Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-04
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


HEALTH is the only riches that MAJ
ought TO set value on, ror without i
all men are poor, let their estates b.
what they will.
PLEASURE and good differ from ont
another in this respeet-that the gooC
may not be pursued for the sake OF
pleasure, but for the sake of good.
THE life of man is made up of action
and endurance; and life is fruitful il
the ratio In which it is laid out in noble
action or in patient perseverance.
To HEAR always, to think always, to
learn always, it is thus that we live tru-
ly. He who aspires to nothing, who
learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
IT is only imperfectiOn that complains
of what is imperfect. The more perfect
we are, the more gentle and quiet we
become toward the defects of others.
IT seems to me that the spirit of pc.
liteness is certain attention In causing
that, by our words and our manners
others may be content with us and with
themselves.
He who stops short where stopping is
not allowable, will stop short in every
thing. He who behaves shabbily to
those whom he ought to treat well, will
behave shabbily to all.
EXISTENCE was given US for action,
rather than indolent and aimless contem-
platiOn; our worth is determined by the
good deeds we do, rather than by the
fine emotions we feel.
THOUGHTS are the first born, the bios
SONS of the soul, the beginning of our
strength, whether for good or evil, and
they are the greatest evidence for or
against person that can be.
THE responsibilities of life are gauged
not by what we are, but what we may
become. The man who has ventured
only to the limits of his conscious force
has only reached the threshold of his pos
sible attainments.
SUCH is our impatience, such our ha-
tired of procrastination, in everything
but the amendment of our practices and
the adOrnment of our nature, one would
imagine we were dragging Time along
by force, and not he us.
IT appeareth in nothing more that
atheism is rather on the lip than in the
heart of man than by this, that atheists
will ever be talking of their opinions, as
if they tainted in themselves, and would
be glad to be strengthened by consent
of others.
How EASILY a man who has never
been in any great distress may pass
through life without knowing in his
own person at least, anything of the
possible goodness of the human heart
or, as must add with sigh, of its pos
sible vileness.
THE polite of every country seem to
have but one character. A gentleman
of Sweden differs but little, except in
trif1es, from one of every other country.
1t is among the vulgar we are to find
those distinctions which characterize
people.
ONE thing, and only one, in this world
has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings
pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opin-
ions change. What you have done lasts
lasts in you. Through ages, through
eternity, what you have done for good,
that, and only that lasts.
WE are born for higher destiny than
that of earth; there is realm where the
rainbow never fades, where the stars
will be spread before us like islands that
slumber on the ocean, and where the
beings that pass before us like shadows
will stay in our presence forever.
NEVER repent, unless by repentance
you mean drawing lessons from past ex-
Derience. Beating against the bars of
'ate you will only wound yourself, and
mar what yet remains in you. Grief for
he past is useful so far as it can be
into renewed force for the
'uture.
IF, in the pursuit of that on which we
lave set our hearts, we take steps which |
violate our sense of right and lower our
moral tone, to just that extent do we less
N the success of our lives. Tempora-
y gain which may seem to ensue is in
eality our worst failure, and will sooner |
IT later manifest itself as such.
$50 YOU enjoyed your visit to the me-
lagerie, did your" inquired a young
nan of his adored ones little sister.
Oh, yes! And, do you know, we saw
amel there that screwed its mouth and
yes around awfully; and sister said it
Ooked exactly as you do when you are
Getting poetry at evening parties!
SILENCE is worth its weight in gold
n many crises of human experience
When trouble comes, when passions are
when excitement unneryes, ST.
'nce, until the feelings and the reason
re restored to normal conditions, will
revent many hasty, ill-timed word or
ct which would be followed by days of
'gret and sorrow. Calmness in critical
tuations and experiences should be
lltivated, for it will prove a weapon
"a a shield which are not to be de-