Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-15


Nature never did batray
The heart that loved her
Anon.
rich and various nan,
Thou palace of sight and sound
-Enerson
If eyes ma de for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
-Enlerson.
Her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like godei fleece
-Shahespeare.
- Who reigned without dispute,
Through all the realms Of nonsense absolute.
-Drvden.
Love is never weary Watson.
Things are as sullen as we are.-Iyllot-
son.
The beet time 10 stopis at the beginning.
Lesley.
Nlggardiness is not good husbandry.-
Addison
The essence OF courtesy is morale Geo.
lVnn. curtis
As are the incina ions, so are the opin-
IONS G0ethe.
Moral prejudices are the stop.gaps of
virtue -Dure.
With pity c.imed. down iell hi. angry
mood,-Spemcer.
We are moles in the midst of genera.
tions.-Langor.
a happy wedock is long falling in
love.-1heodore Parker.
He who knows most grieves most for
wasted time -LdUater.
Not fact but what we make of it is its
value after all.-Enaerson.
Charity is the first mortgage on every
numan beings possessions.
God does not M Ike or u,nake things to
ry cxpei llnents -Burnet.
lis ever common that men are III rricst
when they are from home. --ShukeSpeare.
More.than once person first learned be
mad faith whrn the Savior told him of It,
Bengel.
A noble and triumphant merit breaks
through little spots and sullies on our rep
uta'ion. Spectator.
The secret of success is to know how to
leny yourself and other paople.-New
Orleans Ptcayune.
Content with adding to the sum
Of practical good, left the war of words TO
those who liked it.-Maeauley.
1t was the motto of II bishop eminent
for his piely and good works, "Serve
God, and be cheerful .'-Addisou.
There is not an aspect of evil, lmperfec.
ion, and littleness which can elude the
light of humor, or the lightning of wit
&. p. Wh,pple.
Music once admitted to the soul,
becomes u sort of spirit and never dies. 1t
wanders perturbedly through the halls and
galleries of the memory, and is often
neard again, distinct and living as when
1t first displaced the wtvelets of the air.
BuLWer- Lgtton.
So Ton the mount of temptation) between
he beasts and the angels, men being
wholly away; Jesus gets tokens of sympa-
by that minister comfort, and help him to
compose himself to the opening tragedy
IF his life Dr. BuSh7eW
Life has no smooth roads for any of us;
md in the bracing atmosphere of high
,im, the very roughness only stimulates
he climber to steadier and steadier steps,
ill that legend of the rough places fulills
itself at last; "Per aspera ad aStra''-over
steep ways to the stairs.-Bishop Doane.
Depend upon it, in the midst of all the
science about the world and its ways and
Ill the ignorance of God and his greatness.
he man or woman who can say "Thy will
be done" with the true hear, of giving up,
IS nearer the secret of things than the geol-
ogist or thcologian.- George Mac Donald.
There is way which God has of forcing
the spiritual upon mems attention. When
YOU shut down the lid upon the coffin of
child,o one as dearly loved, there is an aw-
ful want, horrible sense of insecurity.
which sweeps away the glittering rust of
time from the edge of the abyss, and you
gazs on the phantom-wonders of the un-
seen. Yes, real anguish qualities for an en-
trance into the solemn chamber where all
is miracle.-F. ". Robertson.
"Well, my lad, where are you travelling
this stormy weather, all alone?" asked an
inuuisitive landlord, of small lad, whose
father was engaged in smuggling, and had
sent him, young as he was, on an impor-
tant message. in advance of the party.
Going to draw my pension was the
reply. "Pensionp' echoed the astonished
landlord; what does so small lad AS
you draw pension forp' Winding my
own business and letting that of others
aloner'
Think what it is not to hate
ANYTHING but sin; to be full of love to
every creature; to be frightened at moth.
ING to be sure that all things will turn
to good; not to mind pain, because it is
our Fathers will: to know that nothing
no, not if the earth was to be burnt up, or
the waters come and drown us-nothing
could part US from God who loves US, and
who fills our souls with peace and joy,
because we are sure that whatever he wills
is holy, just and good George Eiot.