The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-07-02

think that to have known one good
old man--one man who, through the
chances and mischances of q long life,
has carried his heart in his hand, like
palm branch, waving all discords into
peacc--helps our faith in God, in our.
selves, and in each other more than many
scrmons.-[G. W. Curtis.
With every JOY connects the possibility
of proportioned pain. Surely love. if
nothing else, inclines the soul to feel its
hclplesness, and be prayerful, to place
its treasures in Fathers hand
1t is disgrace not to be able to do every
thing; but to undetake, or pretend to 10
what you are made for, is not only shane
ful, but extremely troublesome and vexa :
ton rlutaroh.
How often we feel aud act as our mod .
were the atmosphere of the world, it
may be cold frost within us while our
trends is in the glow Of summer sunset;
and We call him unsympathetc, and un.
feeling - George Macdonald
lAilOl amy 10 NV ~ DiN IS~ tIIOI, LuE
former is blank sheet on which we ma
write: but the latter is a scribed Que
from which we must first erase. Ignor.
ance is content to stand still;but although
error move,it goes in the wrong direction
If we had keen vision feeling of al
ordinary human life, it would be like
hearing the grast grow and the sqirrel':
heart beat, and we should die of that
roar which lies on the other side of sill
ence As it is the quickest Of us walk
about we'll welded with Stupidity
George Eliot
1t is not great battles alone that bull
the worlds history, nor great poem'
that mark the generation grow. There il
a still small rain from heaven that ha;
more to do with the blessedness Of nature
and of human natnr than the mighties
earthquake or the lovliest rainbow
Geo Macdonald
1t is the grandeur of all truth which
can occnpy vary high place in human
intrest that it is never absolutely move
to the meanest of minds it exists eter
nally by way of germ or latent principl
in the lowest as well the highest, needipl
to be developed, but never 70 be plantc,
= De Quincy
Curses always recoil on the hand o
him who imprecates them. If you pa
chain around the neck of a slave, tn
o.Lo. ond a. aotans ;tooIf orounI ro,,. o,r,,
Il Emerson. -.. ...
Nothing more impairs authority tina
too frequent or indscreet use of il |
thunder itself was to be contiual, it woui
excite no more terror than the noise q
a mill.
feel am growing old for the want q
somebody to tell me that ] am looking a
young as ever. Charming alsehood! Their
is vast deal of vital air in loveing words
= Lander.
He who seduously attends. pointed,
asks, calmly speaks, cody answers, an
ceases when he has no more to say,
in possession of some Of the best requis
tes of man Lavater.
; Generosity during life is very diHerr
thing from generosity in the hour of deaf
one proceeds from genuine ~iiseralit
and benevolence the other from pfid
or fear Horace Mann.
The world is exigeant. 1t demand
above every thing that every man sha
keep step. He who cannot, falls to III
rear. aud is gradually left behind as N
army moves on.-[u. Il. Stowe.
Man is an animal that cannot long !
, left in safety without occupation II
growth of his fellow nature is apt to ri
into weeds. = IIilliard.
, 1t should seem that incidence itse
would incline a person to be honest, as
requires Infinitely greater pains and col
trivances to be knave.-[Shenstone.
A New York woman has attempte
suicide, giving as reason, "she dreade
moving day TO that degree that life WI
burden to her" --' '.'7
r The first factory in the country f
t the manufacture of steel by the "Barro
| process" said to be quicker aud NOR
. economical than the "Bessemer," hi
commenced operations at Louisville, X,