Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-16

| MeekneSS, modeSty and humlllty, are
graces entirely independent of the shape
of the body.
If the ages of men were determined
by their virtues, many lives would be
short indeed.
1t is not uncommon for people to cen
sure others for faults to which they are
themselves addicted.
The superficial often applaud vanity
and weakness, when they fancy they are
admiring and approving virtue.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THAT action is best which procures
the greatest happiness for the greatest
number.
NOTHING is so contagious as example;
we are never either much good or much
evil without imitators.
To develop in each individual all the
perfection of which he is susceptible, is
the object of education.
GREAT is the number of those who
might attain to true wisdom, if they
did not already think themselves wise.
No exterior accomplishments can coun-
tervail the want of discretion and good
dispositions, in an every day companion.
WE appreciate no pleasures unless we
are occasionally deprived of them. Re
straint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
SOME persons cannot help telling what
they know. A busy-body is most liable
to become tattler upon every occasion.
SPITE is little word, but it represents
as strange a jumble of feelings and com
pound of discords as any polysyllable in
the language.
As to the pure all things are pure, so
the common mind sees far more vulgar
ity in others than the mind developed in
genuine refnment.
WE must row with the oars which we
have, and as we cannot order the wind
we are obliged to sail with, we must
take the wind that comes.
NOTHING can work me damage except
myself; the harm that l sustain l carry
about with me, and never am real suf
ferer but by my own faults.
IT is very natural and common for
persons haunted by the spirit of discon-
tent to try to escape from it by charg
ing the cause of it upon others.
BE not too hasty to erect general the
ories from few particular observations,
appearances or experiments. This is |
what the logicians call a false induction. |
THERE is a pleasure in contemplating
good; there is greater pleasure in re-
ceiving good; but the greatest pleasure |
is doing good, which comprehends the
rest.
THoUGH it be not in our power to
make affiiction no affiiction, yet it is in
our power to take off the edge of it by a |
steady view of those divide joys prepar
ed far us in another state.
HUMILITY is a virtue that all preach,
few practice, and yet everybody is con-
tent to hear. The master thinks it good
doctrine for his servant, the laiety for
the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
IHAvE much more confidence in the
charity which begins in the home and
diverges into a large humanity, than in
the worldwide philanthropy which be-
gins at the outside of our horizon to con-
verge into egotism.
If every curse should stick a visible
blister on the tongue, as 1t does insensl
BILE ones on the soul, how many mems
tongues would be too big for their
mouths, and their mouths as an open
sepulchre full of dead mems bones.
HALF the real education of life comes
from our observations. And in making
use of our powers in this respect let us
keep our minds as free as possible from
passions and prejudices; for these will
give wrong turn to our observations,
both on persons and things.
FREE thinkers are commonly but half
thinkers. They begin to build before
they have got to solid ground; and
though, to superficial observers, the sew
eral parts of the superstructure may give
the idea of consistent whole-it may af-
ford but poor shelter in the time of trial.
IN making your observations on per-
sons take care of indulging that busy Gu
riosity which is ever inquiring into pri-
vate and domestic affairs with an end |