Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-25
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Trifles make perfection, but perfection
is no. o.trifie.
Idleness is the sepulchre of the living
man.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is
flower without perfume
Where Satan cannot go himself he
takes wine as his messenger
The drying of single tear has more
of honest fame. than shedding. seas OF
gore.
Punch knows young man who is SO
lazy that he viii not labor under an I'M
preston.
What did blind wood sawyer take
to restore his sight? He took his horse
and saw.
No cloud can overshadow a Christian,
but the eye of faith will discern a rain
bow in it.
Not to Improve the occasion" merely,
but TO know the occasion to improve,
this is the truest wisdom.
God has sown seeds within us-seeds
of ympathy-whose buds virtue, such
as bloom in heaven.
The aim of an honest mans life is not
the happiness which serves only him
self, but the virtue which is useful to
others.
Every parent is like a Iooking-glais
for his children to dress themselves by.
Parents, therefore, should take cars to
keep the glass bright and clear.
Let no one count the number of his
friends till they have been boIted in the
sieve of his own adversely, for there is
much bran in prosperous friendship.
The selfish mans head is Ikea mans
coffin; is just his own measure, long
enough and broad enough to hold him
self, with room for no one else.
No man, whether rich or poor, can
make or retain good and useful posi-
ton in life, without the two valuable
habits. of punctuality and temperance.
Says Ruski: "You know that to give
aims is nothing unless you give thought
also; and that therefore it is written, not
Blessed is he that .feedeth the poor but
'Blesseth is he that conSidereth the
poor.
President Edwards says, eternal
things are SO great, and of such vast
concern, that there is great absurdity in
being but moderately moved and affect
ed by them"
Jenkins is not going to do anything
more i'll conunurums. he recently
asked his wife the difference between
his head and hogs head, and she said
there was none. He says that Is not the
! right answer.
There are cases in which a man would
| be ashamed not to have been imposed
upon. There is confidence necessary
| to human intercourse, and without
which men are often more injured by
their own suspicious, than they could
be by the pertidy oi others.
| That man who attempts to bring down
and depreciate those who are above
him, does not thereby elevate himself.
| He rather sinks himself, while those
whom he traduces are rather benefited
than injured by the ISLANDERS Of one so
base as he.
"Dar are" said a sable orator, ''two
roads through dis world. De one am a
broad and narrow road that leads to
perdition, and the uddeF am q narrow
and broad road dat leads to sure .des-
truetion." !" "If dat am de case" said a
heareF, "dis culled individual takes to
de woods"
A farmer, who wished to invest the
accumulations of his industries in Uni
ted States securities. wentto Jay Cookies
Office to obtain treasury notes. The
clerk inquired:
what denomination viii you have
them in sir?"
Having never heard that word used,
excepting to distinguish religious sects,
the farmer, after little deliberation,
replied:
aWell, you may give me part in Old
School sPresbyterians to please the old
tlady, but give me the heft ont in Free
Will Baptist ~ e