Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

CONVICTION Is IN itself a power. Ih'
man who is sure of what he says give
assurance to those who hear him.
Ifyou are not making the world bet
ter, it will be worse for your having liv
ed. No man can leave the world as h
found it.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
Do instantly whatever is to be done
take the hours of reflection or recreation
after business and never before it.
1 THINK about the only difference be
tween people in this world is that som'
know what they want, and some don't.
WHATEVER business you have, do /
at the first moment you can-never b.
halves, but finish it without interruption
if possible.
AT the same time that we take de
light in vice, there springs in the con
science a displeasure which afliicts us
sleeping and waking with many torment
ing imaginations.
Much of the disorder and unhappines:
of life in school, in the family, or in &
community, comes from our inability
to understand or tolerate the qualitie:
of character in others which we do not
possess ourselves.
MAKE sobriety a habit and intemper.
ance will become hateful; make pru.
dence habit and reckless profigacy
will be as contrary to the nature of the
grown or adult, as the most atrocious
crime to any of us.
THE violence of love is as much to be
dreaded as that of hate. When it is
durable, it is serene and equable. Even
its famous pains only begin with the ebb
of love; for few are indeed lovers, tho
all would fain be.
FINE sense and exalted sense are not
not half so useful as common sense;
there are forty men of wit for one man
of sense; and he that will carry nothing
about with him but gold will be every
day at loss for want of reader change.
ECCENTRICITY has always abounded
when and where strength of character
abounded; and the amount of eccentrici-
ty in society has generally been pro-
portioned to the amount of genius, men
tai vigor, and moral courage which it
contained.
WHOEVER is conscious Of faithful,
earnest effort should regard his tempo
rary failures with a calm and untroubled
spirit. Regret them he must, learn les
sons from them he may, but to sink in
to despair because of them is both un-
reasonable and unmanly.
WE cannot change our low spirits in
to higher or our mournful feelings into
CHEEKY ones by simply determining to
do so; but we can apply our force to
bear upon the conditions on which they
rest, we can put to flight many causes
of detection and nourish many germs of
serenity and comfort.
IT may be said that life is too short
and too busy for most of us to allow of
deep thought and accurate conclusions.
If this be so, surely it ought to make us
at least careful and modest in our as
sertions. 1t is not absolutely essential
that we should form decided opinions on
which we may think, but it is very
necessary that we do not form false ones.
WE are very apt to divide human life
into the pleasant and the unpleasant, the
sweet and the bitter, JOY and sorrow,
good and evil, and to suppose that out
of the former springs all our happiness
and welfare-out of the latter, all our
misery and failure. In so doing, how
ever, we entirely ignore the fact that
contrast is a necessary and valuable ele-
ment in life and happiness.
THE men and women of the large heart
and of the large brain do not measure
themselves by common standards of the
pulpit or the platform, or any standard
that men set up. They measure them
selves by the great pillars of the universe.
And, when men thus stand by the side
of these great pillars planted on the
earth and lost in the sky, they are and
feel themselves to be exceedingly hum
BILE.
SOME persons seem to live and move
in spirit of criticism. They suspect
and detect the faults and weaknesses of
those whom they meet; their minds
dwell upon them, and their lips make
them known. Others as naturally see
the opposite side. Whatever is beauti-
full in the character OF lovely in the con-
duct attracts them and fixes their atten-
ton, and the rest drops into forgetful-
ness. 1t need hardly be said that to the
latter only can the charm of attractive
ness belong. The fault-seeker and the
fault-finder will always be grievances to
be Stunned.
NOTHING is simpler or easier than the
power of pleasing. 1t does not require
any peculiar talents or any superhuman
effort. 1t is not confined to any condi-
ton of life; nor is it dependent on any
circumstances. All it de-
mands is the presence of sympathetic
spirit, willingness to be pleased, de-
sire to see the bright side of things and
to discover the best points in peo-
pie, a frankness and openness of dispo-
,ition, a readiness to leave self and 9th
er engrossing objects, and to enter heart
ly into subjects more acceptable. Who
sver will cultivate these qualities and
habits of mind will find new life open
ng up within him-a life that will be
increasing that of his fellow
men.