The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-28
Gathered Gems.

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of
recommendation Bacon.
Beauty devoid of grace is mere hook
without the bait.-[Talleyrand.
Man is one thing in that he lis y
another, in that he is ABLE Augustine.
1t is with our judgments as with our
watches, none go just alike, yet each be-
lieves his own.-[Pope.
In this world full often our joys are
only the tender shadows which our SORROWS
cast. Beecher.
When he to whom we speak, and he
who speaks, do not understand, that is
metaphysics. [Voltaire. .iIl4is .
Attention to the mind is the natural
prayer that we make to interior truth that
we may discover it. Malebranche.
A man with but one idea in his head is
sure to exaggerate that to top-heavness,
and thus he loses his equilibrium Aaron
Hill. a ysit
Money is only thus far a standard of
value That which it can measure is per-
ishable; that which it cannot is immortal.
-[Bevee. -t fa
Love, and you shall be loved. All love
is mathematically just, as much as the two
sides of an algebraic equation. Emerson
The beloved of the Almighty are rich
who have the humility Of the poor, and the
poor who have the magnanimity of the
rich. [Saadi. aq.r ai.f 49,.
The labor of the body relieves US from
the fatigues of the mind and this it is
which forms the happiness of the poor
| [Rochefoucauld
| There would not he half the difficulty in
doing right, but for the frequent occur
renee of cases where the lesser virtues are
on the side of wrong.-[J. {. Hare
| The real wants of nature are the measure
| of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure
of the shoe. We can call only the want OF,
what is necessary, poverty. ST. Clement
Life is like roll of costly material pass
ing swiftly through our hands, and we must
embroider our pattern ON as it goes. We
cannot wait to pick up a false stitch or
pause too long before we set another.
The journalists are now the true kings
and clergy; henceforth historians, unless
they are fools, must write not of Bourbon
dynasties and Tedors and Hapsburgs, but
of stamped broad-sheet dynasties and quite
new successive names according as this or
the other editor or combination gains the
worlds ear. Il CARLYLE.
1t is my firm belief that every man has
his genius that is, a certain divine gift OF
prophetic foresight in his innermost soul to
Guide him species of light which, We're
We 10 heed it sufficiently instead of seeking
70 stife and extinguish it by reasoning.
worldly wisdom and prudence, would shed
sudden ray upon those Obscure points at
which roads deyiate. Tlerder
He that has delivered his country nom
oppression, or freed the world from ig-
norsnce and error, can excite the emulation
as a very small number hut he that has
repealed the temptations of poverty, and
disdained to free himself from distress at
the expense of his virtue, may animate
multitudes by his example TO the same
.firmness of heart and steadineas of reso-
luton. johnson, INK. ,,..,..--,,.
People always fancy that we cannot be-
Il come wise without becoming old also but,
in truth, as years accumulate, 1t is hard to
i keep ourselves as wise as we We're. Man
becomes, in the different stages of his life,
indeed a different being; but he cannot say
= that he will surely be better as he grows
, onward and in certain matters, he is rs
likely TO be right in his Goth as in his Goth.
l-[Goethe. n. ..1 49,.