The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-19
HERE AMI

Sin is disease, deformity and weak.
ness Plato.
Intercourse is the soul of progress
TCharles Buxton.
Weeping may endure for q night, but
joy cometh in the morning-TBible.
True love makes a man better, no
matter who the woman is who inspires
it.
The sweet scent of flowers is lost on
the breeze, but the fragrance of virtue
endures forever.
Christians keep Sunday as their Sab
bath, Jews observe Saturday, and Mo-
hammedans Friday.
A penitent's tear is an undeniable
ambassador, and never returns from
the throne of grace unsatisfed.-
%TSpencer.
"Iryour lips would keep from slips
rive things observe with care:
Ofwhat You speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where"
Human feeling is like the mighty
rivers that bless the earth, it does not
wait for beauty-it flows with resist
less force, and brings beauty with it.
1t is an excellent thing when mems
religion makes them generous, free
hearted and open-handed, scorning to
do a thing that is paltry and sneaking.
Solomon's Proverbs, l think, have
omitted to say, that as a sore palate
findeth grit, SO an uneasy conscious
eness heareth MISUNDERSTANDING
Eliot.
A woman has two smiles that an
angel might envy-the smile that ac-
cepts a lover afore words are uttered,
and the smile that lights on the first.
born abe.-THallburton.
Great happiness is the fire ordeal Of
mankind, great misfo rtune only TIT
trial by wafer; for the former opens
large extent of futurity, whereas thu
latter circumscribes or closes it,
BRIGHTER.
The body may grow old, the limb
lose their vigor, and the mind seem t.
become impaired, but when dealt
comes, the mind renews its former &C
tivity, and what was supposed to b,
lost reappears again with all the vivac
ity of youth.
The foundation OF domestic happines
is faith in the virtue of woman; tn
foundation of political happiness is con
fdcnce in the integrity of man; tn
foundation of all happiness, Temporal
and eternal, is reliance on the goodnes
of Go~d.-rLandor.
Our deeds determine MS as much q
we determine our deeds; and until W
know what has been or will be the pc
culiar combination of outward with in
ward facts, which constitute a man
critical actions, it will be better not Il
think ourselves wise about his charac
ter.
Original sin is in us like the beard
we are shaved to day, and look clean
and have a smooth chin; tomorrow on
beard has grown again, nor does i
cease growing while we remain OF
earth. In like original sill
cannot be extirpated from us; it spiingI
up in us as long as we exist; nevcrthe
less, we are bound to resist it to our ut
most strength, and to cut it down I'M
Observation-Disclosures.
When the absent are spoken of, some
will speak gold OF them, some silver,
some iron, some lead, and some always
speak dirt, for they have a natural at
traction towards what is evil, and think
it shows penetration in them. AS a
cat watching for mice does not look up
though an elephant goes by, Sc arc they
SO busy housing for defects, that they
let great excellences paOs them unno-
ticed. / will not say that it is not
| Christian to make beads of others
| faults, and tell them over every day
| say it is Internal. Ifyou want to know
how the devil feels, you know if you
| are such an opc.-GBeecher.