Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-05-09

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is pretty sure to tell it the first chance
| he gets.
| never knew any man in my life
who could bear another's misfortunes
perfectly like Christian
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
EVEN when we fancy We have gown
wiser, it is only, it may be, that new
prejudices have displaced old ones.
IF you have committed iniquity, YOU
must expect to suffer; for vengeance with
its sacred light shines upon you.
HEALTH is the only riches that man
ought to set value on, for without it all
men are poor, let their estates be what
they will
LIARS act like the salt miners; they
undermine the truth, but leave just so
much standing as is necessary to sup
port the edifice,
A FOOL can ask more questions than
a wise man can answer; but wise man
cannot ask more questions than he will
find fool ready to answer
| TRIBULATION will not hurt you unless
it dOes-what, alas! it too often does
unless it hardens you, and makes you
sour and narrow and skeptical.
THE man who is jealous and envious
! of iTb ho, IN 70
heart who can bring more bitterness in
to his life than can any outside enemy.
Do NOT believe that book is good if
in reading it you do not become more
contented with your existence, if it does
not rouse up in you more generous feel
ings.
THE confusion and undersigned mae
| curacy so often observed in conversation
proves that truth needs to be cultivated
as talent, as well as recommended as
virtue.
THERE is nothing which we more alb
hor than that kind of wit which betrays
a hardness of heart. Inhumanity is nev-
er so odiOus as when it is practiced with
mirth and wantonneSS.
THERE is this difference between hap
piness and wisdom, that he who thinks
himself the happiest man really is so;
but he who thinks himself the wisest is
generally the greatest fool.
FALSE happiness is like false money
it passes for time as well as the true,
and serves some ordinary occasions; but
when it is brought to the touch we find
the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss
ANGER is the most impotent passion
that influences the mind of man; it eff
fects nothing it undertakes, and hurts
the man who is possessed by it more
than the object against which it is di-
rected.
REASONING against prejudice is like |
fighting against a shadow; it exhausts |
the reasoner without visibly affecting the
prejudice. Argument cannot do the
work of instruction any more than blows |
can take the place of sunlight.
HOWEVER good you may be, you have
faults; however dull you may be, you
can find out what some of them are; and |
however slight they may be, you had
better make-not too painful but pa
tient-efforts to get quit of them.
MANNERS are the shadows of virtues,
the momentary display of those quail
ties which our fellow creatures love and
respect. If we strive to become, then,
what we strive to appear, manners may
often be rendered useful guides to the
performance of our duties.
NOTHING is more silly than the pleas
ure some people take in speaking their
mind. A man of this make will say a
rude thing for the mere pleasure of say
ing it; when an opposite behavior, full
as innocent, might have preserved his
friend, or made his fortune,
"HA - is the interjection of laughter
p' is an interiection of sorrow
The difference between them is very
small, consisting only in the transpOsi-
ton of what is no substantial letter, but
a bare aspiration. How quickly, in the /
age of minute, in the change of
breath, is our mirth changed into mourn !
ing! I
IT is an old saying that charity be-
gins at home; but this is no reason it {
should not go abroad A man should I
live with the world as a citizen of the
world; he may have preference for the
particular quarter, or square, or even al
ley, in which he lives, but he should ..
have generous feeling for the welfare
Of the whole.
IT was one of Sydney's Smiths pleas
ATTEST sayings, and quite as sagacious, t
100, as it is pleasant, that mankind are
always happy for having been happy;
so that if you make them happy now,
you make them happy twenty years f
lence by the memory of it." Such a }
sentiment needs no Endorsement to pass +
with the world. There is truth Z
n every syllable. !,
BE ever gentle with the children God q
las given; watch over them constantly: Il
eprove them earnestly, but not in an d
5er In the forcible language of Scrip h
ureS, "Be not bitter against them."- o.
Yes, they are good boys" once heard
kind father say. 81 talk to them very -,
much, but do not like to beat my chill Fl Fl
ren world will beat them" 1t Ia
vas a beautiful thought, though not ell ca
gantly expressed. W