Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-23
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tentment for its root and peace for its
fruit.
The best way for man to get out OF a
lowly position il to be conspiciously Ell
! fective in it. -T
THE true rule in business is to guard
and do by the things of others as they do
by their own.
THE way for man to secure himself
from wickedness Is to withdraw from the
examples Of it.
THE great business of morality lies in
restraining the undue pursuit OF pleas
ure and the undue avertion to pain.
THERE is nothing true, good or beauti-
full in this world that comes to Us with
out care or thought or honest labor.
THE greatest thoughts are wronged if
not linked with beauty, and they win
their way most surely when arrayed in
their fit attire.
HAPPY is he who makes another
man trust God more than he did before:
He has done great and influential
work in creation.
FULLER said very beautifully, "He
that spends all his life in sport is like
one who wears nothing but fringe, and
eats nothing but sauces.
IDEAS make their way in silence like
the waters that, filtering behind the
rocks of the Alps, loosen them from the
mountain on which they rest.
A GENIAL man..is both an apostle and
an evangelist; an apostle because he
brings men to Christ; an evangelist be-
cause he portrays Christ to men.
Would that We could persuade our
selves to reverse the telescope through
which we view our neighbours failings:
and turn the magnifying end inward
instead OF outward.
In human life there is constant
change OF fortune, and it is unreasona-
BILE to expect an exemption from the
common fate. Life itself decays, and
all things are daily changing.
A SYMPATHETIC person is placed in the
dilemma of swimmer among drown
ing men, who all catch at him, and ii he
gives 30 much as lag or finger they
will drown him.
ALL passion becomes strength when
it has an outlet from the narrow limits
OF our personal lot in the labor OF our
right arm, the cunning OF our right
hand, or the still. creative activity OF our
thought.
THE most natural beauty in the world
is honesty and moral truth. The fea
lures make the beauty OF face and true
proportion. the beauty'of architecture
as true measures that of harmony and
music.
THERE are thousands OF ponderous
books written by learned doctors, on the
means of attaining happiness, which do
not say as much for the peace of the soul
as this simple sentence: "Our Father,
Thy will be DONE"
PEOPLE are apt to pay you in the self
same coin you pass on them. II you give
the gold OF love you will get gold in re-
turn, and if you give the brass OF i'm
pertinence you will get it back again be-
fore many days.
A NATION cannot last asa money-mak-
ing mob; it cannot with impunity-it
cannot with existence-go on despising
literature, despising science, despising
dTt, ueSdlSlllp COHlpsiSoloil, aiii Ioilth-
trating its soul on mere lucre.
The only perfect friendship subsits
among those who resemble each other
in. virtue, because those who love their
friends for their virtue, love them for
what is not a temporary appendage, but
a permanent essential in their character.
II you want knowlenge, you must toll
for it; if food, you must toll for it; and
if pleasure, YOU must toll for 1t. Toll il
the law. Pleasure comes through toll,
and not by self-indulgence and indo-
lence. When one gets to love work his
life is happy one.
IL one eats with the wild Bedouins,
they will protect him. But some who
profess to be Christians will partake of
the hospitality of brother, act in the
NEST friendlb manner, and then go away
and betray his confidence and talk
against him in the most shameless man.
ner.
THE hardest thing to get good hold |
on is your tongue. If you could only
keep still at the right time you would
save yourself many heartache. 1t is
far better to live in smoky house, and
to live on cheese and garlic, than to |
abide with a man or woman whose
tongue is in perpetual motion.