Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-31
Selections.

No life is pleasing to God that is not
useful to man.
The mothers heart is the child's school
room.- Beecher.
Biography is the home aspect of his
tory Wilmot.
We are governed more by influences
than circumstances.
Blessedness is an eternity older than
damnation. Jean Paul.
Good intentions are like fainting la.
dies-all they want is carrying out.
1t is not the one-idead man, but fife
chief idead man, that is successful.
Dignity and love do not blend well,
nor do they continue long together
[Ovid.
Mans chief wisdom consists in being
sensible of his follies. 81 Rochefoucauld.
To be open to argument and to be
open to convection are two different
things.
Dirt is not dirt but only something in
the wrong place Lord Palmerston.
At 20 years of age the will reigns at
80, the wit at 40, the Judgment Graf
tan.
Ennui is the desire of activity without
the means of gratifying the desire
bancroft.
Conceit not so high a notion of any as
to be bashful and impatient in their pres
ence.-[ Fuller.
Music excites in my mind no ideas,
and binders me from contemplating my
own Sam johnson.
Mean spirits under disappointment,
like small beer in a thunder storm, al
ways turn sour Randolph.
The master of superstition is the peo-
pie, and in all superstition wise men fol-
low fools.-[ Bacon.
Better than fame is still the wish for
fame, the constant trainings for glOri-
Gus strife.-[ Bulwer.
Nothing is more dangerous than an
imprudent FRIEND better is it to deal
with prudent enemy.-[La Fontaine.
Do not ask if a man has been through
college. Ask if a college has been
through him; if he is walking univer-
sity.-[Chapin.
Age and youth look upon life from
the opposite ends of the telescope; it is
exceedingly long; it is exceedingly short.
i Beecher.
Music is a kind of inarticulate, UNI
fashionable speech, which leads us to
the edge of the infinite, and let's us for
moment gaze into that Carlyle.
We may have many acquaintance but
we can have but few friends; this made
Aristotle say that he that hath many
friends, hath nome johnson.
There is joy that pierceth like sorrow:
There is sorrow that maketh not sick,
To-day | am glad to the quick:
| shall laugh at the pain tomorrow.
Dean Swift said 1t is with narrow
souled people as it is with narrow-neCk-
ed bottles-the less they have in them,
the more noise they make in pouring it
out.
A Jealous prohibtionist, on being ask
ed why he signed every pledge that was
presented to him, gave as a reason that
if he broke one, he would have the rest
to fall back on.
A good reader is nearly as rare as a
good writer. People bring their preju-
dices, whether friendly or adverse. They
are lamps and spectacles, lighting and
magnifying the page. [WillmOtt.
A man can never do anything at vari-
ance with his own nature. He carries
within him the germ of his most excep-
tionable action; and if we wise people
make eminent fools of ourselves ON any
particular occasion, we must endure the
legitimate conclusion that we carry a
few grains of folly to our ounce of wis
DOM George Eliot.
A devoutly pious man, who lived some
six miles from the house of worship,
once complained to his pastor of the dis
lance he had to go to attend public wor-
ship. Never mind, said the good minis
ter, remember that every Sabbath you
have the privilege of preaching a sermon
six miles long-you preach the gospel to
all the residents and people you pass.