Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-25
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


4 GOOD deed or a kind word is never
thrown away.
He is yOung enough who has health,
and he is rich enough who has no debts.
IT is more manly to fail in hundred
enterprises than to sit down and grum-
bic at those who are trying.
He whose first emotion on the view of
an excellent production is to undervalue
it will never have one of his own to show.
IF in doing an act we saw a chain
winding around our bodies we should be
alarmed. But habit binds chains by ev-
cry deed.
NATURE is upheld by antagonisms
Passions, resistance, danger, are educa-
tors. We acquire the strength We have
overcome.
WHEN you are down-hearted, and the
world looks black to you, you ought to
be hoSpitable enough to entertain hope
of better days.
As THE soil, however rich it may be,
cannot produce without culture, so the
mind, without cultivation, can never
produce good fruit.
POLITENESS has been defined to be ar
tificial gOOd-nature; but we may affirm,
with much greater propriety, that good
nature is natural politeness.
GOOD intentions are at least the seeds
of good actions; and every man ought
to SOW them, and leave it to the soil and
season whether they come up or no.
CUNNING leads to knavery; it is but
step from one to the other, and that very
slippery; lying only makes the difference;
add to that cunning, and it is knavery.
THE truest courage is always mixed
with circumspeetion; this being the
quality which distinguishes the courage
of the wise from the hardness of the
rash and foolish.
IN all the affairs of human life, social
as well as political, courtesies of small
and trivial character are the ones which
strike deepest to the grateful and ap-
preciating heart.
THE common practice of cunning is
the sign of small genius; it almost al
ways happens that those who use it to
cover themselves in one place lay them
seves open in another.
NOTHING can supply the place of books
They are cheering or soothing compan-
ions in solitude, illness, affections. The
wealth of both continents would not
compensate for the good they impart.
A BITTER word may make a wound
that will never heal. A kind word may
win a friend that will never turn. A
caution may save soul; and yet silence
is sometimes more stinging, and at 9TH
er times more soothing than any word.
THE amelioration of the condition of
mankind, and the increase of human
happiness, ought to be the leading OBJ
jects of every political institution, and
the aim of every individual, according
to the measure of his power, in the sit
uation he occupies.
IT has always been more difficult for a
man to keep than to get; for, in the one
case, fortune aids, which often assists
but in the other case, sense is
required. Therefore, we often see a per-
son deficient in cleverness rise to wealth;
and then, from want of sense, roll head
over heels to the bottom
THE first use of education is to enable
us to consult with the wisest and great
est of men on all points of earnest diff |
fculty. To use books rightly, is to go
to them for help; to appeal to them,
when our own knowledge and power of |
decision have failed; to be led by them |
into wider sight, purer conception than
our own, and receive from them the |
united sentence of the judges and coun-
ellis of all time, against our solitary and
opinion.
IL hdo a od.l lnS VI Cuc uISI NdpOltOu |
that every man should make his 0ppor-
tunities- chances. But, as a gener-
al thing, while ten men watch for chanc-
es, only one makes chances; while ten
men wait for something to turn up, only
one turns something up; so while ten
men fail, one succeeds, and is called a
man of luck and the favorite of fortune.
There is no luck like pluck, and fortune
most favOrs those who are most indiffer-
ant to fortune.
LET him not imagine who aims at
greatness that all is lost by single ad-
verse cast of fortune; for if fortune has
1t one time the better of courage, cour-
lge may afterward recover the advan-
age. He who is prepossessed with the
assurance of overcoming, at least over
comes the fear of failure; whereas he
Who is apprehensiye of losing loses, in
eality, all hopes of subduing. Boldness
md power are such inseparable compan-
onS that they appear to be born togeth-
#; and when once divided, they both
lecay and die at the same time.
THERE are never too many flowers in
his world, and not one kind word too
many has ever yet been spoken.