Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-08
Words of Wisdom.


That thou mayest injure no man, doye-like be,
And serpent-like, that none may iniure thee.
Choose your friend early because
life is short.
Of all the paths that lead to woman's
love, pity is the straightest.
History makes haste to record great
deeds, but often neglects good ones.
Prefer loss before unjust gain; for
that brings grief but once, this forever.
Provision is the foundation of hospi-
tality, and thrift is the fuel of magnif-
cence.
What is becoming is honest, and
whatever is honest, must always be be-
coming.
The flights of the human mind are not
from enjoyment to enjoyment, but from
hope to hope.
The seeds of repentance are sown in
youth by pleasure, but the harvest is
reaped in age and pain.
Frequent disappointments teach us to
mistrust our own inclinations, and
shrink even from VOWS our hearts may
prompt.
Happiness is in taste and not in things;
and it is by having what we love that we
are happy, not by having what others
find agreeable.
There is in every human countenance
either history or a prophecy, which
must sadden, or at least soften, every re-
fecting observer.
The world is all title page; there is no
contents; the world is all face; the man
who shows his heart is hooted for his
nudities, and scorned.
The bird of wisdom flies low and seeks
his food under hedges; the eagle himself
would be starved if he always scared
aloft and against the sun.
Too much attention cannot be be-
slowed on that important, yet much
neglected branch of learning-the knowl-
edge of mans ignorance.
The reasonableness of a project ought
to be it's foundation; and hope, the lad
der only which conducts the architect to
the heights of the building.
Meekness and courtesy will always
recommend the first address, but soon
fall and nauseate, unless they are asso-
ciated with more sprightly qualities.
1t often depends on trife, not more
than the toss up of a penny, whether a
msn should raise himself to riches and
honor, or pine away in misery and want
till he dies.
1t is a secret known to few, yet of no
small use in the conduct of life, that
when you fall into a mans converse
tion, the first thing you should consider
is, whether he has greater inclination to
hear you, or that you should hear him.
The love of display which results
in vulgar ostentation is the result of
selishness, of desire to excite the
envy of others rather than the wish to
share benefits with them-an effort to
appear great, without striving to be
great in reality.
A mans first difficulties begin when
he is able to do as he likes. So long as
a man is struggling with obstacles, he
has an excuse for failure or short-coming,
but when fortune removes them all and
gives him the power of doing as he
thinks best, then comes the trial.
Whatever expands the affections or en-
larges the sphere of our sympathies,
whatever makes us feel our relations to
the universe and all that it inherits, in
time and eternity, to the great and
benefcent cause of all, must unquestion-
ably refine our nature and elevate us in
the scale of being.
Cast an eye into the gay world
what see we for the most part but SET
of querulous, emaciated. fantastical
beings, worn out in the keen pursuit Of
Observation-Disclosures that know, own,
condemn, deplore, yet still pursue theil
own infelicity-the decayed monuments
of error, the thin remains of what is
called delight.