Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27

Ihate to see things done by halves. If
it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong,
leave it undone.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
LIFE is a journey, and he who has the
least of burden to carry travels the
fastest and most happily.
He who esteems himself as naught is
of much value; he who believes himself
of much value is in reality worthless.
He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest. 1t is your cool dis
sembling hypocrites of whom you should
beware.
THERE are two kinds of pity; one is
balm, the other poison. The first is
realized by our friends, the other by our
enemies.
THERE is no dearth of charity in the
world in giving; but there is compare
lively little exercised in thinking and
speaking.
lf d uldll CIl pI1Co ulo puioC ll1O llic
head, no man can take it from him. An
investment in knowledge always pays
the best interest.
Few have learned that a man is of
no value except to God and other men.
Self would fain be worshiped instead
of worshiping.
LUCKY he who can bear his failure
generously, and give up his broken
sword to Fate, the Conqueror, with a
manly and humble heart.
LET us not dream that reason can be
popular. Passions, emotions may be
made popular, but reason remains ever
the great property of the elect few.
THERE is no tedium of solitude to
him who has within himself resources
of thought and dream, the pleasure and
pain of memory, the bliss and torture
of imagination.
AT whatever period of life friendships
are formed, so long as they continue
sincere and affectionate they form un-
doubtedly one of the greatest blessings
we can enjoy.
THERE are three things which the
world can never take from me; the hap
piness of prayer, of suffering and of de-
votion. can enjoy this happiness al
ways and everywhere.
MANNERS are what veX or soothe, cor
rupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbar
iZe or refine us, by a constant, steady,
uniform, insensible operation, like that
of the air we breathe.
THE truly learned are humble, and
all, with Newton, bow down in profound
est worship before the great God, whose
footprints they discover and follow in
every corner of the globe.
SCEPTICIsM, which at first sight seems
a disease of the mind, is in reality a
disease of the heart. 1t originates either
in the corruption of the political state
or in the degradation of the philosophi-
cal spirit.
HOWEVER good you are, you have
faults; however dull you may be, you
can find out what some of them are;
and, however slight they may be, you
had better make some-not too painful
but patient efforts to get rid of them.
Do not judge man by the clothes he
wears. God made one and the tailor the
other. Do not Judge him by his family,
for Cain belonged to good family. Do
not judge man by his failure in life,
for many man fails because he is too
honest to succeed.
THEY are the tears that fall into the
new-made grave that cement the power
of the priest. For the cry of the soul
that loves and loses is this: Bridge over
death; bind the here with the hereafter;
cause the mortal to robe it itself in i'm
mortality; let me say of my dead that it
is not dead. l will believe all else, bear
all else, endure all else"
NEXT only to the man who achieves
the greatest and most blessed deeds is
he who, perhaps himself wholly incapa-
BILE of such high work, is yet the first to
help and encourage the genius of others.
We often do more good by our sympa-
thy than by our labors, and render to
the world more lasting service by ab-
sence of jealousy and recognition of
merit than we could ever render by the
straining efforts of personal ambition.
1t takes imagination to realize vivid
ly anything outside of our own consci-
BUSINESS, but, directly we have this keen
realization of another's condition, we
are in some sort of sympathy with him.
Who would tread upon worm or want
only crush a butterfly or kick dog if
he were vividly realizing the pain he
was inflicting? And, still more, who
would wound fellow being by word or
deed or look, who would oppress the
poor, cheat the ignorant, or despise the
feeble, if the distress they created was
ever present before them? So true is it
that "Evil is wrought by want of thought.
as well as want of heart"
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