Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

| IMITATATION is born with us, bu
what we ought to initiate is not easil
discovered.
SOME men do as much begrudge 9th
ers a good name, as they want on
themselves! and perhaps that is the rea
son of it.
A SWEET spirit, like the scented flow
er, has a fragrance to cast upon the patti
of every one who passes by. 1t has al
so for itself rare life of love that every
one admires.
POLITENEss is, in business, what STRAIT
agem is in war. 1t gives power to weak
ness, supplies great deficiencies, ani
overcomes the enemy with but little
sacrifice of time and blood.
THE world is, to be sure, all out OF
sorts, and it ought to be turned upside
down and emptied out, in all probabili-
ty; but you can't help it by getting souI
at everybody and everything.
CONSTANT success shows us but one
side of the world, for it surrounds us
with flatterers who will tell us only ouI
merits, and silences our enemies from
whom we alone might learn our defects.
DUTIES are ours; events are Gods.
This removes an infinite burden from
the shoulders of a miserable, tempted,
dying creature. On this consideration
only can he securely lay down his head
and close his eyes.
THE richest endowments of the mind
are temperance, prudence and fortitude.
Prudence is a universal virtue, which
enters into the composition of all the
rest; where she is not, fortitude loses its
name and nature.
ART is long, life short, Judgment diff
ficult, opportunity fleeting. To act is
easy, to think is difficult; to act accord
ing to our thoughts is troublesome. Ev-
cry beginning is agreeable; the threshold
is the place of expectation.
IN free and republican government
you cannot restrain the voice of the null
titude. Every man will speak as he
thinks, or, more properly, without think
ing, and consequently will judge of eff
fects without attending to their causes.
IT is remarkable that Providence has
given us all things for our advantage near
at hand; but iron, gold and silver, being
both the instruments of blood and
slaughter and the price of it, nature has
hidden in the bowels of the earth.
No MAN takes care to live well, but
long, when yet it is in everybody's pow
er to do the former, and in no mans to
do the latter. We consume our lives in
the very instruments of life,
and govern ourselves still with regard
to the future, so that we do not properly
live, but are about to live.
SUCH is the condition of life, that
is always wanting to happi-
ness. In youth we have warm hopes,
which are soon blasted by rashness and
negligence; and great designs, which are
defeated by ineXperience. In age, we
have knowledge and prudence, without
spirit to exert or motives to prompt
them.
TINE is a grim banker. He places so
much to your credit on your entrance
upon life's stage. After this you can
not add to the deposit, but you are COM
DelIed to constantly decrease it. When
it is all exhausted, your name is strick-
IN from the books forever. Make the |
most of each day; it may be the last
lollar to your credit in Times bank.
To MAKE our reliance upon PrOvi- |
lence both pious and rational, we should,
n every great enterprise we take in
land, prepare all things with that care,
diligence and activity as if there were
10 such thing as Providence for us to
depend upon; and again, when we have
lone all this, we should as wholly and
lumbly rely upon it as if we had made
10 preparation at all.
WE talk of human life as journey,
,ut how variously is that journey per
ormedl There are those who come
orth girt, and shod, and mantled, to
walk on velvet lawns and smooth ter
aces; where every gale is arrested and
very beam is tempered. There are 9TH
rs who walk on the Alpine paths of
ife, against driving misery, and through
tormy sorrows, over sharp afflictions;
walk with bare feet and naked breast,
AIDED, mangled and chilled.
DISEASE generally begins that equali-
Y which death completes; the distinc-
ions which set one man so much above
mother are very little perceived in the
.loom of sick chamber, where it will
e vain to expect entertainment from
he gay, or instruction from the wise;
ghere all human glory is obiterated, the
,it is clOuded, the reasoner perplexed
nd the hero subdued; where the high
st and brightest of mortal beings finds
othing left him but the consciousness
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