Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-06-27
Selections

iSIocS.
Heaven is the place for those who
have failed on earth.
No chains so unworthy to hold yoa
as those of vain regrets.
One loses all the time that he can
employ better. II Rousseau.
Not one false man but does unac-
countable mischief Carlyle.
Means are always in our power;
ends are very seldom So Fielding.
You win find poetry nowhere unless
You bring some with YOU Joubert.
We let our blessings grow mouldy,
and then call them curses.-[ Beecher.
The way Of the world is to like laws,
but to follow customs. = Montaigne.
Our actions are our own; their con-
sequences belong to heaven. p. Fran
els.
Every production of genius must
be the production of enthusiasm. Dis
raeli.
Men. like peaches and pears, grow
sweet little while before they decay.
~ Holmes.
The health of a community is an al
most unfailing index Of its morals. -
Matineau.
Flowers are the sweetest things God
ever made and forgot to put a soul with.
Il Beecher.
1t is only great souls that know how
much glory there is in being good
TSophocles.
Il did think it best not to dispute
where there is no probability of con-
vincing. - Whitefield
The most dangerous of all fattery
is the inferiority of those about US
[Goethe.
Life is like wine he who would
drink it pure must not drain it to the
dregs. IT Sir w. Temple.
He who does evil that good may
come, pays a toll to the devil to let him
into heaven, ~ Hare.
False heads not only disagree with
truths, but usually quarrel among them
selves. Daniel Webster.
1t is impossible to speak against
Christianity without anger, nor to speak
for it without love.
There never was any heart truly
great and gracious that was not also
tender and compassionate South.
Prayer is the peace of our souls, the
stiffness of our thoughts, the rest of our
cares. the calm of our transports.
1t is one thing to wish to have truth
on our side and another to wish to be on
the side of TRUTH Whately.
Dance, dance as long as yo can; we
must travel through life, but why make
H. ! -; TINIir,5 INnolr
! know by myself how incompre-
hcnsible God is, seeing | cannot compre-
bend the parts of my own being. st.
Bernard.
The only vice that cannot be for
given is hypocrisy. The repentance of
a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.-Hazlitt.
God has so made the mind of man
that d peculiar deliciousness resides in
the fruits of personal industry. Viii
berforce.
The root Of sauctity is sanity Am.n
must be healthy before he can be holy
Webathe first aud then perfume. Il Mad.
Swetchine.
- Common-sense is only meditica-
ton of talent Genius is an exaltation
of it the difference is, therefore. in the
degree, not nature, ~ BulweT.
Man is an animal that cannot long
be left IN safety without occupation, the
growth of his fallow nature is apt to run
into weeds. II Hillard
1t should seem that Incidence itself
would incline a person to be honest, as
it requires infinitely greater pains and
c0ntrivances to be knaYe.- IShenstOne.
Let the day have blessed baptism
by giving your first waking thought into
the bosom Of God. The first hour of the
mornings the rudder of the day
Beecher.
Men are often capable of greater
things than they perform. They are
sent into this world with bills of credit,
and seldom draw to their full extent
LWalpole
Curses always recoil on the head Of
him who imprecatcs them. If you put
a chain around the neck of slave, the
other end fastens itself around yourown.
Il Emerson.
Nothing more impairs authority than
a too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If
thunder itself was to be continual, it
would excite no more terror than the
noise of mill.
Il feel | am growing old for want of
somebody to tell me that | am looking
as young as ever. Charming falsehood
There is vast deal of vital air in loving
words Lander.
He who seduously attends, pointed
Il asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers,
and ceases when he has no more to say,
is in possession of some of the best re-
quisites of man. Lavater.
Generosity during life is very diff
fereut thing from generosity in the hour
of death one proceeds from genuine
liberality and benevolence, the other
from pride or fear. Horace Mann.
The world Is exigent. It demands
above everything that every man shall
keep step. He who cannot, falls to the
rear, and is gradually left behind as the
army moves on II. b. Stowe.
With every joy connects the posi-
bility of proportional pain. Surely
love. if nothing else, inclines the soul to
feel its helplessness, and be prayerful, to
place its treasures in Fathers hand.
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