Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-06
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Woman is like the reed which bends to
every breeze, but breaks not in the tempes st.
- Whdt,iy
We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our
doing; and our bcst doing is our best enjoy
ment. -JdooJi
True wisdom is to know what is best worth
knowing, and TO do what is best worth doing
Il. HumPlrey.
Zeal without humility is like a ship without
| ruddor-liable TO be stranded at any mo-
ment. FtltHdm.
Wit is IA dangerous weapon even to the pos
sessor if he knows not how to use it discreet
ly.-NoatHgHe
You need not tell all the truth unless to
those who have a right to know it all. But
let all you tell be the truth. Horace Mann
Virtue is not to be considered in the light
of mere innocence, or abstaiuing from harm,
but rs the eNertion Of our faculties in doing
good.-Bishop Butier.
We may initiate the Diety in all his attri-
butes; but mercy is the only one in which
We can pretend to equal him. We cannot in
deed give like God but surely we may for
give like him.. .Styne.
Genuine wtticisms surprise those who say
them as much as those who listen to them :
they arise in us in spite of us-at least with
out our pation-lke everything inspir-
ed.-J0ubtrt.
Has it never occurred to us, when surround
ed by sorrOws, that they may be sent TO US
only for our iustruction-as We darken the
cages Of birds when We wish TO teach them to
sing RicAter.
The chief secret Of comfort lies in not suf.
fering trifles to yex us, and in prudently cul-
tivating our underground of small pleasures
since very few great ones, alas ! are let on
long leases. -Shdrp.
He lives long that lives well and time mis-
spent is not lived, but lost. Besides, God is
better than his promise if he takes from him
q long lease and gives him freehold Of bet
ter value F'Uller.
Memory, like books which remain long
time shut up in the dust. needs to be opened
from time to time +; it is necessary, so to speak
to open its leaves, that they may be ready in
time of need SENECA.
Do not think of knocking out another mans
brains because he differs in opinion from you
1t would be as rational to knock yourself on
the head because you differ from yourself ten
years ago.-HOraee Mann.
1t is much easier to meet with error than
to find truth error is on the surface, and
can be more easily met with truth is hid in
great depths, and the way TO seek it does not
appear to all the world GoctAe
Those who think that in order to dress well
it is necessary to dress extravagantly or
grandly, make great mistake. Nothing else
so well becomes true feminine beauty as sim
plicity. george ID. Prentice.
Women are the poetry of the world in the
same sense as the stars are the poetry of heav-
en-. Clear, light giving, harmonious, they are
the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies
of manknd.-F. HdrgrGCe
Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom,
an excellent instrument for the speedy de-
spatch of business. 1t creates confidence
with those We have to deal WITH saves the la
Dor of many inquiries, and brings things to
an issue in few words. Chesterfield
To attempt to resist temptation, to aban-
don our bad habits, and to control our domi-
nant passions in our own unaided strength is
like attempting to check, by a spiders thread
the progress of a ship of the first rate, borne
along before the wind and tide. Re-. Dr.
Waugh.
Like an inundation of the Indus is the
course of Time. We look for the homes Of
our childhood-they are gone for the friends
of our childhood-they are gone The loves
and animosities of youth, where are they
Swept away like the camps that had been
pitched in the sandy bed of the river. Long
tellOo.
There is nothing more certain than death
nothing more uncertain than the time of dy-
ing. l will therefore be prepared for that at
all times which may come at any time, and
must come at one time or another. l shall
not hasten my death by being still ready, but
sweeten it. 1t makes me not die the sooner,
but the better WGrioick.
By going out few minutes sooner or later,
by stopping to speak with friend at a cor
ner, by meeting this man or that, or by turn
ing down this street instead of the other, we
may let slip some great occasion for good, or
avoid some impending evil, by which the
whole current of our lives would have been
changed. There is no possible solution to the
dark enigma but the one word-"Provi-
dence. ."-L0RQtelIO'n
man has a bad habit he CANDLES, he
cheats in trade, he affects low company he
knows this habit or passion is dragging him
down to ruin, and he knows that there is stuff
in him TO make man. No use to tamper
with it, brood over it, morbidly cultivate re-
morse for it. Let him get above it by putting
something better in its place cut loose at once
and wholly from the places and men that sug-
gest it, and give himself up with all the We
hemence he can to whatever pursuit or hobby
he relishes most treat his diseased soul in
short, practically, as he would his body, and
give it clean air and food instead Of malaria
and poison,-A Ne0 Year Thought.