Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-03-28
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

Four things come not back: The spo
ken word; the sped arrow; the past life
the neglected opportunity.
BE rude to none; rudeness harms nO
even the humblest and poorest to whom
it is directed, but it Injuries the exhibi
tors.
MASTER thyself; so mayest thou teacf
Others, and easily tame them. after hav,
ing tanned thyself; for self is hardest tC
tame.
In proportion as nations get more cor
rupt, more disgrace will be considered
to attach to poverty. and more respect
to wealth.
SUFFERING becomes beautiful wheI
any one bears great calamities with
cheerfulness, not through insensibility
but through greatness of mind.
SOME people. think black is the color
of heaven, and that the more they car
make their faces look like midnight. the
more evidence they have of grace.
To PARDON those absurdities in our.
selves which we cannot suffer in Others
is neither better nor worse than to be
more willing to be fools ourselves than
to have others so.
SCARCELY have l ever heard OF read
the Introductory phrase, Il may say
without vanity" but some striking and
characteristic instance of vanity has I'M
mediately followed.
NOTHING is so uncertain as general
reputation. A man Injuries me from
humOr, passion, or interest; hates me
because he has injured me, and speaks
i'll of me because he hates me.
PROFANITY never did any man the
least good. No man is richer, or happier,
or wiser for it. 1t cOmmends no one to So
ciety; it is disgusting to the refined and
abominable to the good.
EDUCATION and instruction are the
meanS-the one by use, the other by pre-
cept-to make our natural faculty of
reason both the better and the sooner to
judge rightly between truth and error,
good and evil.
THERE are two modes of establishing
our reputation; to be praised by honest
men, and to be abused by rogues. 1t is
best, however, to secure the former, be-
cause it will be, invariably, accompanied
by the latter.
THE tender words and loving deeds
which we scatter for the hearts which
are nearest to us are immortal seeds, that
will spring up in everlasting beauty, not
only in our own lives, but in the lives
of those born after US.
HEAVEN and God are best discerned
through tears; scarcely perhaps are dis
cerned at all without them. The con-
slant association of prayer with the horr
of bereavement and the scenes of death
suffice to show this.
ALWAYS win fools first. They talk
much, and what they have once uttered
they will stick to; whereas, there is al
ways time, up to the last moment, to
bring before wise man arguments that
may entirely change his opinion.
OUR nature is like the sea, which gains
by the flow of the tide in one place what
it has lost by the ebb in another. A man
may acquiesce in the method which God
takes to mortify his pride; but he is in
danger of growing proud of the NORTH
cation.
NATURE has made us passive, and to
suffer is our lot. While we are in the
flesh every man has his chain and his
clog; only it is looser and lighter to one
man than to another, and he is more at
ease who takes it up and carries it than
he who drags it.
COMPOSE thy mind, and prepare thy
soul calmly to obey. Such offering will
be more acceptable to God than every
other sacrifice. He who sheds the blood
Of victim offers the blood of another
at His throne; he who obeys offers up
MS own will as gift.
METHOD means, primarily, way or
path of transit. From this we are to
understand that the first idea of method
IS progressive transition from one step
% another in any course. If in the
light course, it will be the true method:
f in the wrong, we cannot hope to
DEMEAN thyself more warily in thy
study than in the street; if thy public
lctions have hundred witnesses. thy
private have a thousand. The multi
;ude looks upon thy actions; thy con-
science looks into them. The multitude
nay chance to excuse thee, if not acquit
hee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if
lot condemn thee.
GRAINS OF GOLD.
1t is fraud to conceal fraud.
A small lie is nevertheless a lie.