Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-22


which lives through time and trial, and
that which withers before it is ripe, like
cut grass spread beneath burning sun
CHOICE EXCERPTS,
SOME men have Sunday soul. which
they screw on in due time, and take of
again Monday morning.
THE love that lives is independent OF
all outward and material circumstances
1t can be killed only from within.
IF the passions sometimes influence
US more than the judgment, it is be
cause they give us more force to execute
them.
IF man empties his purse into his
head no man can can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge al
ways pays the best interest
THE opinions of the misanthopical
rest upon this very partial basis, that
they adopt the bad faith of a few as ev-
idence of the worthleSsness of all.
FLATTERY is often traffic of mutual
meanness, where, although both parties
intend deception, neither are deceived,
since words that cost little are exchang-
ed for hopes that cost less.
THE knowledge which we have ac-
quired ought not to resemble great
shop without order, and without an in
ventory; we ought to know what we
possess, and be able to make it serve us
| in need.
OUR strength often increases in proper
tion to the obstacles which are imposed
upon it; it is thus that we enter upon
the most perilous plans after having
had the shame of failing in more simple
ones.
TRUE eloquence does not consist in
speech. 1t cannot be brought from far.
Labor and learning may toll in vain.
Words and phrases may be marshaled in
every way, but they cannot compass it.
1t must exist in the man, in the subject
and in the occasion.
| VICIOUS habits are so great a stain to
human nature, and so odious in them
selves, that every person actuated by
right reason would avoid them, though
he were sure they would be always con
cealed both from God and man, and had
no future punishment entailed upon
them.
THE truth of our individual ability to
have share in raising the Eternal Tenn
pie is full of comfort and encourage
ment. The child's hand may mould,
the poor mans arm may carry, the strug-
Cling widow may adorn, the aged saint
may set in place there, some token with
whom God is well pleased.
THOSE who are in the power of evil
habits must conquer them as they can
and conquered they must be, or neither
wisdom nor happiness can be attained;
but those who are yet subject to their
influence may, by timely caution, pre-
serve their freedom they may effectually
resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they
will very yainly resolve to conquer.
EVERY failure is step to success; ev-
cry detection of what is false directs us
toward what is true; every trial exhausiS
some tempting form of error. Not only
so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely
failure; scarcely any theory, the result
of steady thought, is altogether false; no
tempting form of error is without some
latent charm derived from truth.
As THE language of the face is uni
versal, so is it very comprehensive. No
laconism can reach it. 1t is the short
hand of the mind, and crowds a great
deal in little room. A man may look
a sentence as soon as speak word. The
strokes are small, but so mastery drawn
that you may easily collect the image
and proportions of what they resemble.
FACTS are to the mind the same thing
as food to the body. On due digestion
of facts depend the strength and wisdom
of the one, just as VigOr and health de-
pend on the other. The wiseSt in coun-
Gil, the ablest in debate, and the most
dSloCtblc COln pdllOH III GIIe COulHl0IC6
of human life, is that man who has as
simulated to his understanding the great
est number of facts.
Books are a guide in youth, and an
entertainment for age. They support
us under solitude, and keep us from be-
coming burden to ourselves, They
help us to forget the crossness of men
and things, compose our cares and our
passions, and lay our disappointments
asleep. When we are weary of the Iiv-
ing, we may repair to the dead. who
have nothing of peevishness, pride, or
design in their conversation,
As TIE stream gradually wears the
channel deeper in which it runs, and
thus becomes more surely bound to its
accustomed course, so the current of the
mind and heart grows more and more
to the course In which habit
has taught them to flow. These intel
lectual and moral habits form many pc,
of character, and chiefly dis
tinguish one individual from another.
They are therefore of tha utmost i'm