Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-05-30
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

| OhO1CE EACEhI1 1S.
POPULAR opinion is the old fable o
the lions great supper. The delicacie
of the forest were spread before tn
| guests, but the swine asked, "Have yol
no grains?"
| GIVE it as my deliberate and solemn
conviction that the individual who il
habitually tardy in meeting an appoint
ment will never be respected or success
full in life.
In misfortune we often mistake de
lection for cOnstancy; we bear it without
daring to look on it; like towards, who
suffer themselves to be murdered with
out resistance.
\ GOOD man and wise man may al
| times be angry with the world, at times
grieved for it; but be sure no man was
ever discontented with the world if he
did his duty in it.
A THOUSAND wheels of labor are turn.
ed by dear affections, and kept in mo
tion by selfsacrificing endurance; and
return at night are daily professions OF
love and duty.
WHEN man conveys to you in loud
tone of voice, and the language of slang
profanity, and bad grammar the inform
alton that he is gentleman, it is waste
of time to doubt him.
IN most quarrels there is fault on
both sides. A quarrel may be compared
to spark, which cannot be produced
without flint, as well as steel. Either
of them may hammer on wood forever;
no fire will follow.
LET the fear of a danger be a spur to
prevent it; he that fears otherwise gives
advantage to the danger; it is less folly
not to endeavOr the prevention of the
evil thou fearest than to fear the evil
which thy endeavor cannot prevent.
By a kind Of fashionable discipline,
the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to
smile, and the whole cOuntenance to en-
anate with the semblance of friendly
welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed
by spark of genuine kindness and
good will.
BOWING, ceremonious, formal compli-
mentS, stiff civilities, will never be po-
liteness; that must be easy, natural, un-
studied; and what will give this but a
mind benevolent and attentive to exert
that amiable disposition in trifes to all
you converse and live with?
WHEN misfertunes happen to such as
dissent from us in matters of religion,
we call them judgments; when to those
of our own sect, we call them trials;
when to persons neither way distin-
guished, we are content to attribute
them to the settled course of things.
Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are
a prOvOcation and displeasure to the en-
vious. All the perfections of their fel-
low creatures are odious. What
wretched and apostate state is thisl to
be offended with excellence, and to hate
a man because we approve him!
THE envious man is in pain upon all
occasions which ought to give him pleas
ure. The relish of his life is inverted,
and the objects which administer the
highest satisfaction to those who are ex-
empt from this passion, give the quick
est pangs to persons who are subject
to it.
LIVING is death; dying is life. We are
not what we appear to be. On this side
5he grave we are exiles, on that, citizens;
Dn this side orphans, on that children;
IN this side captiyes, on that freemen;
IN this side disguised, unknown, on that
and proclaimed as the sons of
Sod.
WE hold death, poverty and grief for
)ur principal enemies; but this death.
which some repute the most dreadful of |
Ill dreadful things, who does not know
hat others call it the only secure har-
)Or from the storms and tempests of
ife, the sovereign good of nature, the
ole support of liberty, and the common
md sudden remedy of all evils?
TIE cynic is one who never sees a
rood quality in a man, and never fails
o see bad one. He holds that no
nan does good thing except for profit.
The effect of his conversation upon your
ceilings is to chill and scar them; to
end you away sour and morose His
criticisms and hints fall indiscriminately
LpOn every lovely thing.
THE senses determine nothing. Some
eCple love music, others detest it, Some
eople delight in fragrance that is re-
ulSive to others. Some people are de
lighted with natural objects that have
20 charm in the eyes of others. What
pleasant to the feeling of some is dis
greeable to that of others. Say that
hing is beautiful or admirable, and YOU
yill have as many different opinions as if
on were to proclaim any particular man
be clever, or any particular woman to
e fair
WHEN you 60 to stand before God, it
ill not be your dress, or your house, or
our titles, or your wealth, no, nor even !
our virtues, however much commended d
ere, that will give you title of entrance
mong the gloriied. Respectable sin
i'll not pass then and there as here
he honor, the nobility of it is now gone Y
Y. The degrees, indeed, of sin are many,
ut the kind is one; and poor, defect
|, emptied form Of shame and sorrow.