Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-22
Selections.

---Resolye
Shines ever on the front of victory
alice Cary,
| When passion rnles. how rare
! rhe hours that fall to virtues share
| Waller Scott.
Who learns and learns but acts not what he knows.
| Is one who pows and pows, but never sows
| ORIENTAL
| Some day that dreams Of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep-that death is slumber,
| \nd that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
| Of those who wake and live.
Shetleu
| The twilight of probability Locke.
Opinions are the shadows ofknow ledge
Virtue alone is true nobility.-Gj6orq
Goodness is never fearful Shakespeare.
He hangeth the earth upon nothing
| 7ob.
Read much rather than many things
Pinv.
The law of heaven is love. Hannah
| Moore.
Praise is the daughter of present power.
Suit.
And if say the truth why DO You not
believe me.-JesuS
Hearken to yourself and YOU will be a
believer -lhSsilOn.
The great hope of society is individual
character.-C Channing.
Every one has a fair turn 10 be as great
rs he pleases .-Cottier.
Want of good sense is worse than all the
degrees of poverty. Asiatic PrOUtrJ.
Love, to yielding heart, is king; TO
Il resisting heart is II ty rant. -iSidpey.
Stiffness of mind is not from adherence
o truth, but submission to preiudice.-
Locke
One word of wickedness may involve n
man in misery for this life and the next
Tacobus.
A corrupt heart may see the truth; but
is incapable of relshing or of loving it,
81. AuguStine.
A first farewell has pathos in it, but 10
come back for IL second lends an opening
to comedy. - George Eliot.
1t is the multitude and magnitude of his
desires that distinguishes the man from
the beast. - Washington irving.
Never pout Settle up misunderstood
ings spe eedily, cheerfully, honestly, hum
bly, and charitably.-S. s. Journal.
.... The sacrifice of Christ is done
over again in every life which is lived not
to self, but to God.-E w. Robertson.
When man uncovers his sin, God covers
it. When man cloaks, God strips bare
When man confesses, God pardons.-iS
Augustane.
Honor and fortune exist for him who
always recognizes the neighborhood of
the great-always feels himself in the
presence of high causes .-Emerson.
1t has been said that there are two things
which we ought never to be crushed bv;
things which can be helped, and things
which can't be helped.-S. S. Times.
Bricks found in the ruins of Nineveh.
discovered by Layard contain an account
of the Deluge substantially, the same as
the narrative in lhe Bible except that the
names are different.-Chief Justice DnIeu
before NeU YORK. GeographicaI Society.
There is one article absolutely necessary
to be ever beloved, one must be ever
agreeable. There is no such thing as
being agreeable without thorough good
humor, natural sweetness of temper,
by cheerfulness.- Monta
que.
Over an old English castle are inscribed
these words:
WHAT Do THEY SAY?
LET THEM SAY.
Thin skinned persons should learn this
motto by heart. The best way to endure
unjust sayings is not to listen to them. II
Charles Spurgeon.
A real Christian seldom sees defect in
his neighbor. A pure lake reflects the
beautiful sky, the clouds, and the over
hanging trees but when it is ruffled il |
reflects nothing that is pure. A bad man
"a real scoundrel-seldom sees a good
rat in the character of his neighbor. An
imperfect glass reflects nothing correctly |
but shows it sown deficiency. A perfect
mirror reflects nothing but bright pure
images.
When the keeper of light house trims
and lights his lamp, he goes to his lonely |
couch cheered by the thought that by his |
fidelity to his trust he will guide many a |
mariner through the dangers of the treach |
erous sea. But how many are thus guided |
he knows not. 1t is even so with the good
man who keeps his spiritual light shining
through the lamp of u virtuous life. That
he does guide some souls TO the truth he
cannot doubt; but how many are led to
hink better thoughts, to form higher pur
poses, to enlist under his Lord 8 banner,
ne cannot know. He never will know,
lntil, in the blessed hereafter, one and
another happy saint will say to him,
Your light guided me to our precious
Christ" Shine on, therefore, o believer!
Trim anew the lamp of thy love to the
Christ, and let it shine through thy pure
leeds as the rays from a common lamp
'hine through globe of alabaster. Pierce,
IN lions Herald.
A PERFECT WATER PRooF.-A writer
n an English paper saws: "BV the way,