Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-11

fortune is lldI We i've dCColuAllS " 1hS
examples of others.
Advice is like snow; the softer it fall:
the longer it dwells and the deeper il
sinks into the mind.
More is accomplished by doing eacf
days work faithfully, than by crowding
two days work into one.
We can offer much in the large, but
to make small sacrifices in little things
is what we are seldom equal to.
There is no surer mark of the absence
of the highest moral and intellectual
qualities than cold reception of excel
lence.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
NEVER walt for thing to turn up
GO and turn it up yourself. 1t take less
time, and is surer to be done.
Busy people are generally long-lived.
Active exercise of brain and muscle
provided it be not excessive, is the life
of life.
NOTHING sharpens the arrow of sar-
casm so keenly as the courtesy that pol
ishes it. No reproach is like that we
clothe with smile and present with a
bow
IT is certainly much easier wholly to
decline passion than to keep it within
Just bounds and measures ;and that which
few can moderate almost anybody may
prevent.
No battle is lost till it is won; and
self -control-the victory of reason over
impulses battle that is never lost,
but is always being won by those who
wish to try.
So completely does the success of a
mans work depend upon the success of
his life that it is worse than, useless for
him to attempt to secure the former at
the expense of the latter.
He only is great who has the habits
of greatness, who, after performing
what none in ten thousand could accom-
plish, passes on like Samson and tells
neither father or mother of it.
No one can lay himself under obliga-
tions to do wrong thing. Pericles,
when one of his friends asked his serv-
ices in an unjust cause, excused himself,
saying. 81 am friend only as far as the
altar
WE smile at the ignorance of the saw
age who cuts down the tree in order to
reach the fruits; but the fact is blum
der of this description is made by every
person who is ever eager and impatient
in the pursuit of pleasure.
VIRTUE is brave and frank; vice only
is sinuous and sneaking. Young persons
who carry prescribed books in ther rock-
cts, and read them by stealth, are be-
ginning an evil course which may lead
to degradation and ruin.
Do not be disheartened because you
have failed once, twice, or three times,
but press onward; make up your mind
to gain a certain point and gain it. Do
not stop till you see failure disappear
ing, and success fairly in your hands.
THE world is sad one for him who
shrinks from its sober duties. Expert
ence should warn him to adopt some
great and serious aim, such as manhood
will cling to, that he may not feel him.
self, too late, a eumberer of this over
laden earth, but man among men.
THE purest and holiest relation in life
is that of marriage, which ought never
to be regarded as mere civil contract,
entered into from mere worldly ends, but
as an essential union of two minds, by
which each gains new power, and ac
quires new capacities for usefulness.
A MAN who dwells on failure with dis
content condemns himself of littleness.
We cannot be master of ourselves till
our sovereignty has been challenged and
proved. The salutary shock comes on
this side and that, and the courageous
sufferer is taught the wealth of his re-
sources.
THERE is point in generosity beyond
which mans duty to himself, to his
family, and to society at large forbid
him to go. There stop. Let no fiattery,
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.
IT is well to remember: That happi-
ness is not perfection unless it is shared
that great possessions may bring great
misfortunes es-that foolish friend does
more harm than wise enemy-that the
hardest thing to empty out of the heart
is eonceit-that good temper, like sun
ny day, sheds brightness over every
thing.
IT is the close observation of little
things which is the secret of success in
business, in art, in science, and in every
pursuit of life. Human knowledge is
but an accumulation of small facts,
made by successive generations of men;
the little bit of knowledge and expert
ence carefully treasured up by them
into a mighty pyramid.
MANY young men, and women, too,
are utterly without purpose in life. A
woman without purpose is as weak as
man without purpose, and as useless
There is in the nature of things no
more reason why women should not be
self If-snnnortinp than why men should not