Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-12


freshness, beauty and significance.
Sin is to be overcome not so much by
maintaining direct opposition to it as
by cultivating the opposite principle.
There is no policy like politeness; and
a good manner is the best thing in the
world, either to get good name or sup
ply the want of it.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
IT is more manly to fail in hundred
enterprises than to sit down and grum-
BILE at those who are trying.
THERE is no man so friendlesS but
that he can find friend sincere enough
to tell him disagreeable truths.
IT is the blackest ingratitude to accept
the best of any ones endeavors to please
you and repay it with indifference.
HALF the misery in the world comes
of want of courage to speak and to hear
the truth plainly and in spirit of love.
WHEN we fancy we have grown wiser,
it is only, in many instances, that new
prejudices have taken the place of old
ones.
NOTHING is more pitiful than life
spent in thinking of nothing but self
yes, even in thinking of nothing but
ones own soul.
NEXT to moral weakness, a fear of
difficulties to be met is undoubtedly the
most unfortunate mental trait of any
young person.
WHEN person becomes too good to
overlook the faults of the unfortunate,
he makes the error which loses to him
the glory of his goodness.
THE prizes of life that are really worth
having are seldom obtained by a mere
stroke of luck. Usually they have to be
toiled for strenuously and waited for
patiently.
FRIENDSHIP should be surrounded
with ceremonies and respect, and not
crushed into corner. Friendship re-
quires more time than poor busy men
can usually command.
THE nobler a man truly is, the strong
er is his desire TO live a yet richer and
worthier life; the more valuable his
work, the more earnestly does he long
to improve upon it.
For the earnest man or woman there
is no end to effort. One aim reached and
its difficulties surmounted, another will
quickly present itself to the aspiring
spirit; and before that is reached other
difficulties must again be met.
HABITS are less easily acquired in ma
ture life than in youth; but even then
their formation is not impossible if we
can only find the right motive. 1t may
not always be the best in itself, but the
best that has power at the time and for
that Individual.
RICHES, public favor, leisure, comfort,
ease, and luxury, all good in themselves,
are not good for life-purposes. They
may afford opportunities for higher
things; but, in the efforts to attain them,
the true ends are often lost sight of,
and they become the only aims of life.
HE who does the best he can is always
improving. His best of yesterday is out
done to-day, and his best of to-day will
be outdone tomorrow. 1t is this steady
progress, no matter from which point it
starts, that forms the chief element of
all greatness and goodness.
WHEN one looks on the thousand and
one poor, foolish, ignoble faces of this
world, and listens to the chatter as poor
and foolish as the faces, one, in order to
have any proper respect for them, is
forced to remember that solemnity OF
death, which is silently waiting.
WE need to cultivate our Judgment to
gain an insight into the root of things,
comparing the present standard with
universal laws, treating with respectful
consideration that which has been
honored by time, and giving heart and
hand to the new forces at work in our
civilization.
THERE is point in generosity be-
yond which mans duty to himself, to
his family, and society at large forbids
him to go. There stop. Let no f1attery,
no representations, however plausible,
induce you to take one step beyond it.
Lay down common sense rules for your
guidance, and let them be absolute laws
HOUSEWORK is healthy, and many
physicians recommend it to women who
need exercise. Walking is not enough;
it exercises only the legs, while dusting
and sweeping bring an entirely different
set of muscles into play. 1t will be found
too that many girls will take more inter-
est in their homes if encouraged to as
sist in the care of them.
EVERY useful invention has been car
ried out and perfected by the co-opera-
tion of many minds, OF by the successive
applications of varied genius to the
same object age after age. The mechan-
ic must aid the philosopher, or he must
stand still in his demonstrations; and
the philosopher must aid the mechanic,
or he will work and work without wis
dom.
THE exercise of every faculty is neces-
sary to its development, and therefore
to its life. Inaction, fully carried out,
means stagnation and death. On the
other hand, over exercise of any part |
tends to exhaustion, and if the period of
rest nncnccaru To rastnra ifc uinnr ha do |