Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

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CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WHAT place is so rugged and so home
/ ly that there is no beauty, if we Onl,
have a sensibiIity to beauty?
WE neglect the advantages we have
and think that we should do it if W,
were something else than what we are.
All false practices and affectatiOns o
knowledge are more Odious to God, ant
deserve to be so to men, than any wan
or defect of knowledge can be.
THE star l was born under tells me t.
look up. If we didn't come into thi:
world to better ourselves, we might as
well have stayed where we were.
A GENTLE heart is like ripe fruit
which bends so low that it is at the mer
cy of every one who chooses to pluck it
while the harder fruit keeps out of reach
PROSPERITY shines on different per
sons much in the same way that the SUI
shines on different objects. Some i
hardens like mud, while others it soft
ems like wax.
POWER, unless managed with gentle
ness and discretion, does but make a
man the more hated. No intervals ol
good humor, no starts of bounty, vii
atone for tyranny and oppression.
IT may be remarked for the comfort
of honest poverty, that avarice reigns
most in those who have but few good
qualities to recommend them. This is
a weed that will only grow in a barren
soil.
THE truly great and good in atfliction
bear cOuntenance more princely than
they are wont; for it is the temper of
the highest heart, like the palm tree, tO
strive most upward when it is most bur
dened.
HOURS have wings and fly up to the
Author of Time, and carry news of
our usage; all our prayers cannot entreat
one of them to return or Slacken his
pace; the i'll usage of every minute is a
new record against us in heaven.
CHILDREN should be Injured as early
as possible to acts of charity and mer-
cy. Constantine, as soon as his son
could write, employed his hand in writ
ing pardons, and delighted in conveying
through his mouth all the favors he
granted.
IT is proper that aims should come
out of little purse as well as out of a
great sack; but surely where there is
plenty, charity is duty, not courtesy;
it is tribute imposed by heaven upon
us, and he is not a good subject who re-
fuses to pay it.
ALL the passions of our animal ma
ture are increased by indulgence. If
they are improperly INDUCED, they will
triumph in our ruin. They will Oblit-
crate those heayen-born qualities of our
minds which, if properly cultivated, as
simulate us to angels and bring us home
to God.
EMULATION is grief arising from see
ing ones self exceeded or excelled by
his concurrent, together with hope to
equal or exceed him in time to come, by
his own ability. But envy is the same
grief Joined with pleasure conceived in
the imagination of some ill-fortuue that
may befall him.
TIE passions are at once tempters and
chastisers. AS tempters, they come with
garlands of flowers on brows of youth;
as chastisers, they appear with wreathS
of snakes on the forehead of deformity.
They are angels of light in their delu-
sion; they are fiendS of torment in their
infections.
GIVE me the boy who rouSes when he
is praised, who profits when he is en-
coUraged, and who cries when he is de-
feated. Such boy will be fired by am
bition; he will be stung by reproach,
and animated by preference; never shall
| apprehend any bad consequences from
in such boy.
w Hen you Nave gwen over Jne pTdc-
tice of stated prayer, you gradually be-
come weaker without knowing it. Sam
son did not know he had lost his strength
till the Philistines came upon him; you
will think yourselves the men you used
to be, till suddenly your adversary will
come furiously upon you, and you will
as suddenly fall
WHEN we pray for any virtue, we
should cultivate the virtue as well as
pray for it; the form of our prayer should
be the rule of life; every petition to God
is a precept to man. Look not, there
fore, upon your prayers as a short meth
cd of duty; by what we require of God
we see what He requires of us.
SELFGsTINESs, by its own law, not only
moves in simple circles, but is short
lived. What men do for themselves is
soon expended, and is soon forgotten.
Only that part of a mans life which in
cludes other mems good, and especially
the public good, is likely to be felt long
after he himself is dead