Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-20

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Hence an cid proverb, that the stain ap-
pears greater according TO the brilliancy
of what it touches.
WHEN a man dies they who survive
him ask what property he has left be
hind. The angel who bends over the
dying man asks what good deeds he has
sent before him.
HABIT and imitation there is moth
ing more perennial than these two
They are the source of all working and
apprenticeship, of all practice, and all
learning in this world.
TIE conservative may clamor against
reform, but he might as well clamor
against centrifugal force. He Sighs for
the good old times, he might as well
wish the oak back into the acorn.
MEN and statues that are admired in
an elevated situation have very differ
ent effect upon us when we approach
them; the first appear less than we i'm
agined them, the last bigger.
WHATEVER you do, do it well. The
sighting of task because it is appa-
rently unimpOrtant leads to habitual ne
gIect, so that men and women degener-
ate insensibly into bad workers.
IT is easier to meet with error than to
find truth; error is on the surface and
can be more easily met with; truth is
hid in the great depth; the way to seek
does not appear to all the world.
TIE history of any private family,
however humble, could it be fully rela-
ted for five or six generations, would il
lustrate the state and progress of socie-
ty better than the most elaborate disser-
tatiOn.
1t is when the heart is warm with af-
fectiOn that the tokens of love are most
precious when enthusiasm burns that
the deeds it inspires are most servicea-
BILE. a good done quickly is twice done;
a seasOnable service is doubled in value
As TIE rose bush is composed of the
sweetest flowers and the sharpest thornS
as the heavens are sometimes over
cast, alternately tempestuouS and serene;
so is the life of man intermingled with
Joy and sorrows, with pleasure and with
pains.
ALL which happens in the whole
world happens through hope. No huS-
bandman would SOW a grain of corn if
he did not hope it would spring up and
bring forth the ear. How much more
are we helped on by hope in the way to
eternal life!
ALL the world, all that we are, and all
that we have, our bodies and our souls,
our actions and our sufferings, our con-
ditions at home, our accidents abroad,
our many sins, and our seldom virtues,
are as so many arguments to make our
souls dwell low in the deep valley of hu-
mility.
IN solitude the mind gains strength,
and learns to lean upon itself; in the
world it seeks or accepts of few treach-
erOuS supports the feigned compassion
of one, the flattery of a second, the civ
ilities of a third, the friendship of
fourth; they all deceive, and bring the
mind back to retirement, reflection and
books.
SOCIETY everywhere is in conspiracy
against the manhood of every one of its
members. Society is a Joint stock com
pany, in which the members agree, for
the better security of his bread to each
shareholder, to surrender the liberty and
culture of the eater. The virtue in most
request is conformity. Self-reliance is
its aversion.
WE hear and speak much ROW of the
evils of over pressure, the dangers of
undue excitement. We forget that men
tai stagnatiOn is also evil, that intellect
ual inanitiOn may carry in its train con
sequences even more prejudicial than
over stimulation, and that the due eX-
ercise of the faculties is as essential to
their strength and activity as rest.
As APPROACH the fog it seems at
some little distance to be almost solid
gloom, such as would shut out every
glimpse of light and totally imprison
me IN ObScurity. But when enter it |
find myself agreeably mistaken, and the |
mist much thinner that it appeared |
such is the case respecting the sulTerings
OF life; they are not, when experienced, !
so dreadful as a timorous imagination
surmised.