Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-17

guised in garments of light.
Remembrance is the only paradise out
of which we cannot be driven.
1t is no sin to be tempted; the wick
edness lies in being overcome.
The weakest spot in every man is
where he thinks himself the wisest.
There will always be romance in the
world as long as there are young hearts
in it.
Hear both sides, and all will be clear;
hear but one and you will still be in the
dark.
If you pass for more than your value,
say little. 1t is much easier to look wise
than to talk wise.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
KEEP clear of a man who does not val
ue his own character.
PREFER sense to wit; never seek to be
diverting without being useful; let no
jest intrude upon manners.
If all those who obtain not their de-
sires should die of disappointment, who
would be living on the earth?
WE pass our lives in regretting the
past, complaining of the present, and in
dulging false hopes of the future.
NOTHING makes one SO Indifferent to
the pin and mosquito thrusts of life as
the consciousness of growing better.
EXCESS of ceremony was always the
companion of weak minds; it is plant
that will never grow in strong soil.
To work out our own contentment,
we should labor not so much to increase
our substance, as to moderate our de-
sires.
EVERY man thinks that Caesars wife
ought to be above suspicion, but he is
far less particular as to what Caesar him.
self ought to be.
MEN are apt to think unduly well of
their capabilities, and it is not unnatur-
al in such cases that they should think
Undnly i'll, or not at all of others.
If man be accomplished in the
sense of poetry, whether expressed in
music, art or literature, he will be better
able to distinguish between apparent
realities and real ones.
IT is on all hands very evident to us,
from the low standard of mental pleas
ure with which men are satisfied, that
they form very erroneous estimate of
their capacity for higher enjoyments.
THE tenderness of conscience is too
often overmatched by the sharpness of
want; and principle, like charity, yields
with just reluctance enough to excuse
itself. There is powerful rhetoric in
necessity.
1t behooves a man who wishes to get
the most happiness out of life, to appre-
ciate himself, both with regard to his
faculty for the higher pleasures, and for
his actual and potential significance in
the world.
THE hope of the hypocrite is like a
spiders web. Like the spider, the hyp-
ocrite weaves his web, his hope, out of
his own bowels. 1t is the creature of
his fancy, spun from the materials of
self-righteousneSs.
NOBODY likes to be nobody; but ev-
erybody is pleased to think himself
somebody. And everybody is somebody;
but when anybody thinks himself to be
somebody, he generally thinks every
body else to be nobody.
THE great difficulty in employing the
present well is that the use of it must
form part of some consistent scheme
or well devised arrangement of life
There is no satisfactory present that is
not firmly rooted in the past.
Vicious habits are so great stain to
human nature, and so odious to them
selves, that every person actuaEed by
right reason would avoid them, though
he were sure they would be always con-
cealed both from God and, and had no
future punishment upon them.
ready made generalizations may give
conceit of knowledge and make first
class sciolist, but it can never give the
"power' promised in the aphorism, as
the equivalent of knowledge" When |
Montaigne said he would rather forego |
his mind than furnish it, he suggested |
the two principles of education. The
problem is not to fill the mind from |
without, but to give the most efficient |
aid to its efforts from within.
A MANS liability to disappointment |
will be diminished by the concentration
of his desires upon that which is in |
in his own power, and his independence |
of soul be increased, for he will feel that |
none of "the whips and scorns of time, |
the oppresssor's wrong, the prouds mans
contumely," can interfere with the en-
joyments which the excursions of his
mind through the fields of literature and |
art can afford him.
THOUGH the cultivation of our facul- |
ties for delight in poetry and beauty ev-
erywhere-in pleasant green fields and
shining rivers; in happy faces; in the
mighty harmonies and tender strains of
music; in the loveliness and grandeur,
varied as human nature, of literature,
with all its accompaniment of laughter
and tears-though this culture cannot
divest us of our human liability to the
burden and heat of these feverish days,
it can, at any rate, for every evening
time, provide ga bower quiet for us, and
a sleep full of sweet dreams and health
and quiet breathing"
EX-SENATOR BRUCE, of Mississippi, is
greatly discouraged over the condition of
bis race in the Southern States.