Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

sun.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
1T many times turns out that we be-
lieve ourselves much deceived by others
because we first deceive ourselves.
APPLY your strength and your intel
lect on matters which lie at hand and on
problems which admit of solution.
LIVE in the truth, be the house great
or small. Walk in the truth, be the path
broad or narrow. He who hides the
truth sins.
SEEK not to have things happen as
you choose them, but rather choose them
to happen as they do, and so may you
live prOsperously.
FRIENDSHIP is a thing that needs to be
cultivated, if we would make it come to
anything; but enemies, like ill weeds,
will spring up of themselves without our
care or toll.
EVERY limit is beginning as well as
an ending. Who can quit young lives
after being in company with them, and
not desire to know what befell them in
their after years?
THERE is no knowledge for which so
high price is paid as a knowledge of
the world; and no one ever became an
adept in it except at the expense of a
hardened or wounded heart.
IT often happens that those are the
best people whose characters have been
the most injured by slanderers, as we
usually find that to be the sweetest fruit
which the birds have been pecking at.
BEWARE of lightly condemning the
actions of others; the intention of our
must be considered, and this is
often right and pure, even though the
action may outwardly appear reprehensi-
BILE.
AM what a multitude of tears, what
myriads of bloody drops have been shed
in secrecy about the three corner trees
of life-the tree of life, the tree of
knowledge, the tree of freedom; shed,
but never reckoned.
ANY one anywhere who cultivates
hobby at the expense of other peoples
comfort is making failure of life; but
true politeness of the heart between
friend and friend, or man and wife, will
obviate the danger of overdone amuse-
ments.
HOME is no unmixed paradise of
sweets. The elements of peace and true
happiness are there, and so too are the
elements of discord and misery; and it
needs only the bitter spirit of the world
without to make it pandemonium, or
the loving genius of harmony to make
it the prompter of every affectionate i'm
pulse.
LIKE most garments and most carpets.
everything in life has right side and
wrong side. You can take any Joy, and
by turning it around find troubles on the
other side; or you may take the greatest
and by turning it around find
Joy on the other side. The gloomiest
mountain never casts shadow on both
sides at once, nor does the greatest of
life's calamities.
In any great calamity, whether i'm
pending or already come, nothing is so
helpful as engrossing employment. Men
working at the pumps to save, if posi-
BILE, the sinking ship, do not suffer
tenth part as much as those who stand
gazing in the face of death. No bloody
encounter on the battlefield equals in
horrible experience the position of the
line which must simply hold its ground
without returning the fire of the enemy
THE power of the will might and ought
to be cultivated from childhood. We
are too apt to allow physical ailments to
deprive us of our will Girls and women
get into a chronic state of feebleness be-
cause they have not the will to engage
in necessary physical exercise and men
tai occupation. Our thoughts are rebel
liouS because we have never learned to
them and keep them fixed
on subject by an effort of the will.
COULD we know that we were certain
ly making the entire character of sin
gle individual, and that we alone must
bear the spOnsibility, how great trust
we should deem it, and how careful
should we be! Yet, in truth, we are do
ing far more than that. Every one who
owes something of his char
acter to our influence; and the effect
does not stop there. Like a magnetic
current, it passes on from one person to
another, and no human power of compu-
tation can ever measure its strength or
its extent.
IT is astonishing how many people
there are who neglect punctuality.
Thousands have failed in life from this
cause alone. 1t is not only serious
vice in itself, but it is the fruitful pa
'ent of numerous other vices, so that he |
who becomes the victim of it gets in |
7olved in tolls from which it is almost |
to escape. 1t makes the
merchant wasteful of time, it saps the |
business reputation of the lawyer, and
t Injuries the prospects of the mechanic,
Who might otherwise rise to fortune
n word, there is not profession or a
tation in life which is not liable to the |
,anker of this destructive habit.