Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-09
SelecG1OnS.
A word to the wlse-remain SO.

A word to the WlSe-remaih So
Never try to gather hay with an oily
rake.
Proud hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren.
"A torn jacket is SOON mcnded, but
harsh words bruise the heart of child.
The crown of all real manliness, of
all Christian manliness, is purity.
To be very attractive to all sort- OF
diff rent people, one must have great
readiness of sympathy.
-Heaven-gates are not SO highly arched
as princes palaces; they that enter there
must go on their knees.
-"Grandeur of character" says Chan.
ming, ''lies wholly in fo,ce of soul"
The world has learned that thing is
not necessarily good because il is dry.
There is no religion in chips.
There is greater depravity 10 not re-
pentiug of sin when it has been commit
ted, than in committing it at first.
Prosperity is able to be impartial. and
restores the too great admiration OF con-
temporaries to the proper degree.
Depth, inwardness, is everything
and the greatest joy on earth must be the
power to create an immortal work.
Mature has written a letter of credit
upon some mems faces, which is honored
almost wherever presented.-L Thackeray
-Ehlert expresses truth boldly when
he says that "the question OF morality IN
art is only question of the second rank.
In youth, women are our idols ; at
ripe age, our companions; in old age, our
nurses, and in all ages, our friends Ba'
con.
In all ages the public has endeavored
to terrorize the artist, to reward the one
who entertained ito turn its back on the
one who sought to elevate it.
Divide two hearts as you will, still
there is magnetic intelligence through
life, which, if they were ever truly at
| tached, vibrates to the heart and brain OF
each.
The things that belong to man. must be
understood, in order that it may be loved
the things that belong to God, must be
loved in order to be understood.
There is nothing to be said against 8
conviction which results from thoughtful
consideration of the subject, let it be in
favor of which side it will, it may be mar.
row, but will be honest.
The enthusiast Ehlert says Could
I, for one month of rapture, become such
y poet as Beethoven, l should be ASHAMED
if had nothing better to offer for it than
the beggary of my whole life"
Holmes tells us,-"Men are tattoed
with their special beliefs, like so many
South Sea Islanders; but real human
heart, with divine love in it, beats with
the same glow under all earth's thousand
tribes"
No enjoyment is transitory; the i'm
preston which it leaves is permanent
and what is done with diligence and
| -ffort, communicates to the spectator 8
hidden force, of which we cannot say how
far its influence may reach.-Goethe.
Round the caoe of sudden came the sea,
And the snn looked over the mountains rim
And straight was path of gold for him,
And the need of world of men for me.
Browning.
All human wisdom to devine is folly;
This truth the wisest man made melancholy,
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
OF him that hears it, never in the tongue
OF him that makes it.
1t is said of Neander, the learned lee
turer and ecclesiastical historian of Ger
many, that his sister had to watch him
daily to see that he did not start to the
University with bis night cap on. or with
his study gown and slippers; aud it was
not uncommon for him, when moving
aside from the jostling crowd in the street.
70 step Intu une queer, ~hor~ i.o walked
on and on, seemingly unconscious where
he stepped.