Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-09-15
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

0OOu, tue more cOulIuuulcdJeu,
more abundant grows.
To keep ones own opinions is
cheap pleasure and sweet one.
What is defeat? Nothing but edu-
cation, nothing but the first step for
something better. :.
Keep carefully out of quarrel
some persons way, and still more
carefully out of his ways.
A person under the firm persua-
sion that he can command resources
virtually has them.
If you hit the mark, you must aim
a little above it; every arrow that
flies feels the attraction of the earth.
Tt is the pleasure of the gods
that what is in conformity with JUS
tice is also in conformity to the
laws.
Whatever people may think of you,
do that which you believe is right.
Be Indifferent alike to censure and
praise.
The moment we feel angry in con-
troversy we have already ceased
striving for truth and begun striving
for ourselves.
Philanthropy, like charity, must
begin at home. From this center
our sympathies may extend in an
ever-extending circle.
He who is dear to the heart is near,
though far as he can be; he whom
the heart rejects is remote, though
near as our very self.
Any coward can fight a battle
when he's sure of winning; but give
me the man who has the pluck to
fight when he is sure of losing.
AS the soil, however rich it may
be, cannot be productive without cul-
ture, so the mind, without cul;iva-
>tion can never produce good fruit.
Every man is not so much work
man in the world as he is a sugges-
ton of what he should be. Men
walk as prophecies of the next age.
Where are there two things SO op-
posite and yet so nearly related, SO
unlike and yet often so hard to dis
tinguish from each other as humil-
lty and pride?
Conversation should be pleasant
without scurrility, witty without af-
fectation, free without indecency,
learned without conceitedness, novel
without falsehood.
True glory consists in doing what
deserves a place in history, writing
what deserves to be read, and in so
living as to make the world happier
and better for our living in it.
Expect no praise without envy un-
til you are dead. Honors bestowed
on the illustrious dead have in them
no admixture of envy; for the living
pity the dead; and pity and envy,
like oil and vinegar, assimilate not.
Educate all the faculties and pro-
pensities of children but, above all,
see that the conscience, the balance
wheel of the moral system, is trained
unto perfect accord with the princi-
Piles of positive truth and absolute
justice.
If satan ever laughs it must be at
hypocrites. They are the greatest
dupes he has. They serve him better
than any others, but receive no wag-
es. Nay, what is still better, they
submit to greater modification than
the sincerest Christians.
We are ruined not by what we
really want but by what we think we
do; therefore never go abroad in
search of your wants, they will come
home in search of you; for she who
buys what she does not want will soon
want what she cannot buy.
Never be ashamed to confess your
ignorance, for the wisest man on
earth is ignorant of many things, in
somuch that what he knows is mere
nothing in comparison with what he
does not know. There cannot be a
greater folly in the world than to
suppose we know everything.
The most glorious exploits do not
always furnish us with the clearest
discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
Sometimes N after of less moment,
an expression or a jest, informs us
better of their characters and incli-
nations than the most famous seiges,
the greatest ornaments, or the blood
lest battles whatsoever.