe
-[Gsrth.
When man has done something to
delight the world, the world will thence
forward take care that he shall not do 1t a
second time Goethe.
Everything that looks to the future,
elevates human nature for never is life
so low, or SO little, as when occupied with
the present. Landon.
-Inviolable fidelity, good humor, and
complacency of temper, outlive all the
charms of fine face and make the decays
of it invisible [Tattler.
Wit is not leveled so much at the
muscles as at the heart and the latter
will sometimes smile when there is not q
single wrinkle on the cheek Lyttleton.
Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the
most sui lime speculations for never in
tending to go beyond speculation. it costs
nothing to have it magnificent Burke.
When I see the elaborate study and
ingen uity displayed by women in the pur-
suit of trifes, I feel no doubt of their ca
pacity for the most herculean undertake
iugs.-[Juli Ward Howe.
Never overwhelm your friends by
begging them to make themselves at
home or they will soon wish they were
there. Show by your actions rather than
by your words that you are glad to see
them.
AS it respects general habits, parent
can scarcely teach a child more valuable
art than dispatch without hustle; nor can
any one that values his time, cultivate a
more valuable one for himself
| There are three things which can IN
no wise be used for good-malice, envy
and folly; and there are three things that
can by no means be employed for evil
humility, contentment and liberality.
DO not talk about yourself or your
family to the exclusion of other topics
What if you are clever and little more
so than other people, it may not be that
other folks will think so however they
ought to do.
Notice in the seed the germ of The
tree Cut it open study it under the
microscope. Root, trunk, branches, leaves
are all there So in the Christians hear
is planted the germ of all that makes 6
son of God.
I have known folks who have never
committed blunder, whose hearts are al
dry as dust; and others who have con
stantly transgressed, whose sympathie'
were as warm and quick as those of {
angel Celia Burleigh.
"A woman who has reached the enc
of youth must not suppose that she ha
any further concern with passion-no
even with vanquishing it. Her strength
must henoeforth lie in calm, not il
courage Madame Guizot.
There is nothing so graciously in
clined toward us as God and our owl
conscience, because no other knows tn
manner to which things happen within
Us. and the inner workings of our souls
i Rachel Varnhagen Won Ense.
According to some classes of theolo
eians, it is necessary for God to wind ~
his watch from time to time, or it woul'
stop outright. According to their view
He WAS not far-sighted enough to ma Ike
perpetual notion Leibditz.
-Yon all know some true Christian
You have never, it is true, seen one wht
in everything comes up to the divin'
IDEAL There is, and always will be, il
some points. a falling short; yet yo'
know that the Christian has life within
him which the world has not.