Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-18

Too much sensibility creates unhap
piness; too much insensibility creates
crime.
He who, with good health, has tru'
friend, may laugh adversely to scorn anC
defy the world.
Many people make the mistake o.
leaving executors to do that which the,
could have done better themselves.
1t is the man who is neither just no
generous who is most apt in the use OF
the phrase, "Be just before you are gen
erous."
In family government let this always
be remembered, that no reproof or de
nunciation is SO potent as the silent in
fluence of a good example.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
TRUE knowledge is to know ones OWL
ignorance.
IT is not necessary to be mean be-
cause one is man of means.
AMBITION thinks no face so beautiful
as that which looks from under crown.
OUR incomes, like our shoes, if too
small will gall and pinch us, but if too
large will cause US to stumble and to
trip.
How often in this world actions which
we condemn are the result of sentiments
which we love and opinions that we ad-
mire.
TALENT is the capacity of doing any
thing which depends on application and
industry, and it is a voluntary power,
while genius is involuntary.
EVERY mans success is within him
self and must come out of himself. No
true, abiding and just success can come
to any man in any other way.
GOOD men, however able and brave,
who have suffered from the wicked, are
apt to form exaggerated notions of the
power that has prevailed against them.
Too much reading and too much med
itation may produce the effect of a lamp
inverted. which is extinguished by the
excess of the oil whose office is to feed it.
A WELL cultivated mind is, so to
speak, made up of all the minds of pre-
ceding ages; it is only one single mind
which has been educated during all this
time.
AT whatever period of life friendships
are made, so long as they continue sin
cere and affectionate they form undOubt-
edly one of the greatest blessings we
can enjoy.
KNOWLEDGE is proud that he has
learned SO much; wisdom is humble that
he knows no more. True eloquence con-
sists in saying all that is necessary and
nothing more.
THE man who is beyond fear or favor
in every direction is one who stands a
head and shoulders above the crowd.
He is the king where these others, the
majority, are only serfs.
BE always frank and true; spurn ev-
cry kind of affectation and disguise.
Have the courage TO confess your ignor
ance and awkwarkness; and confde
your faults and follies to but few.
JUDGE no one by his relations, what
ever criticisms You pass upon his COM
panions. Relations, like features, are
thrust upon us; companions, like clothes,
are more or less our own selection
SUCCESS must:come sooner or later, if
you make up your mind not to be beat
en-. 1t matters not how poor you may
be. Once overcome the disappointment
of failure, and you have attained sue
cess.
IT is poor encouragement to toll thro'
life to amass fortune to ruin your chill
dren. In nine cases out of ten large
fortune is the greatest curse which could
be bequeathed to the young and inexpe
rienced.
REASON is, SO to speak, the police of
the kingdom of art, seeking only to pre-
serve order; in life itself cold arithme-
tician who adds up her foIlies-some-
times, alas, only the accountant in bank
ruptcy of broken heart.
WHAT chimera is man! What a
confused chaosl What a subject of
contradiction! \ Judge of all things,
yet feeble worm on earth! The great
guardian and depository of truth, yet a
mere bubble of uncertainty. The glory
and the scandal of the universe.
THE weaknesses and vices that arise
from a constant intercourse with books
are, in certain respects, the same with
those which arise from daily intercourse
with the world, yet each has character
and operation of its own, which may
counteract or aggravate the tendency of
the other.
AGAINST the purely stupid we are
powerless. 1t is not that stupid people
do not think; on the contrary, they think
too much. Il thought" is ever on their
tongue, and prefaces the explanation of
every dreadful misdeed. Only they al
ways think-that is the mischief.
LET us seek our peace by fidelity. Let
me do my duties. Why need go gad-
ding into the scenes and philosophy of
Greek and Italian history before l have |
washed my own face or justified myself
to my benefactors? How dare l read
Washington's campaign when l have
not answered my own correspondents?
WHAT is most wanting to arduous en-
terprises, in the present day, is-time.
We can scarcely command few hours
of undisturbed or effectual activity. We
live in the midst of tempest or dead
calms, condemned alternately to ship
wreck or inaction. More rapid and con-
trolling than ourselves, events carry
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