Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-17
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

or call them good.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
HAPPINESS is to the heart what SUM-
light is to the body, and he who shuts
out either is an enemy to society.
THE chief ingredients in the compost
ton of those qualities that gain esteem
and praise are good nature, truth, good
sense and good breeding.
THOSE who endeavor to initiate us we
like much better than than those who
try to equal us. Imitation is a sign of
esteem, but competition of envy.
APPRECIATION in any part of our car
riage is lighting up candle to our de-
fects, and never fails to make us taken
notice of, either as wanting sense or
sincerity.
ONLY the few favored by fortune can
scale the rock of fame; but there is plen-
ty of work to be done by the multitude
as good and true in its own way, if not
so enduring.
No possessions are good, but by the
good use we make of them, without
which wealth, power, friends and ser
wants do but help to make our lives
more unhappy.
NATURE loves truth so well that it
hardly ever admits of 1ourishing. Con-
ceit is to nature what paint is to beauty;
is not only needless, but impairs
what it would improve.
TIE best recipe for going through life
in commendable way is to feel that ev-
erybody, no matter how rich or how
poor, needs all the kindness they can
get from others in the world.
EVERY man who succeeds inclines to
ascribe all the credit to his own ability,
shrewdness, industry; but when he fails
he lays the blame wholly upon others,
upon circumstance, upon fate.
ANGER is the most impotent passion
that accompanies the mind of man; il
affects nothing it goes about; and hurts
the man who is possessed by it more
than any others against whom it is di-
rected.
THE family is the very core of all So
ciety, and those who do not learn its
lessons and taste its joys are but very
imperfectiy prepared for the outer life
which they imagine to be so much broad
er and fuller.
WE must never throw away bushel
of truth because it happens to contain a
few grains of chaff; on the contrary. we
may sometimes profitably receive bush
el of chaff for the few grains of truth it
may contain.
COMPLIMENTS which we think are de-
served, we accept only as debts, with in
difference; but those which conscience
informs US we do not merit, we receive
with the same gratitude that we do ia
vors given away.
HOWEVER good you may be, you
have faults; however dull you may be,
you can find out what some of them
are;and however slight they may be,you
had better make some patient efforts to
get quit of them.
EVERY question asked by child's
mind is reaching out toward the soul
of things, and every question rightly an
Swered and every law understood stim-
ulates the growth of the child's mind to-
ward the world that lies around it.
No government, no administration, no
laws, no amount of industry or COM
merce. no extent of freedom, can give
prosperity and solid comfort to the
homes of the people unless there be in
those homes economy, temperance and
the practice of virtue.
EXPERIENCE keeps dear school; but
fools will learn in no other, and scarce
in that; for it is true, we may give ad-
vice, but we cannot give conduct. How
ever, they that will not be counselled
cannot be helped, and if you will not
hear reason she will surely rap your
knuckles.
BE cheerful; do not brood over fond
hopes unrealized until chain, link af-
ter link, is fastened on each thought
and wound around the heart. Nature
intended you to be the fountain spring
of cheerfulnesS and social life, and not
the travelling monument of despair and
melancholy.
HUMAN nature cannot bear idolatry.
1t enfeebles the Judgment of the idola-
ter, and it rouses the lower nature of
the idolized. When love outstrips iudg-
ment and overpOwers wisdom, it must
needs fail to bring happiness; for happi-
ness comes mainly by wisdom in such
form as is best suited to the individual,
and to love beyond reason is to love to
ones own hurt.
To be vain is rather mark of humiI-
ity than pride. Vain men delight in
telling what honors have been done
them, what great company they have
kept, and the like; by which they plain
ly confess that these honors were more
than their due and such as their friends
would not believe if they had not been
told; whereas man truly proud thinks
the honor below his merit, and scorns to
boast.