Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-09-09

The clever turn everything to &C.
count
Though we travel the world over to
find tho beautiful, we must carry it
with us, or we find it not.
Persons extremely reserved are like
old cnamellcd watches, which had
painted covers that prevented you see
ing what o'clock it was.
There scarce can be named one quail
ity that is amiablo in woman which
is not becoming in man, not except
ing even modesty and gentleness of
nature.
Smile not at legend as vain, that
once in holy hands a worthless stone
becomes heap of silver. Let thy al
chemist bo contentment, and stone or
ore shall be equal to thee.
The world deals good-naturedly with
good-natured people. and | never knew
sulky misanthropist who quarreled
with it, but it was he, and not it, that
was in the wrong.
If, in instructing n child, you arc
veXed with it for want of adroitness,
try, If you have never tried before, to
write with your left hand, and then re-
member that child is all left hand.
The difficulties of education lie deep
er down than the curriculum. 1t is
not so much finding out to teach what
is needful; tho all-important thing is
how to develop the mental and moral
energies.
Bring up your children to joy. Give
them just as much as they can take
without intoxication and without re-
action. If you take too much of any
one essential, you cheat some other
Equipoise of the various elements of
our being is what We want.
Enthusiasm is tho glow of tho soul;
enthusiasm is the lever by which men
are raised above the average level and
enterprise, and become capable of
goodness and bcnevolence which, but
for it, would be quite impossible.
Nothing so establishes the mind amid
the rollings and turbulency of present
things as both look above them and
look beyond them-above them to
the steady and good Hand by which
they are ruled, and beyond them to the
sweet and beautiful end to which by
that Hand they shall be brought.
The man of talents possesses them
like so many tools, does his job with
them, and there an end; but the man
of genius is possessed by it. and it
makes him into book or a life, &C.
cording to its within. Talent takes the
existing moulds, and makes its cast
ings, better or worse, of richer or baser
metal, according to knack or opportu-
nifty; but genius is always shaping new
ones, and runs the man IN them, so
that there is always that human feel
in its results which gives us kindred
thrill.
Mental burdens will be far moro
easily borne if they arc placed, as far
as practicable, out of sight. When
we gaze upon them, they increase in
size. When in our thoughts we en-
phasize and dwell upon them, they
sometimes grow almost unbearable
1t is well enough to face trouble when
it comes to us, to measure it and know
its weight, that we may summon up
courage ind strength sufficient to en-.
dure it; but this done, let us place it
where it may no longer be in constant
sight-let us carry 1t manfully and
brayely, but not drag it to the light, to
dwell upon its weight, and to claim
sympathy for being obliged to bear it.
When the emphasis Of life is laid on
the cheerful and attractive side, its
real burdens will be borne lightly, hap
piness will abound and be dilfuscd, and
the value Of life be multiplied tenfold.