Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-03-21
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


SEEK out mans good traits of char
acter before you search for his bad ones.
YOU need not tell all the truth. unless
to those who have a right to know it all.
But let all you tell be truth.
CHOOSE the course which YOU adopt
with deliberation; but when You have
adopted it, then perSevere in it with
tirmneSS.
TRUE religion and virtue give a cheer
full and happy turn to the mind, admit
of all true pleasures, and even procure
for us the highest.
GOOD NATURE. or what is often con-
sidered such, is the most selfish of all
virtues; it is nine times out of ten mere
Incidence of disposition.
VIRTUE seems to be nothing more
than motion cOnsOnant TO the system
of things. Were planet to fly from its
orbit, it would represent a vicious man.
PIETY is kind of modesty. 1t makes
US cast down our thoughts, Just as mod
esty makes us cast down our eyes in
presence of whatever is forbidden.
WONDERFUL that the Christian re-
ligion, which seems to have no other OBJ
ject than the felicity of another life,
should also constitute the happiness of
this.
THE path of the just, as a shining
light, goeth forward, and increaseth even
to perfect day. The way of the wicked
is darkSome; they know not where they
fall.
No ONE can ask honestly or hopefully
to be delivered, from temptation unless he
has himself honestly and firmly deter
mined to do the best he can to keep out
of it.
THE things which thy eyes have seen
utter not hastily in quarrel, lest after
ward thou mayst not be able to make
amends, when thou hast dishonOred thy
friend.
WE are firm believers in the maxim
that for all right judgment of any man
or thing it is useful. nay, essential, to
see his good qualities before pronOuncing
on his bad.
LIVES are enlarged in different ways.
l dare say some would never get their
eyes opened if it were not for violent
shock from the consequences of their
own actions.
IT is not enough that we swallow
truth; we must feed upon it, as insects
do on the leaf, till the whole heart be
colored by its qualities, and show its
food in every fiber.
VANITY is so constantly solicitOuS of
self that, even where its own claims are
not interested, it indirectly seeks the ali
ment which it loves, by showing how
little is deserved by others.
THE object of preaching is constantly
to remind mankind of what mankind
are constantly forgetting; not to supply
the defects of human intelligence, but
to fortify the feebleness of human resO-
lutions.
THE doubts of love are never to be
wholly overcome; they grow with its va
rious anxieties, timidities and tender
nesses; and are the very fruits of the
reverence in which the admired object
is beheld.
HUMANITY is the peculiar character
istic of great minds; little vicious minds
abound with anger and revenge, and are
incapable of feeling the exact pleasure
of forgiying their enemes.
YOUR manners are always under eX-
and by committees little sus-
pected,- police in citizens clOthes,-
but who are awarding or denying you
very high prizes when you least think
of it.
IT is only an error of judgment to
make mistake, but it argues an intirm-
ity of character to adhere to it when dis
covered Or, as the Chinese better say,
''The glory is not in never falling, but in
rising every time you fall"
IN the morning of our days, when the
senses are unwOrn and tender, when the
whole man is awake in every part, and
the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the
objects that surround us, how lively at
that time are our sensations, but how
false and inaccurate the judgments we
form of thingsI
In the voyage of life many profess to
be in search of Heaven, but take care |
not to venture so far in their approx
nations to it as entirely to lose sight Of |
he earth; and should their frail vessel |
De in danger of shipwreck, they will |
gladly throw their darling vices over
BOARD, as other mariners their treasures,
,nly to fish them up again when the
storm is over.
ANS OF COIN