Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19
UsTs or ApVERsITY

| II none were sick and none were sad,
| WHAT service could We render !
| l think If We were always glad
| We scarcely could be tender.
| Did our beloved never need
| Our patient ministraton.
| Earth would grow cold and miss indeed,
Its sweetest consolation.
If sorrow never claimed our heart,
| And every wish were granted,
| Patience would die and hope depart
| Life would be dsenchanted.
I We must calculate not on the weather, nor
| on fortune, but ulon God and on ourselves.
| He may fail us in the qualification of our
wishes. but never in the encounter with our
exigencies.-ISimms.
| Every one is rs God made him and often
times u great deal lworse.-[From ''Don.Qnix-
| ote."
l am convinced that men do more harm to
| themselves than ever the devil could do TO
them. Lord Byron.
When men grow virtuous in their old age
| they are merely making n sacrifice to God of
the devils leavings. -[Swiit.
The taste of beauty and and the relish of
what is decent. just and amiable. perfects
the character of the gentleman. Shafts
bury.
Modesty is the appendage of sobrieiy, and
is to chastity. to temperance, and 10 humili-
ty, as the fringes are to garment Jeremy
Taylor.
No man can be brave who considers pain
to be the greatest evil OF life nor temperate
who considers pleasure to be the highest
good.-tCicero.
Choose for thy daily walk
Life's sunny side,
So shall all pesce and joy
With thee abide.
II shadows DER thee fall,
Faith still can see
The Fathers smile through all
Sunshine to thee
Then always look above,
Mhate'er betide.
And choose with heart of love,
Lies sunny side.
Prejudice squints when it looks and lies
when 1t talks Duchess d'Abrantes.
Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the ex-
cess is always cIiminal-[St. Evremond.
If you want enemies, excel others if you
want friends, let others excel you -[Col-
ton.
1t is the nature of the human disposition
to hate him whom you have injured. Iaci
tus.
1t SO falls out that what We have We prize
not the worth while we enjoy it but being
LACKED anu lO5t, why, tHeH we IhCh lue
acknowledgements.
Reputation is but the synonym of popu-
larity dependent ON suffrage, TO he increased
or diminished at tine will OF the voters
Washington Allston.
Virtue is not to be pursued as one of the
means to fame, but fame to he accepted rs
the only recompense which mortals can be-
stow on virtue. Johnson.
l. Al. = Al. 81
Jesus Christ as he journeys to know that
even in darkness his guide is still with him,
and that guide is the King OF the country
through which he is travelling John Fos-
ter.
Let Us watch awhile the sewers. let us mark their
tiny grain,
Then let Faith, with radiant finger, lit the veil
from unseen things.
Where the golden sheaves are bending, AMI the
harvest anthems ring.
Seek truth by thought. not by searching
for 1t in mouldy books. Look up TO the sky
to see the moon, instead of seeking for it in
the pond Persian.
With God go over the sea without Him,
not over the threshold a Russian Proyerb.
The best way for man to get out of
lowly position is TO be conspicuOusly effect
i've in it Rev. DIR. John Hall.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are
moments when, whatever he the attitude OF
the BODY. the soul is on its knees. Victor
Hugo.
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