Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-04
Fem Spaffers.

True to the core-A good apple.
Natures tailoring-A potato patch.
Flowery speech" Good rs wheat"
He that tells secrets is anothcr's servant.
An ounce of help is worth pound Of pity
A great fortune is great slavery.
Current views-Thosc from the river
May not II hermit call his cave man-shun?
A quilting party is now styled a ''picce -"
jubilee.
Prayer puriiics; it is a self-preached SER
mon.
The man who carries everything before
him. Tho waiter. Iruu. 4
Sense must be very good indeed to be ms
good as nonsense.
Heaven is never deaf but when mans
heart is dumb.
The surest way not to fail is to determine
to succeed.
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest
things.
For what port Is man bound during court
shipP Bound to lIavre.
In all thy quarrcls leave open the door OF
reconciliation.
Surely people must know themselves, 50
few ever think about anything else.
The pathetic almost always consists in tho
detail Of little circumstances.
An end always to be kept in view-Divi-
dend.
The craving for sympathy is the common
boundary line between joy and sorrow.
Can n gentleman who sees lady home
under an umbrella be fitly designated u rain.
beau?
Well, wife, you can't say ever contracted
bal habits. No, sir. You generally expand
them.
To bring forward the bad actions of others
to excuse our own, is like washing ourselves
in mud.
The essence Of knowledge is having it, tc
apply it; not having it, to confess youy igno
rance.
We have just religion enough to make "a
hate, but not enough to make us love one
another.
Most of the shadows that cross our patti
through life are caused by standing in oul
own light.
Passionate persons are like men whO stanC
on their heads; they see all things the wronl
way. ... r.....-
My dear sir. said o candidate accostins a
WagEish citizen on election day, | am yer!
glad to SEQ you. You needn't be, replied thu
wag. I've voted.
Education cannot create it can only hell
to develop to reality the previously .eIisten
possibility it can enly help to bring 10 Jigh
the hidden life.
The essence OF true nobility is neglect o
self. Let the thought Of self pass in, and the
beauty ofa great actionis gone like the hoon
from soiled flower.
Hypocrisy is folly. 1t is much easier, safe
and pleasanter to be the thing which a maj
aims to appear than to keep up the appear
ance of bsing what he is not.
Fine sensibilitiss are like woodbines, de
lightful luxuries of beauty to twinesround
solid, upright stem of understanding; bu
very poor things il allowed to creep alonI
the ground. .e4
A lady asked her doctor it he did not thinI
the small bonnets the ladies wore had q ten
dency to produce congestion of the brain
OH no, replied the doctor. Women whc
have brains don't wear thom.
The shadows of tho mind are like those o
the body. In the morning of lifo they lie be
hind US; at noon we tIample then unde
our feet and in the evening they stretel
long into deepening shadows before US.
The pioneer commands of the spring f1s b
ions are given in n Cincinnati paper after thi
manneri No sleeves, but gloves with sil
buttons; languid expression OF face an,
the oysS win be worn very much closed