Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-01
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

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CHOICE EXCERPTS.
UNDUE praise is the poison of human
souls. He that would live healthily must
learn to push along entirely without
praise.
SILENCE is one of the hardest kinds
of arguments to route. There is no
good substitute for wisdom; but silence
is the best that has been discovered.
A WORD is a weapon so terrible in its
action, and SO deadlyin its effects, that
it will strike with the force of thun
derbolt, and slay its victim with the
flashing rapidity of lightning.
"THERE is time enough for everything
in the course of the year." says Lord
Chesterfield, "if you do but one thing at
once; but there is not time enough in
the year if you will do two things at
a time.
THE man who can command his ap
petite owes thereto length of days; and
not length of days merely, not cOntinui-
ty of existence, but that which alone
gives to continuity substantial value
namely, power to enjoy.
A BAD habit broken away from is a
good days work. The earlier habit
is formed the stronger the hold it has.
Private personal habits are more diff
cult to get rid of and have a more de-
moralizing effect than public ones.
WHATEVER your sex or position, life
is battle in which you are to show
your pluck; and woe be to the coward.
Whether passed on bed of sickness or
the tented field, it is ever the same fair
play, and admits of no foolish distinc-
tions.
| NOTHING sinks young man into low
company, both of men and women, so
surely as timidity and diffidence of him
self. If he thinks that he shall not, he
may depend upon it he will not please,
and with degree of persuasion that he
shall, it is almost certain that he will.
He that will not permit his wealth to
do any good to others while he is living
prevents it from doing any good to HIM
self when he is dead, and by an egotiSm
that is suicidal and has a double edge,
cuts himself off from the truest pleasure
here and the highest happiness hereafter.
HE that makes anything his chief
good, wherein justice or virtue does not
bear part, and sets up profit, not hon
esty, for the measure of his happiness,
as long as he acts in conformity with
his own principles and is not ruled by
the dictates of reason and humanity, can
never do the offices of friendship, just
ice or liberality.
| IRRESOLUTION is worse vice than
rashness. He that shoots best may
sometimes miss the mark; but he that
shoots not at all can never hit it. Irres-
olution loosens all the joints of state;
like an ague, it shakes not this or that
limb, but all the body is at once in a fit.
The irresolute man is lifted from one
place to another; so matches nothing, but
adde's all his actions.
WE talk of human life as journey,
but how variously is that journey per-
formed? There are those who come
forth girt and shod and mantled to walk
on velvet lawns, where every gale and
beam is tempered. There are others
who walk on the Alpine paths of life,
against driving misery, and through
stormy sorrows, over sharp affections;
walk with bare feet and naked breast,
jaded, mangled and chilled.
| THE business man, the mechanic, the
laborer, the teacher, the mother, the
housekeeper- must attend to the
practical realities Of their labor, and not
despise the smallest detail; while at the
same time they must ennoble and en-
rich it by putting themselves into it in
the best sense of the worldly embody-
ing their highest conceptions and real
izing their finest ideals. Thus it is that
true progress is made and civilization
advances.
THE man who considers that the home
duties of woman are inferior to the
political work of man must be either
bachelor or blind. The very qualities
of the heart and intellect may be exer-
cised by a mother, sister, or an elder
daughter, in watching over the physical,
mental, and moral growth of the children
in her care. Heroic patience and vigi
lance that never tires, an adaptation of
means to the end, careful study of in
dividual traits, a keen psychological in
sight, may find ample room for exercise
within the four walls of even an hum
BILE home.
PEOPLE appear to think that, while
good manners should be strenuously ex-
acted from children, precept in this con-
nection may stand instead of example,
and that orders may be given them and
remarks made upon them as if they
were devoid of natural feelings and per
ceptions. AS a matter of fact, if, when
people want children to do something
for them, they would ask it in the same
way in which' they would address an
equal, if they would thank them for lit
tie services rendered, speak to them
gently, answer their reasonable ques-
tions civilly, and avoid unnecessary
comments upon their appearance, they
would have far less trouble in teaching
them to behave with like consideration
! for Others.