The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-22
BITS OF WISDOM.
salts for Daily life.

Friendship, like iron, is fragile if ham
mered too thin Saadi,
The gre alter the knowledge the greater
the doubt. Goethe.
lie who boasts a multitude of friends
hath none.-I Aristotle
A ioylcss life is worse to bear than one
of active sorrOw.- Fabcr.
Look ont for the best aspects Of a man
as you do for fine views in the country.
Whoever is in possession of true friend
secs the counterpart of his own soul
Cicero.
No one is so completely in the right that
his adversary is completely in the wrong.
Il Rcnan.
DIR. Lyman Beecher said OF his pulpit eff
forts, that he always roarcd when he had
nothing to say.
Silence is figure of speech, unanswera-
bic, short, cold, but terribly severe. -Thco-
dore Parker.
We are often prophets to others only be-
cause we are our own historians. ~ Madame
Swetchine.
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow.
Bitter grief is loud calm grief is silent -
Auerbach.
For words are wise mems counters. they
do but reckon by them but they are the
money of fools.- Thomas Hobbies.
All sects are different, because they come
from men morality is everywhere the
same because it comes from Cod Vol
tairc.
There is double ignorance, rs the late
Mr.. Mill once observed in Parliament, ig-
norance of the fact that we are ignorant
There is no solitude like that of the So
cicty of unlike, unsympathzng natures,
kept together by external reasCns.-lI. w.
Beecher.
Holmes disposed of bigot at once, when
he compared his mind to the pupil of the
eyc-the more light you let INTO it the more
it contracts.
1t is with narrow-souled people as with
narrow-neclied bottles, the less they have
in the more noise they making in pouring
it out Pope
The saddest mistake in life is that which
a great soul finds it has made when it has
taken little soul into its embrace and is
stung by its bitterness.
The society that is free from manncrism
is always agreeblc to ITSELF whether rough
or refined, as nature loves her own atmos-
phcrc best. -TSumncr Ellis.
A pitiable weakness is that which cannot
accept clearly defined position, and labor
| faithfully and honestly to perform all the
duties contained therein III. w. Beecher.
a good man and a wise man may at
times be angry with the world, at times
grieved for it but be sure no man was
ever disconnected with the world who did
his duty in it. Southey.
No good writer was ever long neglected:
no great man overlooked by men equally
great. Impotence is proof of inferior
strength, and a destroyer of what little
there may be- Lander.
Until every good man is brave, we must
expect to find many good women timid-
too timid even to believe in the correctness
of their own best promptings, when these
would place them in minority.
Nothing really succeeds which is not
based on reality sham, in a large sense, is
never successful in the life of the indi-
vidual, as in the more comprehensive life
of the state, pretenson is nothing and
power is everything. II Whipplc
What we call illusions are often, in
truth, wider vision of past and present
realities willing movement Of mans
foul with larger swOOp of the worlds
forces a movement toward a more as
sured end than the chances of single life.
II George Eliot
The great worries of life are the so-callcd
''litte things" which are from day to day
left unadjusted till they fasten this vic
tim like a net. The men who die of ''over-
work" are not so mnch destroyed by theil
great and useful labors as by the veXatious
trifles which accumulate till they produce
a condition of chronic fever and unrest.
There is nothing that will so disarm and
dcpress certain sensitive natures rs con-
scious inferority of dress. Until degree
| Df Familiarity ..ith tln ,x,nrl1 hnu ~
quircd, or a man has learned that he has a
recognized place in it, his dress either
holds him up in his own self-respect, on
compels him into abject self-contempt. - J.
c. Holland.
PRoCRAsTINATION.
At thirty man suspects hlmselfa fool
Knows II at forty, and reforms his plans;
Al nifty chides his Infamous delay
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve.
In all the magnanimlty of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Young.
When women shall have learned that de-
votion to an idealized man is not her only
object in life, she will have advanced Il
long stride toward the Independence she
has so often craved and never possessed.
To make her existence So large that loving
will not monopolize it, is the secret which
will grant that social equality which will
iNi iN'o q hiiNl " az am Nv
in demanding respect with affection.
BITTER SWEET.
tell You that love is the bltterest sweet
That ever laid hole on the heart Of a man;
A chain TO the soul, and to cheer as n ban,
And bane TO thei brain, and n snare to The
feet.
Ay who shall ascend On the hollow white
wings
or love but TO fall TO fall and TO learn,
Like moth, ana n man, that the lights lure
TO burn,
That the roses have thorns, aad the honey-beC
stings ?-lJoaquin Miller.
SAY IT SHORT.
II you'd strengthen the weak, or curb the toe
strong
Or bold, brave words speak, to right any wrong
| II you've advice or entreaty, rebuke or rctOrt,
Or counsel TO give, say It short, say II short.
II you'd soothe, II you'd cheer, or charm, or In
spire,
Or wake some dull soul with fervor. and fire
III you've Wise word, or kind word, or far-sOund
Ing thought
To echo forever say 1t short, say 1t short.
Lydia NJ. Mlllard.
LIFE MAXIMs.
Fly from the crowd and be TO virtue true.
content with what thou hast, though It b'
To hoard brings hate, nor lofty thoughts pur
sue
He who climbs high endangers many n fall.
tnVy'S shade That ever waits on fame,
And oft the sun that rises It Will hide.
Trace nOtin lie u vast, expensive scheme,