Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-06
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


EVERY man feels instinctively that
all the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh less than single lovely action.
Truth has nothing to fear from error;
constant friction does but improve its
polish, even as it removes the rust from
steel.
HARD speech between those who have
loved is hideous in the memory, like the
sight of greatness and beauty sunk into
vice and rags.
PLATO, being told that some enemies
had spoken i'll Of him, said: at matters
not; will endeavor to live so that no
one shall believe them"
"WHEN 1 am making up a plan of
consequence" says Bolingbroke, 81 al
ways like to consult sensible woman"
Bolingbroke was a great man!
Discomfort is not only an evil in it.
self, but it implies some evil behind it,
and to discover its source is more use
full than to rail against its existence.
THERE is in all of us an impediment
to perfect happiness; namely, WEAKNESS
of the things which we possess, and a
desire for the things which we have not.
IF we had not within ourselves the
principles of bliss, we could not become
blest. The grain of heaven lies in the
breast, as the germ of the blossom lies
in the shut seed.
IN forming a judgment, lay your
hearts void Of forsaken opinions; else,
whatever is done or said will be meas
ured by wrong rule, like them who
have the jaundice, to whom everything
appeareth yellow.
WE are apt to ascribe our good or bad
fortune to our last action only, and not
to the many preceding actions; and we
hear, when we inquire of ourselves, as
when we ask echo, only the last words |
repeated.
WHEN the Icelander awakes, he sa-
luteS no person until he has saluted God. |
He usually hastens to the door, adores |
there the author of his being, then steps
to the house, and says to his family,
"God grant you good day"
THE more we live out of the world, |
the more little courtesies, such as are in
the crowd unheeded, are magniied in
favors; true, that the same process of |
exaggeration occurs in respect to petty |
affronts or inconsiderate sights. The
heart never attains the independence of
the mind.
JOY is one of the greatest panaceas of |
life. No joy is more healthful or better
calculated to prolong life than that
which is to be found in domestic happi- |
ness, in the company of good and cheer
full men, and In contemplating with de-
light the beauties of Nature.
THERE are few that are not aware at |
one time of their life or another that |
they know better way of living, of
doing. Goodness consists in living thus |
better, in doing thus better. What is
needed then is school for learning not |
so much what is to be done, as to do
what we know ought to be done.
IT is an old saying, that charity be-
gins at home; but this is no reason it
should not go abroad. A man should
live with the world as a citizen of the
world. He may have preference for the
particular quarter or square or even al
ley in which he lives, but he should
have generous feeling for the welfare
of the whole.
"NEvER a rose without a thorn" is an
axiom possessing much truth. 1t fol-
lows then that the thorns were created |
for the purpose of protecting the treas
ures of the bush. So do we often find |
in human life that beauties of the heart |
and mind are preserved by the thorns Of
bodies, unbeautiful faces, or
lack of wealth.
ALL the lessons we rightly learn in
the school of Divine wisdom are through !
SuffariDJ and self denial TamDtatiop