Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-03
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

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get it out of the world.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
SOME write, talk and think so much
about vice and virtue that they have nc
time to practice either.
WE should round every day of stirring
action with an evening of thought. We
are taught nothing by experience unless
we muse upon it.
SINCERITY is speaking as we think,
believing as we pretend, acting as we
profess, performing as we promise, and
being as we appear to be.
NONE are too wise to be mistaken, but
few are so wisely just as to acknowl-
edge and correct their mistakes-esp
cially mistakes of prejudice.
THAT which is good to be done, can
not be done too soon; and if it is neglect
ed to be done early, it will frequently
happen that it will not be done at all.
AN individual cannot change the con-
ditions of society in which he is obliged
to live, and must either conform to them
or be excluded from intercourse with
his fellows.
MANY who would not for the world
utter a falsehood are yet eternally schem-
ing to produce false impressions on the
minds of others respecting facts, char
acters and opinions.
THE great secret of avoiding disap
pointment is not to expect too much
Despair follows immoderate hope, as
things fall hardest to the ground that
have been nearest the sky.
THE common practice of cunning is the
sign of small genius; it almost always
happens that those who use it to cover
themselves in one place lay themselves
open in another.
THE hard strata of circumstances
through which ones life rill must filter
and force its way, may make it purer
and clearer, Just as all hard strata are
the filtering stones of water.
As benevolence is the most sociable of
all virtues, so it is of the largest extent;
for there is not any man either so great
or so little but he is yet capable of Civ
ing and of receiving benefits.
PEEvIsHNEsS may be considered the
canker of life that destroys its vigor and
checks its improvement, that creeps
in with hourly depredations, and taints
and Vitiates what it cannot consume.
SPARE moments are the gold dust of
time. OF all the portions of our life,
spare moments are the most fruitful in
good or evil. They are the gaps through
which temptations find the easiest ac-
cess to the soul.
THE wise man makes equity and just
ice the basis of all his conduct. The
right forms the rule of his behavior,
Difference and modesty mark his exteri-
or, sincerity and fidelity serve him for
accomplishments.
EACH human life is a crystal, rather
than a surface; it has many faces, and
each face seems to him who sees it a
complete life; and yet all the faces form
but part of the one life whose depths
are concealed from sight
THERE is, of course, much rough
work to be done in the world for which
grace and courtesy might be deemed su-
perf1uOuS; but wherever they can be ap-
piled, there is no doubt that they great
ly sweeten and beautify life.
WORDS are little things, but they strike
hard. We WELD them so easily that we
are apt to forget their hidden power.
When fifty spoken, they fall like the sun
shine, the dew and drilling rain; but
when unfitly, like the frost, the hail and
the tempest.
WE do not please Heaven more by
eating bitter aloes than by eating honey.
A cloudy, foggy, rainy day is not more
heavenly than day of sunshine A
funeral march is not so much like the
music of the angels as the song of birds
on May morning.
THERE is seldom a line of glory writ
ten upon the earthS surface but line
of suffering runs parallel with it; and
they that read the lustrious syllables of
the one, and stop not to decipher the
spotted and worn inscription of the 9TH
er, get the lesser half of the lesson earth
has to give.
IT is not sufficient to constitute our
selves just men and women that we
strictly pay our debts, keep our promis-
es and fulfill our contracts, if at the same
time we are stern where we should be
kind, hard where we should be tender,
cold where we should be sympathetic,
for then we pay only half our debts and
repudiate the other half.
TAKING up ones cross means simply
that you are to go the road which you
see to be the straight one, carrying what
ever you find is given you to carry as
well and stoutly as you can, without
making faces or calling people to come
and look at you. Above all, you are
neither to load nor unload yourself, nor