Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-08

he can do deserves refusal.
TEMPERANCE is a tree that has con.
tentment for its root and peace for its
fruit.
To thine own self be true; and it must
follow, as the night the day, thou canst
not then be false to any man.
CHEERFULNEsS is the current coin OF
happiness, and not, like other possess
ions, merely its letter of credit.
HAVE heard a grave divine say that
God had two dwellings in heaven
and the other in meek and thankful
heart.
A MAN should learn to detect and
watch that gleam of light which flashes
across his mind from within, more than
the luster of the armament of the bards
and sages.
BE cheerful always. If in misery and
pain, remember that it is long lane that
has no turning, and that when you dc
get to that turning you will be out OF
your trouble.
INCIvILITY is not a vice of the soul
but the effect of several vices-0f vani;
ity, ignorance of duty, laziness, stupidi-
ty, distraction, contempt of others, and
undue jealousy.
EDUCATION is as important to the
child as culture to earth. You are toe
wise to expect crops without planting
1t is just as rational to expect improve
ment without education.
WE do not care for substitutes fol
what we have lost; what we want is a
resurrection of our dead loves, our past
joys. We feel safer and surer with what
we have already experienced. The hope
that is set before us in the gospel ap-
peals to this universal human feeling.
AN obtuse and stolid adherence to
things as they are should never be dig
niied by the name of loyalty. If no
one changed his ideas or methods, if no
one lifted his thoughts OF his conduct
from lower to higher plane, the
world would stand still and stagnation
would ensue.
WHAT most directly and above every
thing else makes us happy is cheerful
ness of mind, for this excellent gift is its
own reward. A man may be young,
well-favored, rich, honored, fortunate,
but if we would ascertain whether or no
he would be happy, we must first put the
question, Is he cheerful?
THE despisers of mankind apart from
the mere fools and mimics of that creed
are of two sorts. They who believe
their merits neglected and unapprecia-
ted make up one class; they who re-
ceive adulation and flattery, knowing
their own worthlessness, compose the
other. Be sure that the coldest hearted
misanthropes are ever of this last order.
To seem not to hear remarks which
are intended to annoy you is a species
of negative insincerity which is in many
cases commendable. 1t disappoints and
battles the insulter and prevents profit
less war of words. Such dissimulation
may be the means of preventing breach
of the peace; and the "easier way is the
best" when the other way is not impera-
tive.
To change vague and aimless wishes
to or ond otfoafuol daciroo ic in,
portant part of all improvement. 1t is
the earnest and persevering effort to do
the present duty in the best possible
to relax no power in its dis
charge, and to waste no time in lament
ations over what might have been, that
is the secret of all good work and the ell
ement of all progress,
ONE of the main points in education
ought to be to form the habit of treating
everything as the possible subject of
great number of questions, some of
which at least must be asked and an
swered before the thing can be in any
true sense understood. Habit is every
thing; and, if the habit of asking ques-
tions arranged under certain categories
could once be formed, the victory of in
telligence over mental inertia would be
THE test of true loyalty which each
one may put to himself is, "Am faith
full to truth, to right, to duty, to lover
Am constant to the best methods l can
ind-to the ideas l can form?" To
do this much must sometimes be resign |
ed, just as in the ascent of a mountain
many pleasant resting places must be |
eft behind. He who is thus loyal to
MS best conceptions will never be dis
oyal to his nation or his party or his
friend.
WE cannot benefit ourselves without
Denefiting others also. If we are cheer
'ul, happy and well, we brighten and in
7igorate them; if we gain knowledge,
ne communicate it; if we grow strong
md courageous, we afford protection
md infuse courage; if we are noble and
rue, others breathing our spiritual at
nosphere become also nobler and truer.
we intend it or not, we are al
Ways either helping or hurting others
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