The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-02
Gathered Gems.

Great thoughts proceed from the heart.
Unconscious is life's hottest shrine.
Without calmness it is utterly impossible
to show forth consistent action
The hapiest women, like the happiest ma
tons, have no history. George Eliot.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts.
To believe in the heroic makes HEROES
| [Disra,li.
Let tn, philosophers say what they will,
happiness is the elixir of life, that makes
us young in heart if not in person.
When a noble life has prepared old age
it is not the decline that it recalls, but the
first days of Immortality. Il Madame De
Stael.
A kind expression of countenance can
make the most homely pleasing-an honest
heart and friendly acts make the dullest
lovable.
| Let us make our account with the actual
rather than seek excuses for self-indulgence
in pensivc in preference of something that
might have BEEN Morley.
How the poor child is worried, on whom
but little spark of vanity is discovered,
and yet what poor miserable creature is
the man who has no vanity !-[Goethe.
knowledge begins with the particular, is
endless and formless, can never be compre-
hended, or at least but dreamily, and thus
remains exactly the opposite of faith
Thoughts come into our minds by aven-
ues which we never left open, and thoughts
go out of our minds through avenues which
we never voluntarily opened.-[ Emerson.
However deeply the violet may be hid
den, its perfume betrays il, and leads to its
discovery. 1t is the same with woman,
those only are neglected who are not worth
the trouble of seeking.
Although men are accused for not know
ing their own weakness, yet perhaps rs few
know their strength. 1t is in men as in
soils, where sometimes there is vein of
gold which the owner knows not of.
The great make us feel, first of all, the
Indifference of circumstances, They call
into activity the higher perceptions and
subdue the low habits of comfort and lux
ury but the higher perceptions find their
objects everywhere; only the low habits
need palaces and banquets. - Emerson.
A great many people seem to miss their
vacations because their bodies do not hap
pen TO fit their souls. This is one of the
advantages of middle age; people have got
used to their bodies and to their faults /;
they know how to use them, and they do
not expect too much Miss Thackeray.
am not going to undcrvalue the charm
of wisdom, nor the majestic joy which
comes from loving principles of right; but
if | could only have one of them, give me
the joy of the affections my delight in
others, theirs in me, the joy of delighting
rather than the delight of enjoying. - The
odore Parker.
In faith, everything depends on the fact
of believing; what is believed is perfectly
indifferent. Faith is profound sense of Sc
curity for the present and future, and the
assurance springs from confidence in an
immense, all-powerful, and inscrutable BE
ing. The firmncss of this confidence is the
one grand point; but what we think of this
Being depends on our other faculties, OF
even on circumstances, and is wholly in
different t Goethe.
Thoughts seem occasionally to have a
life of their own-a life independent-some-
times they are even stronger than the think
ers, and draw them relentlessly along.
They seize hold of outward circumstances
with their strong grip. How strangely a
dominant thought sometimes runs through
whole epoch of ife!-[Miss Thackeray.
Voltaire rated literature as it ought to be
rated. rs below action; not because written
speech is less of force, but because the
speculation and criticism of literature makes
7 less demand than the conduct Of great at
7 fairs, on qualities that are rare in combina'
ton, ON temper, foresight, and strength O.
character. Morley