Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-04-09
WORDS OF WISDOM.


II there is a virtue in the world at which
we should always aim, it is cheerf illness. -
Bulwer Lytton.
the limbs and outward fourishes - Shaks-
peare.
The charities that soothe and heal and
bless are scattered at the feet of man like
flowers. II Wordsworth.
Brevity is the best recommendation of a
speech, not only in the case of a senator, but
in that, too, Of an orator Cicero.
If the soul be happily disposed everything
becomes capable of atording entertainment,
and distress will almost want home-1Oli
yor Goldsmith.
When a book raises your spirit. and in
spires you with noble and courageous feel.
ings, seek for 10 other rule to Judge the
work by it is good, and made by good
workman. - Bruyere.
A man should fear when he enjoys only
what good he does publicly. Is it not the
publicity, rather than the charity, that he
loves II. w. Bcecher
The era Of Christianity peace. brother
hood, the golden rule as applied to govern
mental matters-is yet to come. and when it
comes, then, and then only, will the future
of nations be sure kossuth
II is the work of fancy to enlarge but Of
judgment to shorten and contract aud there
fore this must be as far above the other as
judgment isl greater and nobler faculty than
fancy or Imagination South.
The books which help you most are those
which make you think the most. The hard
est way Of learning is by easy reading: but
great book that comes from u great thinker
it is a ship Of thought deep-freighted with
truth and with beauty Theodore Parker.
| have no respect for that lf-boastng
charity which neglects all objects of commits
Grafton near and around it, but goes to the
end OF the earth in search of misery for the
purpose Of talking about it George Mason
There are beauties of character which, like
the night-bloomiug cereus, are closed against
the glare and turbulence of every day life
and bloom only in the shade and solitude. and
beneath the quirt stars. II. T. Tuckerman.
Tie charities of life are scattered every
where. enamelling the wales Of human beings
RS the flowers paint the meadows. They are
not the fruit of study nor the privilege of
refinement but u natural instinct - George
Bancroft.
A cheerful temper, Joined with innocence,
will make beauty attractive, knowledge de
lghtful, aud wit good natured. 1t will light
EN- sickness, poverty and afiliction, convert
ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and
render deformity itself agreeable. Addison.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if
thou wantest charity for thy neighbor and
think not that thou hast charity for thy neigh
Dor, if thou wantest faith to God where
they are not both together they are
both wanting they are both dead, if once
divided Quarles.
Nightly rest and daily bread, the ordinary
use Of our limbs and senses, and understand
ings, are gifts which admit of no comparison
with any other; yet, because almost every
man We meet possesses these. We leave them
out of our enumeration of blessings. .- Paley.
We sometimes knuckle readily to Difficult
ties, and take complacence in our serene sub
mssiveness to Providence, when little more
pluck and persistence on our part would over
come the obstacles. We mistake laziness for
Christian resignation. Table" in Good
Company.