Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-09-12

you may find heart wherein no errors
grow.
OUR interests are grains of opium to
consciences, but they only put it to sleep
for terrible awakening.
EVERY man has three characters
that which he exhibits, that which he
has, and that which he thinks he has.
NECESSITY is cruel, but it is the only
test of inward strength. Every fool
may live according to his own liking.
If the wicked flourish and thou suffer,
be not discouraged. They are fatted for
destruction; thou art dieted for health.
WE should wish for few things with
eagerness, if we perfectly knew the ma
ture of that which was the object of our
desire.
AS to the pure all things are pure, so
the common mind sees far more vulgar
ity in others than the mind developed
in genuine refinement.
IT is fact that before we begin to
think we seem to know everything,
while we set about thinking in earnest
we seem to know nothing.
WE know not what particular tempt
alton may assail us in the future, but we
can so order our present life as to weak
en- wrong desires and withdraw the force
of evil influences.
THE only way in which capital can in
crease is by saving. If you spend as
much as you get, you will never be
richer than you are. 1t is not what a
man gets, but what he saves, that con-
stitutes his wealth.
THERE are two things which will
make us happy in this world, if we at
| tend to them. The first is, never to veX
ourselves about what we cannot help,
and the second never to veX ourselves
about what we can help.
THERE is no better preventive of ner-
vous exhaustion than regular unhurried
muscular exercise. If we moderate our
hurry, lessen our worry, and increase our
outdoor exercise, large proportion of
nervous disease would be abolished.
GRIEF and pain come alike to all, and
cannot be escaped by any; broken hearts
are to be found in palaces as well as in
cottages, and the bond of brotherhood
seems strongest when love and pity
unite all hearts, and reverence for what
is good lifts up up our souls.
LOVE, sympathy, help, knowledge, in
telligence- best part of our inner
! lives-what an infinite harvest might
be reaped out of them were they given
and taken, combined and recombined,
with all freedom and harmony! Yet
how continually is this work hindered
by our own unreceptiveness!
THE ruin of most men dates from
some vacant hour. Occupation is the
ardor of the soul. There is Satirical
poem in which the devil is represented
as fishing for men and fitting his bait to
the taste and business of his prey; but
the idler, he said, gave him no trouble,
etS lo DlU DIT uOOh
TALENTS are usually shown in prefer
ences more or less strong, and upon their
wise and patient cultivation depends
the realization of our ideal. "TO him
that hath shall be given" is an inexora-
BILE law. The individual end to be ac-
complished will always vary; but the
common end of success is fixed and uni
verSal.
THE desire of advising has very ex-
tensive prevalence; and, since advice
cannot be given but to those who will
hear it, a patient listener is necessary to
the accommodation of all those who
desire to indulge in the Odious habit. A
patient listener however is not always
to be had-and good counsel is thrown
away upon those who are absorbed in
their own reflections.
WE should never be content. There
is always something to alter, to aban-
don, or to pursue; and in that honest
earnest work which our conSciences ap-
prove, we shall find neither room, time
nor inclination for the idle and selfish
spirit of dissatisfaction which paralyzes
our powers, destroys our happiness, and
render us unable to bless or help our
fellow men.
EACH of us is bound TO make the lit
tie circle in which he lives better and
happier. Each of us is bound to see that
out of that small circle the wisest good
may flow. Each of us may have fixed in
his mind the thought that out of sin
gle house may flow influences that shall
stimulate the whole commonwealth and
the whole civilized world
ADVICE is offensive, not because it
lays us open to unexpected regret or
cOnvicts us of any fault which had es-
capped our notice, but because it shows
us that we are known to others as well
as to ourselves; and the of1icious moni- |
tor is prosecuted with hatred, not be- |
cause his accusation is false, but be- !
cause he assumes that superiority which |
we are not willing to grant him, and has |
dared to detect what we desire to con-
ceal !