Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-03
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the unfading fame
Which virtue hangs upon its yotarys tomb
Shall never pass away.
--Sheiev
Aud because right is right, to ,llow right
We're wisdom a Of consequence
--7snnySon.
Only the pTism's obstruction shews ari<ht
The secret of sunbeam, breaks its l<ht
Into the jeweled bow from blankest white:
So may a glory from defect arise.
-BroWnin0.
One adequ1te support
For the calamites of mortalife
ExIsts-one only. an assured belief
That the procession of our fate, howe'er
Sad or disturbed is ordered by a Being
OF infinite benevoelce aud power:
Whose everlasting purposes embrace
All acc lents converting them to good
WordsworH
Labor is life -C,utyle.
A gallant man is above i'll words -
S, ,Men.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
-S0Uth
Be true to the dream of thy youth
Schiller.
There's proud modesty in merit
DrYIen.
The memory of the Just Is blessed -
ProrerbS
Fortune favors the brave, Spanih
ProUe,6.
DO good by stealth, and blush to find it
fame.-Pope.
Naught assuageth malice when It's
"ld -Farfdr.
Truth is like the daughters Of time
Ndtian Pr0re'b.
Anger is IL good rvant but bad
master.- Artst0He.
He is worth M weel that can hida no
woe - Scotch PrOre,b.
There are many men who tve n dys.
pepSa Of hooks - Betcher.
A man may mistake the love Of virue
for the prac ice of it.-Johnson.
Impatience turns an ague to fever, \
fever to the plague B Taylor.
Be lamp in the chamber il You cannot
be star in the sky.--S, CJley.
Be what natnre intenII YOU for and you
will succeed --!Sylney Smith.
We take less pains to be happy than to
appear so.-.LG Rochtfoucau,d.
The principle materials of our comfort
or uneasi. less lie within ourselves. s.-Dldr.
The devil tpmpts every man. but the
lazy man tempts the devil-lta'ian Prof.
eTb.
The truest, NOS. nutritious food God has
rlven US we find in well doing. Mrs.
Whiting.
The duty OF itself being resolved on,
The mole of doing it may be easily found.
B. Taylor.
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven
receives and the sincerest part of our
levotion.- Swift
As we must render an account of every
die word so must we likewise of our idle
silence. e.-AmbroSe.
He who would love his race must first
| owe those of his race who are nearest to
him.-IS. S. Times
Man is naturally ungrateful and ungod-
| lv, but be is not naturally an atheist
-PresideM McCosh.
| One pure life will do more toward the
conversion of the world than any number
/ Of volumes on Evidences on Christianity.
JoS'1oh Parker.
That which a man suffers for this world
| ills his heart with darkness; but that
which he suffers for the other fills it
| with LIGHT t-ASiattC PrOuerb.
The tender words and loving deeds
which we scatter for the hearts which
are nearest to us are immortal seed, that
will spring up in everlasting beauty
Spur9eon.
| Nothing is more expensive than penu-
riousnesS; nothing more anxious than
careles>ness; and every duty which is
bidden TO wait, returns with seven fresh
duties at its back,-Ch Charles Kingsley.
Nothing can have so clearing an effect
upon our better thoughts, nothing leaves
our mind so open to receive the impression
of what is good and noble, as the single
eve and the upright cons ,ience Dean
Staniey.
Sometimes we are impoite from
| houg ughtlessness oftener from bashfulness;
hut it our courtesy is based on the broad
| Christian golden rule we shall never
| forget and we shall conquer our timidty
by the stronger principle of duy,-Lntet-
| J,gencer.
Satire is sort of glass, wherein behold.
ers generally discover everybodys face
but their own which is the chief reason
Tor that kind of reception it meets in the
world, and that so few are offended with
it.-SWJt.
Let us be careful only of the quality of
our work-that it be thorough, genuine,
simple hearted. the best that is in us, the
best that can come out of us, and above
all, let us leave success to God who is a
good task MASTER WiHiam GdSkeU.
Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets
have no magical power to make scholars.
man is the maker Of his own mind. The
Creator has so constituted the human
intellect that it can only grow by its own
action. Every man must therefore edu-
cate himself. A man is not educated till
he has the ability TO summon in emergen-
cv all his mental powers. The greatest
of all warriors in the seige of Troy had
not the prominence because nature had
given strength and be carried the larges!
bow, but because self discipline had taught
him how to bend it.-Ddniet Webster.