Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-23
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Not being untutored in suffering, learn to
pity those in ahiiction. TTgiL
Politeness has been well defined as benevo.
lencc in small things. Ndcduldy
The moro We do, the more we can do the
more busy We are, the more leisure we have.
-Hdzlm
Calumny would soon staive and die of it.
self if nobody took it in and gave it lodging
-LaghtoH.
lie who reigns within himself, and rules
passions, desires aud fears, is more than a
king .Fltoh.
When a man has not good reason for do
ing thing he has one good reason for let
ting it alone. 90 Waiter Scott
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer
and prayer drives away perplexty and
MeiaHchthOn.
An ayowal Of poverty is a disgrace to no
man to make no effort to escape it is indetd
di.graceful. .- 7hucydides
Sweet is the breath of praise when given
by those whose own high merit claims the
praise they giye.-HdnnGh More.
Our distinctions do not lie in the places
which we occupy, but in the grace and digui-
ty with which We fill them Simms.
When Death, the great reconciler, has
come, it is never our tenderness that We re-
pent of, but our severity. y.-G Gt0rge Eliot.
We all dread bodily paralysis, and would
make use of every contriyance to avoid it, but
none Of us is troubled about paralysis Of the
soul. -Epictetus
In most quarrels there is fault on both
sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark,
which cannot be produced without a flint as
well as steel. CoA0R.
If a man has right to be proud of any
tliY4y - Il. ~ d. action
to be, without any base interest lurking at
the bottom of it--SterHe.
The Sunday is the core Of our civilization,
dedicated to thought and reverence. 1t in
yitcs to the uoblest solitude and to the noblest
society y.-Raiph v. Emerson.
| have cldom seen much ostentaton and
much learning met together. The sun, rising
and declining, makes long shadows at mid
day, when he is highest, none at all. Bishop
Hail.
The highest point outward things can bring
unto is the contentment of the mind; with
which no estate can be poor, without which
all estates will be miserable. Sir PhiEp Sid
Heg.
knowledge will not be acquired without
pains and application. 1t is troublesome and
deep digging for pure waters; but when you
come to the spring, they rise up and meet you
-Feit0R.
II thou expect Death AS friend, prepare
TO entertain him if thou expect Death as an
enemy, prepare to overcome him Death has
no advantage but when he comes a stranger.
-(UdrttS.
There is no real life but cheerful life
therefore valetudinarians should be sworn,
before they enter into company, not to say O
word of themselves till the meeting breaks
up.-Addison
With every exertion, the best of men can
do but moderate amount of good, but it
seems in the power of the most contemplate
individual to do incalculable mischief -
Washington Ircing.
Procrastination has been called thief-the
thief of time. l wish it were no worse than
a thief. 1t is n murderer, and that which it
kills is not time merely, but the immortal
soul -NegiRs.
Eternity is the divine treasure house, and
hope is the window by means of which NOR
tails are permitted to see as through a glass;
darkly. the things which God is preparing
" MOuntford
1t is the greatest OF all sins always to con-
tinue in sin for, where the custom wAIeth
greater the conscience for sin grows the less
it is easier to quenoh a spark than fire.
Wdr1oick.
The surest way against scandal is to live it
down by perseverance in well doing, and by
prayer to God that he would cure the distem-
pered mind of those who traduce and injure
us. BOerAdape
Whatever may be conceded to the influence
of refined education on minds of peculiar
structure, reason and experience both forbid
us to expect that national morality can pre-
vail in exclusion of religious principle
george Washington.
"Politeness," says Witherspoon, sis real
kindness kindly expressed"-an admirable
aud so brief that all may easily re-
member it. This is the sum and substance
of all true polteness. Put it in practice, and
all will be charmed with your manners.-
Mrs. SigOurHey.