Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-06-13
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and awe to wrinkled skin and gray
hairs.-R. w. Emerson.
Death is like the thunder; we ars
alarmed at the sound of II, but it is on
ly formidable from that which pre-
cedes it. i .f..t.rr #.
Look we'll into thyself; there Is q
source which will always springs up il
thou wilt always search there.-Mar.
Gus Anthony. S'
If we would begin by thanking God
for all the joys we owe him, we should
have little time left to complain of our
vexatioDs.-VacatiOn Days.
Very few persons go into an argu.
ment in order to discover the truth OF
the matter. They want to hold their
own and rout the enemy. Hence the
general loss OF temper 3
In his Good Friday sermon Cardinal
Manning defined society" as "a con-
spiracy Of fools, fashion, custom, mutu,
al fattery, eating, drinking and refined
hardness Of heart"
The mind has q certain vegetative
power, which cannot be wholly idle.
II it is not laid out and cultivated into
up weeds or flowers of a wild growth.
Steele.
Talent is power; tact is skill. Tai
ent makes man respectable; tact
makes him respected. Talent convin-
ces; tact converts. Talent commands;
tact is obeyed. Talent is something;
tact Is everything.
The magnanimOus know very well
that they who give time or money or
shelter to the strangeF-so 1t be done
for love and not for OstentatiOn-dO, as
it were, put God under obligation to
them, 50 perfect are the compensations
OF the univer5e.-Eme
''If any one speaks i'll of thee" said
Epictetus, "cOnsider whether he hath
truth on his side, and if 80, reform thy.
self, that his censures may not affect
thee" When Anaximander was told
that the very boys laughed at his sing
ing, "Ah!" said he, ''then / must
learn to sing better"
I, Truth from goodness, is soft and gen.
tie; falsehood from evil, is hard and
fierce; hence the origin of hard and
bitter speeches. Goodness of dispOsi-
tion mauifests itself by gentleness and
sweetness; by gentleness, in that it is
afraid to do hurt, and by sweetness, Ia
that 1t loves to do gOod.-SwedenbOrg.
q DIR. Kane, finding q flower under the
Humboldt glacier, was mere affected
by it because it grew beneath the lip
and cold bosom Of the ice than he
would have been by the most gorge
GUS garden bloom. So some struggling
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from favoring influences may be dear
or to God than q whole catalogue of
virtues in the life Of one who has
known little of the discipne of trial.
Goddess science, says Coley, reads
Nature as MiltOn's daughters did He-I
brew-righily sylIabling the sentences,
but utterly ignorant of the meaning.
Said Douglas Jerald, 81 knew q man
who could speak tiVe-and-tWenty Ian
guages, and never said anything worth
hearing In any OF them" So, until
the moral nature Is open to truth, q
man is blind to the real beauty and
Significance OF the facts acquired.
All ills spring from some vice, Ell
ther in ourselves or Others; and even
many of our diseases spring from the
same origin. Remove the vices and
the Ills follow. You must only take
care to remove all the vices. II you
remove part, you may render the mat
ter worse. By banishing vicious luxu-
~, without curing slosh and an indif-
ference to others, you only diminish
industry In the State and add nothing
to men's charity or their generosity.
Hume. q ' af
Idleness is the badge of gentry, theI
bsne of body and mind, the nurse OF
naughtiness, the stepmOther of disci-
pline, the chief author of all mischief,
one Of the seven deadly sihs, the cush.
ion upon which the devil reposes, and
a great cause not only of melancholy,
but OF many other diseases; for thel
mind Is naturally active, and If it be
not occupied about some honest husi-
ness, It rushes into mischief or sinks
Into melancholy. Burton.