Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-22

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The soul that perpetually overfows
with kindness and sympathy will always
be cheerful.
Some one has said that boasting of
what you do is as unwise as to adver
tiSe your prosperity.
There is nothing in the universe 1
fear, but that shall not know all my
duty, or shall fail to do it.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
PRIDE breakfasted with Plenty, dined
with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.
CONCENTRATION is the secret of
strength. Trust yourself; every heart
vibrates to that iron string.
THE men who listen well, and are not
in haste to impart their own secrets, are
the ones who generally get along in the
world.
THERE is a vanity and egotism
in always bewailing our misdoings
as well as in recounting our virtuous
actions.
LOVE only unlocks the door upon that
futurity where the isles of the blessed
lie like stars. Affection is the stepping
stone to God.
THE golden beams of truth and the
silken cords of love, twisted together,
will draw men on with sweet violence,
whether they will or not.
YOUTH, enthusiasm and tenderness
are like the days of spring. Instead of
complaining, o my heart, or their brief
duration, try to enjoy them.
IT is a truth never to be overlook
ed that good increases and triumphs
through the emphasis laid upon it, while
evil dwindles and decays by silence and
neglect.
1 DON'T subscribe at all to the doctrine
of striving to be cheerful" Let us
have a reasonable cheerfulness, and mel
ancholy, too, if there is occasion for it
and no more hypocrisy in life than
need be.
| CONSCIENCE is like a sun-dial. If you
let truth shine upon it, it will point you
right; but you may cover it over SO that
no truth can fall upon it, and then it
will lead you astray if you follow its
guidance.
QUICK is the succession of human
events; the cares of to-day are seldom
the cares of tomorrow; and when we
lie down at night we may safely say to
most of our troubles, "Ye have done
your worst; we shall meet no more"
THE balance sheet of our sins and
deeds is kept with rigid accuracy by
our Master; we are not deprived of our
deserts either for good or for evil. So
surely as you sin, so surely shall you
suffer. Goodness brings peace, wicked
ness brings remorse.
WHEN the boy or girl are yet sprout-
ing into manhood and womanhood they
may be little impatient under restraint;
but every after-year of independence
will teach the young man and maiden
that there were no advantages like those
which their parents gave them.
KNOW not why we should delay our
tokens of respect to those who deserve
them until the heart that our sympathy
could have gladdened has ceased to beat.
As men cannot read the epitaphs in
scribed upon the marble that covers
them, so the tombs we erect to virtue
often only prove our repentance that we
neglected it when with US.
LOOK on the bright side. 1t is the
right side. The times may be hard, but
it will make them no easier to wear a
gloomy and sad countenance. 1t is the
sunshine and not the cloud that makes
the flower. The sky is blue ten times
where it is black and gloomy once. You
have troubles; so have others. None are
free from them. Trouble gives courage
to man.
THE best way of acquiring good man
ners is by mixing with really refined,
agreeable, courteous, clever people. Un-
consciously one takes the tone from
them, and the lesson is an easy, pleasant |
one. Of course some people have a |
charm of manner all their own they |
were born with it, it is gift, just like |
sweet voice, but by cultivation it can be
made more fascinating.
GREAT merit or great failings will |
make you respected or despised; but |
trifes, little attentions, mere nothings, |
either done or neglected, will make you |
either liked or disliked, in the general |
run of the world. Examine yourself, |
why you like such and such people, and
dislike such and such others, and you
will find that those different sentiments
proceed from very slight causes.
NOTHING opens so wide door to vice,
to crime, to evil habits of every descrip-
tien, as the absence of occupation. The
downward course of many promising
youth, the ruin of many hopeful life,
may be distinctly traced to the void
caused by having nothing definite and
positive to do. The faculties must be
active, the energies must be at work;
and, if not employed for good, they
will be for evil.
EVERY period of life has its peculiar
temptations and dangers. But youth is
the time when we are most likely to be
ensnared. This, prominently, is the
forming, fixing period, the spring sea-
son of disposition and habit; and it is
during this season, more than any 9th
er, that the character assumes its perma-
nent shape and color, and the young are
wont to take their course for time and
for eternity. ;;