Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

Putting sells many book on which the pa
per-knife refuses to do its office
Men usually follow their wishes till suffer
ing compels them to follow their judgment
The sleep of memory is not its death for
gotten studies are certain aptitudrs gone to
sleep
BE always at leisure to do good never
make business an excuse to decline offices Of
humanity.
Life becomes useless and insipid when We
have no longer either friends or enemies.
Dignity is expensive aud without other
good qualities, is not particularly profitable.
An able man shows his spirit 10y gentle
words and rcsolutc actions he is neither hot
nor tmid.
He who is pulled up with the first gale of
prosperity, will bend beneath the first blast of
adversity.
The incapacity of men to understand each
other is one of the principal causes of their ILL
temper towards each other.
Those who excel in strength are not most
likely to show contempt in weakness. man
does not dcspiSe the weakness of child.
When a woman smiles at AN affront, one of
two things are certain. She has either lost
all modesty, or she is assured of her revenge
The chief properties of wisdom are to be
uiluulul VI luluBH past, NdItlul vi lhluBa pIcS-
ent, and proyid-nt of things to come.
great secret of education is to make the
exercises of the body and those of the mind
serve always as a recreation to each other.
Cities force growth, and make men talka-
tive and entertaining, but they also make
them artificial.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfor-
tunes, hut ingratitude dries up the fountain of
all goodness.
Make no more VOWS to perform this or that;
it shows no great strength, and makes thee
ride behind thyself.
Never plead guilty to poverty. So far as
this world is concerned, you might better adj
init that you are a villain.
Man wastes his mornings in anticipating
his afternoons, and wastes his afternoons in
regrettng his mornings.
We have seen a prudent, industrious wife
retrieve the fortunes of family when her
husband pulled at the other end of the rope.
We love much more warmly by cherishing
the intention of giving pleasure than an hour
afterwards when We have given it.
Jealous men are ever displaying to you the
strength of their belief, while judicious men
are showing you the grounds of it.
If man be gracious and courteous to stran-
gers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and
that his heart IS no island cut on from other
hearts, but continent that joins them
There is a wonderful vigor of constitution
in a popular falncy When the world has
once got hold of lie, it is astonishing how
hard it is to get it out of the world.
Mental pleasures never cloy Unlike those
of the body they are increased by repetition,
approved of by reflection, and strengthened
by enjoyment,
True JOY is serene and sober emotion
and they are miserably out that take laughing
for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and
there is no cheerfulness like the resolution of
brave mind.
We should no more lament that we have
grown old than the husbRndman, when the
bloom and fragrance of spring have passed
away, should lament that summer or autumn
has come.
The pleasures of this world are deceitful
they promise us more than they give, They
trouble us in seeking them, they do not salts
fy us when possessing them, and they make
us despair in losing them,
good conscience is better than two wit.
nesses 1t will consume your grief as the sun
dissolves ice. II is n spring, when you are
thirsty; n staff when you are weary
screen, when the sun burns you, and pillow
in death.
So certain is the crime of listening to carry
its own punishment, that there is no pointed
prohibition against il we are commanded
not TO commit other sins, but this one draws
down its own correction, and woe to him who
infringes it