Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-30

fruit good in its kind, but unripe.
A MAN without predominant incli-
nation is not likely to be either useful
or happy. He who is everythingis is moth
ing.
No one is a more dangerous enemy to
all that is sweet and good in human life
than the one who lends impurity to the
sanction of splendid talents.
MEN admire strength, and have studi-
ed it and know even how to generate it;
but they have been neither so patient
nor so observant about weakness.
JEALOUSY is said to be the offspring
of love; vet unless the parent make
haste and strangle the child, the child
will not rest till it has poisoned the pa
rent.
If man does not make new acquaint-
ances as he advances in life,he will soon
find himself alone. A man should keep
his friendship in constant repair.
THE human race is divided into two
classes those who go ahead and do
something, and those who sit still and
inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other
way?"
A SUDDEN lie may sometimes be only
manslaughter on truth; but by careful
constructed equivocation, truth always
is with malice aforethought deliberately
murdered.
NEVER whip your brain. All high
pressure is dangerous. Study to think
as easily and as quietly as you breathe.
Never force yourself to learn what you
have not talent for.
IT is singular how impatient men are
with over praise of others, and how pa
tient of over praise of themselves; yet
the one does them no harm, and the
other may be their ruin.
FROM the day and the night, the hours
and the flying minutes, learn wise i'm
provement of time; and be watchful to
seize every opportunity to increase in
knowledge.
THERE is never vulgarity in a whole
truth, however commonplace. 1t may
be unimportant or painful. 1t cannot
be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in con-
cealment of truth or affectatiOn.
THE man who does not believe in his
own functions, high or low, is certain to
be particularly useless, and though he
may sometimes be an enlightened man,
may be also, and unusually is, much of a
moral coward.
NINE times out of ten, the work you
have to do is the work you ought not to
shirk, and to leave that work undone
because of faint inner hesitations, es-
pecially if you never act on them when
all is smooth, which would be discredit-
able, but that the whole world is doubt
full whether any man has right to any
thing, even to the position in which
Providence has obviously placed him.
WHEN the day comes that you sit
down broken, without one human crea-
ture to whom you cling; with your loves,
the dead and the living dead; when the
very thirst for knowledge, through long
continued thwarting has grown dull;
when in the present there is no craving,
and in the future no hOpe-then, oh
with what benefcent tenderness nature
enfolds you.
WHY will you keep caring for what
the world says? Try, oh, try to be no
longer a slave to it! You can have lit
tie idea of the comfort of freedom from
tit is bliss! All this caring for what
people say is from pride. Hoist your
flag and abide by it. In an infinitely
short space of time all secrets will be
divulged. Therefore, if you are mis-
judged, why trouble to put yourself
right? You have no idea what a great
deal of trouble it will save you.
MEN of fair character, and great abil-
tiles, often differ widely from each 9TH
er, on common occasions; and, if infla-
ted by pride, or warped by prejudice, are
as tenacious, imperiously positive, and
impatient of contradiction, as persons
of meaner capacities, and less acute dis
cernment. This however, must not be
understood in the least to depreciate the
faculty which distinguishes men from
brutes, and which, in itself. is a noble
endowment; nor ought we to forget that
it is our reason, good as well as evil
presentation, are made, and that the
right use of it depends on the rectified
state of the will.
LEARN from the earliest days to insure
your principles against the perils of rid
icule; you can no more exercise your
reason if you live in the constant dread
of laughter, that you can enjoy yonr life
if you are in constant dread of death.
If you think it right to differ from the
times, and to make point of morale, do
it, however antiquated, however pedan-
tic, it may appear; do it, not for inso-
lence, but seriously-as a man who
wore soul in his bosom, and did not
wait till it was breathed into him by the
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