Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-11-19
VARIETIES.

Depend not upon fortune but conduct
Better go superless to bed than to rur
in debt.
He is worthless fellow who lives on ly
to himself.
Begin life with but little show, you
may increase it afterwards.
There is no struggle in life SO com.
mendable as that to bejust.
There is no more ereditin making our.
selves great. than it is to be born so.
He that knows useful things, and moi
he that knows many things is the wise
man.
AS we must render an account of every
idle word, so We must likewise of ouI
idle silence.
A vIRTUOUs woman is crown to her
husband; butshe that maketh ashamed
is as rottenness in his bone.
If men of eminence are exposed to GEN.
sure on the one hand, they are as much
liable to tiattery on the other.
HE wants the best taste, and best
sense man can have, who is cold to the
No man can have attractive house, un-
less it is well supplied with food and fire
for the mind, as well as fol the body.
All men are better than their ebulli-
tions of evil; but they are also worse than
their out-bursts of noble enthusiasm.
The ,ul finds it's reflection in our be-
haviour, and we can read its inclination
and disgust as legibly in our actions, as
physicians the state of the body by the
beating of the pulse.
Though We seem grieved at the short
ness of lie in general, We are wishing ev-
cry period of it at an end. The minor
longs to be of age, then to be a man of
business, then to make fortune, then to
arrive at hohors, then to retire.
MEMoRY presides over the past; action
preside over the present. The first lives
trophies, and lined with tombs; the 9TH
er has no shrine but duty, and it walks
the earth like SPIRIT TX Marvel
Scratch the green rind of sapling,
wantonly twist it in the soil, and a SCARED
or crooked oak will tell the act for
centuries to come, How forcibly does
this figure teach the necessity of giving
right tendencies to the minds and hearts
of the young.
BEST WAY TO BE HAPPY.-Never sit
down and brood over trouble of any
kind. If you are veXed with yourself or
the world, this is no way to obtain salts
faction. Find yourselfemployment that
viii Keep your mind active; and depend
upon if, this will force out unwelcome
thoughts.
Be courteous of gesture, and affable to
all men, with diversity of reverence ac-
cording to The dignity of the person.
There is nothing that winneth so much
with SO little cost. He who endeavors
to please, and appear pleased; and he
who would not provoke rudenes, must
not practice it.
Though the pure consciousness of wor-
thy actions, distracted from the person
al views of popular applause, be an evil
dent and ample reward to the philan-
| tthropist, yet the desire for fame and dis
tinction among the sons of earth was
undoubtedly implanted in human ma
ture as an additional incentive to exert
our faculties in virtuous excellence.
A man habitually finding fault, habit
iuaily on the slert to detect folly or vice,
without even bestowinga thought upon
whatsoever things are true and lovely
and of good report, is, as nobody would
choose to deny, morally halt and maim
ed. One-half of his faculties, and the
most powerful half, is paralyzed and nse-
less. He is like land which produces
nothing but thistles and brambles.