Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-11

May they all hear, ''Well done,
Thou good and faithful, take the crown"
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SLANDER.3
SANDER is the solace of lignity.-Joubert.
On Rumors tongne continual ISLANDERS ride
Shakespeare.
No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongae
Sir P. Sidney.
Soft-buzzing. SANDER; silly moths, that eat
an honest name.-Thompson.
SANDER is the revenue of a coward, and
dissimulstion his defense.-Johnson. H-
Where it concerns himself, who is angry at
islander makes it true.-Ben johnson.
If SANDER be snake, it is a winged one
1t flies as well as creeps.-Douglas Jerrcld.
The slander of some people is as great re-
commendstiop as the praise of others.-Field-
ing.
There would not be so many open mouths
there were not so many open ears.-Bishop
Hall
Calumny would soon starve and die Of it.
sell If nobody took it in and gave it lodging.
Leighton. -
Slander meets no regard from noble minds;
only the base believe what the base only utter
Butler.
Set a watbh over thy mouth, and keep the
door ofthy lips, for q tale-bearer is worse than
o thief.-Bible.,
Slander, whose edge is sharper than the
sword, whose tongue outvenoms all the worms
of Nile.-Shakspeare --
There is nobody so weak, of invention
that cannot make some little stories to villify
his enemy.-Addison.
1t is always to be understood that a lady
takes all you detract from the rest of her sex
as gift tc her.-Addison.
1t is busy, talking world, that, with licen-
tious breath, blows, like the wind, as freely
on the palace as the eottege-Rowe.
Slander soaks into the mind as water into
low and marshy places, where it becomes
stagnant and offensive -ConfuCius
The proper way to check SANDER is to de-
spise it; attempt 10 overtake and refute it, and
it will outrun you.-Alex. Dumas.
Slander is VOicesthat strikes double blow,
woundlng both him that commits and him
against whom it is mmitted-Saurin.
As by fiattery man opens his bosom to his
mortal enemy, so by detraction and SANDER
he shuts the same to his best friends. ds.-South.
The worthiest people are the most injured
by slander, as we usually find that to be the
best fruit which the birds have been pecking
at.-SwIft.
The best way is to slander Valentine with
falsehood, cowardice and poor descent-three
things that women highly hold on hate-Shaks
peare.
Those who, without knowing us, think OF
speak evil of US, do us. no harm: it is not Us
they attack bun the phantom of their own i'm
agination.-Bruyere.
Curse the tongue whence slanderous rumor,
like the adder's drop, details her venom, with.
erlng friendships faith turning loves favor, -
John A Hillhouse
Slander is perhaps the only vice which nc
circumstance can palliate, as well as being one
which we are most ingenious in concealing
from ourselves. es.-Masslllon.
Believe nothing against another. but on
good authority, nor report what may hurt an
other, unlest 1t be greater hurt to another tC
conceal it.-Wilham Penn! e
Listen not to. the tale-bearer, for he tells
thee nothing out of good win; but as he dis
covereth OF the secrets of others, SO he viii OF
thine In turn.-Socrates s.
In all cases Of SANDER currency, whenever
the forger Of the lie is not to be found, the in.
lured parties..should have right to come on
any OF the MISUNDERSTANDING.
Life would be a perpetual fiea-h hunt if a man
were obliged to run down all the inuendoes,
inyeracitles, insinuations and suspicious which
are uttering against him.-Beecher.
If any one tells you that such a person
speaks Ill of you, but answer: she was igno,
rant of any other faults, else he would not
have mentioned these alone. ."-Epictetus.
1t is pretty general rule that the medisante
is a termagant in her household; and as for
our own sex, in nine casef out of ten, the evil
tongue belongs to disappointed man.-Ban.
croft.
There is nothing which wings its fight SC
swiftly as cslunny nothing which is uttered
with more ease nothing is listened to with
more readiness; nothing dispersed more wide
ly.-Cicero,
What indulgence does the world extend to
those evil-speakers, who, under the mask of
friendship, stab indiscriminately with the
keen though rusty blade of slander. Madame
Roland.
- The surest method against scandal is to live
it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by
prayer to God, that he would cure the distem-
pered mind OF those who traduce and injure
us.-Boerhaaye.
Close thine ear against him that shall open
his mouth secretly against another. If thou
receivest not his words they fly back and
wound the reporter. If thou dost receive
them, they fly forward, and wound the re-
ceiver.-Lavater.
ANY one who is much talked of must be
much maligned. This seems to be harsh
conclusion; but when you consider how much
more given men are to depreciate than 10 ap.
preciate, you will acknowledge that there is
some truth in the saying.
If any speak i'll Of thee, flee home to thy
own conscience, and examine thine heart; Il
thou be guilty, it is a just correction ); if not
guilty, it is a fair instruction; make use OF
both; so shalt thou distl honey out of gall.
and out of an open enemy create secret
friend--Quarles. q,
How frequently is the honesty and integri.
ty of man disposed Of by a smile or shrup!
dow many good and generous actions have
been sunk into oblivion by distrustful look,
or stamped with the imputation of proceedtne
from bad motives, by mysterious and season.
able whisper.-Sterne.