Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-06-30
Choice Thnnghls.


Tue greatest misfortune Of all is in not
being able to bear misfortune.
RABELAIs had written some esonsiblc pieces
which the world did not regard at all. 81
win write something said he, that they
shall take notice OFF, Aud 30 Do sat dlWu
to writing nonsense
IT belongs to every largo nature, when it
is not under the imms liaa' power of some
strong, unluestioning emotions, to suspect it,
self aud doubt the truih Of its own impre,-
sions, conscious of possibilities beyond itsown
horizon
The ruins of oid friendship are more
melancholy spectacle 70 me than those of des-
olated palaces. They exhibit the heart that
WAS once lighted zap with Joy. all damp and
deserted, and hunted by those birds Of in
omen that only nestle in ruins.
There is seldom liuc of glory written
upon the earth's face but line of suffering
runs parallel with it and they that read the
lustrous syllables of thn one, aud stop not 10
decipher the spotted and worn inscription Of
the other, get the lesser half OF the lesson
earth has TO give.
EVERY day is a little life aud our whole
life is but day repeated whence it is that
old Jacob numbered his life by days Moses
desires to be taught this holy arithmetic, to
number not his years but his days Those
therefore, who dare lose day, are danger
ously wasteiul; those that dare misspend it,
desperate.
A GREAT man OF the last century said .
" lie who lives not 10y rule lives not at all"
Perhaps there is more truth in that assertion
than some are at frat disposed to admit
Confusion greatly hinders all good things
There is 10 example Of success without a
plan. Method is essential to a good habit
and hnparts yigor 10 character
THERE are two things that always pay
working aud waiting. Either is useless
without the other. Both united are inyinci-
bic and inevitably triumphant. lie who
waits without working is simply man yield
ing to sloth and despair. He who works
without waiting is ever fitfu IN his striyings,
| and misses results by impaticnce. lie who
works steadily and waits patiently may have
long journey before him, but at its close he
will find his reward.
Or all the work that produces results,
nne-tenths must be drudgery. There Is no
work, from tho highest to the lowest, which
can be done well by any man who is unwil-
ling TO make that sacrifice. Part Of the way
nobility of the devotion OF the true workman
TO his work consists in the fact that man
is not daunted by finding that drudgery must
be done; and no man can readily succeed in
any work of life without good deal of what,
in plain English, is called pluck.
We condemn gossip-soandal' twin sis
ter--yet il is fault easily committed We
begin by a gentle depreoatory reference to
somebody's infrmity of temper, and we find
ourselves specifying a particular time and
scene, which straightway the one who hears
tells again to some one else with additions,
slight perhaps, but material. Before we
know 1t, we have STIRRED up hornets nest.
This may be done without any more potent
motive than mere love Of fun-and half
the gossip in the social world is of the un.
thinking kind, INDUCED in merely from q
spirit OF drollery, Far worse is that other
sort of talk, which ends in slander and begins
in malice, and which separates friends and
sunders the ties Of years of intercourse with
its sharp and jarring discords. The only
way to avoid the evil, is 10 refrain from max
ing the affairs of our friends a staple article
of conversation in the household. There
are plenty of subjects at hand-let us avoid
personalities.