The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-30
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

ct on my check feel the western wind
And hear it telling to the orchard trees
And To the faint and flower torsaken bees
ales OF talr meadows green with constant streams
AHd mountains rising blue and cold behind
" here in moist dels the purple orchis CLEANS
And starred with white the virgins bower i
tWined,
So the oerweared pilgrim as he fares
Along llteS Summer waste at times is famed
Even at nOontide, by the cool sweet airs
OF serener and holier land
Fresh as the morn, and as the dew all bland
Breath of the blessed heaven for which we pray
Blow from the eternal lills-lnake clad
Our earthly wavi
John g. Whittier.
The enyious die but envy never [AIoliere
Too much gravity argues shallow mind LA
water
Fortune not wisdom, human life doth sway
Cicero
The first and of all frauds is to cheat one.
sell All sin is easy after that Bailey
No one is more profoundly sad than he that
laughs too much. Richter
Countries well cultivated not as they arc
f"tIIe' buf as they are free. Goethe.
The greatest glory OF freedom people is tc
transmit their glory to their children Howard,
BID that welcome which comes to punish us and
"e punish II, seeming 10 bear it lightly Shakes
peare
There is this of good in real evis-they deliver
Us while they last from the petty despotism of all
That were imaginary
We gam nothing by being with such as our
selves We encourage one another in mediocritv
an always longing to be with men more excel
Ieut than myself Lamb
Winter which strips the leaves from around us.
makes us see the distant regions they formerly
concealed: so does old age rob rs of our enjoy
Inents. only to enlarge the prospects Of eternity
before Us. Richter
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particu-
lar favor, and it may be to one only the space OF
two or three ages and then with a rAss to boot to
carry hln through all the tTvcrSes she has strewn
ia the way of his long career. Montague
\ noble man compares and estimates himself by
an idea which is higher than himself and AN
iEnoble man by one which is lower than himself
he one produces aspirations, the other ambition
Ambition Is the way in which vulgar man as
pres Beechcr.
4 gentleman once asked a deaf and dumb boy
lat is truth He replied by taking piece of
chalk. and drawing on the blackboard straight
Iuc between two points. Then he asked him.
What is a lie " The boy rubbed out the straight
line, and drew ZigZag or crooked line between
the same two points.
The fatal tondness for INDUCING in a spirit of
llrule and the injurious and irrepambe conse
QacnceS which sometimes attend the too severe
reply. can never be condemned with more asperty
Than II deserves. Not to offend is the first step to
ward pleasing. To give pain is as much an of
ieute against humanity as against good breeding
and surcl Ii is as well To abstain from an action
because it is illpote Blair
II IS IN easier matter to begin to do good than
I" continue therein; aud the reason is, there is
much - n Chris in ba har
OF # WORK as there is Ill a continual, hearty con
7'iritl"us lract1c" thereof Apples and flowers
are not made 10y the gardener. but are an effect of
Tie planting and the watering. A life full of good
works Is the only way thy part to answer the
mercy ot tod extended to thee God hath had
mercy ou thee and hath saved thee from all thy
diStrcSses The heart that is fullest of good works
hath IN 1t least room for Saans temptation. Every
promise ia the Bible is thine to STRENGTHEN ouicken
and encourage thy heart. Bunyan
Dickens wrote, There is nothing no nothing
beautiful and good mat dies and is forgotten An
infant prattng child dying in its cradle VIII
awe asaiu III the better thoughts of those who
l"N'' IL. ana play It's part, though its body be
barned 10 ashes OF drowned in the deepest sea
There Is not an angel added to the host of Heaven
bat does its blessed work on earth in those that
lowed 1t here. Dead. Oh if the good deeds of
human creatures could be traced to their source
h"" beautiful could even death appear! for how
much charity, mercy and purified affection would
br seen t" have their growth III dusty graves.
i'ay no attention to slauderers and gossip mong,
els Keep straight on iii your course and let their
Lack hitlug die the death of neglect What is the
u-v oi laying awake ut nights brood;ng over the
remark OF some false friend, that runs through
r"nr brain like lightning! What is the use of get
ting INTO orIy and fret over gossip that has been
sci ahuat to your disadvantage by some NEEDLE
some buSNhodE who has more time than charac-
Ter The things cannot possibly iniure Won I'M
less. indeed, you take notice OF them, and in com