Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
We should not imagine that all ar
/ friends that flatter or enemies that cen
sure.
IT is with nations as with individuals
those who know the least of others. thinl
/ the highest of themselves.
He knows little of himself or of The
world who does not think it sufficient
happiness to be free from sorrow.
IT is certainly much easier wholly tC
decline passion that to keep it within
Just bounds and measure; and that which
few can moderate almost anybody may
prevent.
MANY who would not for the world
utter faisehood are vet eternallv sehem-
ing to produce false impressions on the
minds of others respecting facts, charac-
ters and opinions.
He who loves not God. nor his broth
er. cannot love the gifts of nature; while
OF the other hand. none can love God
nor his human brother. without loving
all things which his Father loves.
THERE is nothing of which we are apt
to be so lavish as of time. and about
which we ought to be more solicitous
since without it we can do nothing in
this world. Time is what we want most
but what, alas! we use worst.
ALL affectation and display proceed
from the supposition of possessing some
thing better than the rest of the world
possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing
two legs and two arms, because this is
the precise quantity of either sort OF
limb which everybody possesses.
ANGER, heat, exaggeration, violence,
Immature, selfshness, are all foes to good
manners. Self-oOntrol and self-respect
viii diminish them by fOrbidding them
to vent themselves. Kept in subsection,
they will subslde; allowed free express
sion, they will become intolerable.
ALLOWING the performance of an
honorable action to be attended with
labor, the labor is soon over, but the hon
or is immortal; whereas, should even
pleasure wait on the commission of what
is dishOnorable, the pleasure is soon
gone, but the diShOnoI is eternal.
JUSTICE is never so slender to us as
when we first practice it. 1t grows in
the imagination. 1t is enlarged by ex-
perience. 1t includes more elements, it
touches things with a finer stroke -and
it demands more exquisite duties, every
single day and year that man lives,
who lives at all right.
so finely, into the motives of other peO-
pies acting, may possibly be entirely ig-
norant as to his own. 1t is by the men
tai corpOreal eye-the object may be
placed too near the sight to be seen
truly, as well as too far off; nay, too
near to be seen at all.
SOME people are all quality; you would
think they were made up of nothing but
title and genealOgy The stamp of dig
nifty defaces in them the very character
of humanity, and transports them to
such a degree of haughtineSS that they
reckon it below themselves to exercise
either good nature or good manners.
HAVE told you of the Spaniard who
always put on his spectacles when about
to eat cherries, that they might look big
ger and more tempting. mike manner
l make the most of my enjOyments; and
though do not cast my eyes away from
my troubles, l pack them in as little
compass as | can for myself, and never
let them annQy Others.
THERE is nothing that we can proper
ly call our own but our time, and yet
everybody fools us out of it who has
mind to do it. If a man borrows pal
try sum of money, there must needs be
bonds and securities, and every common
civility is presently charged upon ac-
count. But he who has my time thinks
he owes me nothing for it, though it be
debt that gratitude can neyer repay.
THERE is one point in each life at
which all things appear in their true col
Ors. 1t is the point of death. All illu-
sions vanish there. There are no false
estimates of deeds in the light of that
hour. The things we shall wish then
that we had done are things we ought to
have done The things that will look
fair and lovely as we sit in the cleaning
Of life's day are the things that are tru-
ly lovely. The things that will shame
us then are the things that God con-
demns and which we ought not to have
done.
SELFIsHNEss in all its forms is per-
manent foe to cheerfulnesS. There is
perhaps no more prolific source OF dis
content and gloom than that which the
selfish man finds in his narrow aims and
bafiled desires. But where the empha-
sis of life is laid on what is good and
noble, where the life is spent in follow
ing truth and duty, where the affections
are kept alive and warm by sympathy
and kindly deeds, there the blessing of
a cheerful spirit will be sure to follow.
COOP manners are cOnspicuOuSly
shown by attention to friends in sorrow.
Many Dpoulp feel n sort of embarrasS-