The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-02

Reason convinces, but faith consoles.
Virtues guard is labor, ease her
sleep.-[Tasso.
True greatness cannot exist apart
from high moral excellence.
Genius finds new ideas, wit ridicules
them and common sense adopts them.
One good hearty laugh is bomb
shell exploding in the right place,
while spleen and discomfort are a gun
that kicks over the man who shoots it
ofl.-[D C Witt Talmage.
True law is right reason comforma-
ably to nature, universal, unchanged
BILE, eternal, whose commands urge us
to duty, and whose prohibitions re-
strain us from evil.-[Cicero.
Alexander the Great, rejecting on
his friends degenerating into sloth and
luxury, told them that it was most
slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most
royal thing to labor Barrow.
God made both tears and laughter,
and both for kind purposes; for as
laughter enables mirth and surprise to
breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow
TO vent itself patiently. Tears hinder
sorrow from becoming despair and
Madness Leigh Hunt.
Spirit existence is not new theory;
in all ages of the world the mind has
been continually delving into the mys-
terry by which it was surrounded; de-
feated i'll one avenue another was
sought, and the same deathless inquiry
ever rising in the mind, what of the
future?
No man can ever want this mortifica-
ton of his vanity, that what he knows
is but very little, in comparison of
what he still continues ignorant of.
Consider this, and, instead of boasting
thy knowledge of few things, confess
and be out of countenance for the many
more which thou dost not understand.
l-[Thomas a. Kempis.
Man perfected by society is the best
of all animals; he is the most terrible of
all when he lives without law and
without justice. If he finds himself an
individual who cannot live in society,
or who prctends he has need of only
his own resources, do not consider him
a member of humanity; he is savage
beast or a god.-[ Aristotle.
1t is beautifully remarked that a
mans mother is The representative of
his maker. Misfortune and mere
crime set no barriers between her and
her son. While his mother lives man
has one friend on earth, who will not
desert him when he is needy. Her af-
iection flows from a pure fountain and
ceases only at the ocean of eternity.
Says Archbis hop Tillotson: "Men
generally love rather to hear evil of
others than good, and are secretly
| pleased with evil reports, and drink
them in with greediness and delight
though at the same time they have so
much justice as to hate those that pro-
pagatc them; and so much wit as to
conclude that these very persons will
do The same for them in another place
and company"
1t is not good feeling alone that
makes good man, but good pur-
pose; not merely emotion, but deep
abiding principle. Let young man
start out in life trusting only to his
feelings, and he may land at the swine
trough; but let deep and guiding
principle furnish the plan on which he
builds, and an earnest unflinching pur-
pose animate the builder, and the edi-
flee of character shall rise as truly and
steadily as if il grew from the rock on
which il is built.
Our faculties for exercising an influ-
ence over others are so many and great
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