Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-10
Ghuiff Aisffllauy.

Sci. knowledge lies at the very thresh
hold of all divine knowledge.
Character is the essence of destiny
and habits soon form and fix character
A good word is an easy obligation; no
to speak i'll requires only your silence.
Strive to make everybody happy, ane
you will make at least one so-yourself
For rjustexperience tells, in every soil
that those that think must govern those
that toll.
The soul is the life of the body. Faith
is the life of the soul. Christ is the life
of faith.
The pen tipped with delicate courte
sizes hath quickened more joy than wo
mans smile.
Ifgood men are sad, it is not because
they are good, but because they are not
better.
We can never sin with security but il
place where the eye of God cannot be-
hold us.
Let us go always beyond the duties
marked out and keep within the peas
ures permitted
WE see so darkly into futurity, we nev.
er know when we have real cause to re-
joice or lament.
ADAM was the only man that never
tantalized his wife about 1.-THE way moth
er used to cook"
Who does the best his circumstances
allows, does well, acts nobly-angels
could do no more.
Peace is the evening star of the soul,
and virtue is its sun; the two are never
far from each other.
True goodness is like the glow-wvrm
it shines most when no eyes except
those of heaven are upon it. t-s
5 Four things come not back: the
spoken word, the sped arrow, the past
life, and the neglected opportunity.
Be noble, and the nobleness that lives
in other men, sleeping but never dead,
will rise in majesty to meet your own.
Many of the waves of trouble, like
those of the ocean, will, if we await them
calmly, break at our feet and disappear.
To do good is the proper business of
life; to qualify for earnestness and effi-
cheney in doing good, is the true end of
education.
John g. Whittier says: Nothing that
I have done has satisfied me; and am
painfully sensible of my defects as a
writer, but [ suppose no one comes up to
the ever-eluding idea"
THAT man hath but an ill life of it,
who feeds himself with the faults and
frailties of other people If curiosity
was the purveyor, destruction would soon
be starved into tameness.
five scrutinize the lives of men of
genius we shall find that activity and
persistence are their leading peculiari-
ties. Obstacles cannot intimidate; nor
labor weary, nor drudgery disgust them.
1t is our duty to pray and look for
free salvation every day, every hour,
every moment without waiting till we
have either done or suffered more
Why should not this be the accepted
time.
Memory presides over the past; action
presides over the present. The first
lives in a rich temple hung with glori-
GUS trophies, and lined with tombs; the
other has no shrine but duty, and it
walks the earth like spirit.
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The moment man gives way to in
ordinate desire, disquietude and torment
take possession of his heart. The proud
and the covetous are uever at rest; but
the humble and poor in spirit possess
their souls in the plenitude of peace.
If a seaman should turn back every
time he encounters a head wind, he
would never make q voyage. So he
who permits himself to be baff1ed by
adverse circumstances, will never make
headway in the voyage of life.
A MANS true wealth hereafter is the
good he does in this world to his fellow
man. When he dies, people will say.
Whatproperty has he left behind him.
But the angels, who examine him, will
ask, "What good deeds hast thou sent
before thee?"
The ruin of most men dates from some
vacant hour Occupation is the armor
of the soul. There is satirical poem,
in which the devil is represented as
fishing for men, and fitting his habits
to the taste and business of his prey,
but the idler, he said gave him no
trouble, as he bit the naked hook.
THE consciousness of truth nerves the
timid and imparts dignity and firmness
to their actions. 1t is an eternal prin-
ciple of honor which renders the posses
sor superior to fear; it is always consist
ent with itself, and needs ne ally. Its
influence will remain when the lustre of
that once sparkled and dazzled has
passed away.
THE Roof of the World is the name