Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-09

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tween wreck and prosperity.
A mans virtues should be measured
not by his occasional exertions, but by
the doings of his ordinary life.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE Hindoos extend their hospitality
to their enemies, saying: The tree doe:
not withdraw its shade even from the
wood cutter"
To reprove small faults with undue
vehemence is as absurd as to seek to re-
move fly from friends forehead with
sledge-hammer.
HAsTY words often rankle the wound
which injury gives; but soft words as
suage it, fOrgiving cures it, and forget
ting takes away the scar.
THE devil tempts men through their
ambitions, their cupidity, their appe-
tites, until he comes to the profane
swearer, whom he clutches without any
reward.
GOD's livery is very plain one; but
its wearers have good reason to be con-
tent. If it has not so much gold lace
about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul
weather better, and besides, it is great
deal cheaper.
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another to o-morrow-who drives an idea
pell-mell this week while it drives him
the next-iS always in trouble, and does
nothing from one years end to the other.
A MAN that hath no virtue in himself
never envieth virtue in others; for mems
minds will either feed upon their own
good or upon others evil; and who want
eth the one will prey upon the other.
To be worth anything character must
be capable of standing firmly on its feet
in the world of daily work, temptation
and trial, and able to bear the wear and
tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues
do not count for much.
PLEASURE is rose, near which there
ever grows the thorn of evil. 1t is wis
dom'S work so carefully to Gull the rose
as to avoid the thorn, and let its rich
perfume exhale to heaven, in grateful
alteration of Him who gave the rose to
blow.
IT has been beautifully said that 'the
veil which covers the face of futurity is
woven by the hand of mercy" Seek
not to raise the veil, therefore, for sad
ness might be seen to shade the brow
that fancy had arrayed in smiles of glad
ness.
Your conversation-of what charac-
ter is it? Whatever it may be, be as
sured it is an unerring index to your
heart. The tree is known by its fruit.
Out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh. Let your words be
words of truth and purity.
You must be sure of two things; you
must love your work, and not be always
looking over the edge of it, wanting
your play to begin. And the other is,
you must not be ashamed of your work,
and think it would be more honorable
to yoL to be doing something else.
LEARNING, like travelling and all 9TH
er methods of improvement, as it finishes
good sense, so it makes silly man ten
thousand times more insufferable by
supplying variety of matter to his i'm
pertinence, and giving him opportunity
of abounding in aburditieS.
A MANS name is not like a mantle,
which merely hangs about him, and
which one perchance may safely twitch
and pull; but perfectly fitting garment
which, like the skin, has grown over
and over him, at which one cannot take
and scrape without injuring the man
himself.
THE best rule is to be polite to every
one, and, unless rudeness amounts to
positive and intentional insult, to take
no heed of it. 1t is the only way to be
happy, in world where every second
man is too obtuse, and every third one
too ill-tempered, to be pleasantly and
frankly courteous.
THEY are the strong ones of the earth
the mighty food for good or evil-those
who know how to keep silence when it is
a pain and grief to them; those who
give time to their own souls to wax
strong against temptation, or to the
powers of wrath to stamp upon them
their whitening passage.
INDUSTRY will make man purse,
and frugality will find strings for it.
Neither the purse nor the strings will
cost anything. He who has it should
draw the strings as frugality directs,
and he will be sure always to find use
full penny at the bottom of it. The ser
wants of industry are known by their
livery; it is always whole and wholesome.
Idleness travels very leisurely, and pov-
erty soon overtakes him. Look at the
ragged slaves of idlenes3, and Judge
which is the best to serve, industry or
idleness.
How calm the mind, how composed
the affections, how serene the counte-
nance, how melodious the voice, how
sweet the sleep, how contented the whole
life is of him that neither deviseth mis-
chief against others, nor suspects any
to be contrived against himself; and,
contrariwise, how ungrateful and loath-
some thing it is to abide in state
of enmity, wrath, dissension, having the
thought distracted with s0licitous care.
anxious suspicion, and envious regret. :