Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-23

ferred is little less than reproach.
If you wish to write well, study the
life about you in the public streets.
Brave actions are the substance of
life, and good sayings the ornament OF it,
The feelings, like flowers and butter
flies, last longer the later they are delayed.
Economy is a savings bank into which
men drop pennies and get dollars back.
Every one complains of the badness
of his memory but nobody of his judg-
ment.
The martyrs of vice far exceed the
martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and
number.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
TRUE generosity remembers benefits
received, and forgers those it has con-
ferred.
BE kind to your friends that you may
keep them; be kind to your enemies that
they may become friends.
THERE are profound sorrows which
remain stored in our souls, and which
we always find there when we are mel
ancholy.
EVERY morning mediate on the un-
certainty of the time to come, and every
evening examine the employment of the
day past.
ALL things come round TO him who
will but wait, though the chances are
that in the meantime he will lose all ap-
petite for them.
ONE great difference between wise
man and fool is, the former only wish
es for what he may possibly obtain, the
latter desires impossibilities.
HARD, toilsome work, while necessa-
ry and honorable, should always be re-
garded as work in its first stages. 1t is
our own fault if it continues so.
IT is easy to be noble among the no
BILE. The difficult thing is to keep the
nobility of ones nature unperverted
among the perverted and ignoble.
THE man who howls loudest about the
equality of man" is invariably the man
who is most firmly convinced that the
world contains no one equal to himself.
ANSWER with complaisance when you
are spoken to; sit not while others stand;
do everything with an air of cheerful
ness, and not with grave, sour look, as
if you did it unwillingly.
PATIENCE strengthens the spirit, t,sweet-
ems the temper, stiles anger, extinguish
es envy, subdues pride, it brides the
tongue, restrains the hand, and tramp
les upon upon temptations.
INDUSTRY makes man a purse, and
carefulness gives him strings to it. He
that has it need only draw the strings
as carefulness directs, and he will al
ways find useful penny at the bottom
of it.
THE best helper in trouble, the best
guide to the erring, is not the one who
is utterly unnerved by the distress which
his sympathy causes him. Like the
skillful surgeon, his head must be clear
and his hand steady, if he is to probe to
the seat of the trouble and administer
efficient relief.
EVERY man of brains makes some
kind of life purpose for himself. He
gets goal before his eyes and "gOes for
it." The goal may be worth living for
or it may not. The way to it may be
compatible with health and happiness or
it may not. These are points for the
man himself to determine.
PARENTS and teachers who would not
for the world countenance deception in
the young, really pave the way for it by
discouraging their crude but original
thoughts, and debating their own in
stead. Children are quick to see and
avoid disapproval, and thus many les
son of duplicity is learned with fatal
permanence.
If more pains were taken to build up
the feebler parts of the nature, there
would be less need to pull down the
stronger. For virtues bear relation to
each other which never can be disturb
ed with impunity. They cannot flourish
alone, and he who excels in one has the
utmost need to cultivate another which
may seem opposed, but which is in real
ity its counterpart.
THE strongest and finest natures have
the sharpest contrasts in their charac-
ters. Who does not admire the man
who can be hero in time of need, and
gentle and tender to the weak or suffer
ing; or the one who has profound con-
victions of his, yet is patient with and
tolerant to those who oppose him; or the
one who has intense desires, and is able
to control them? 1t is the want of these
counterpoises in character that makes so
many weak, one-sided, and erring NOR
tails.
IT is not possible for us to live always
in the early morning. Spring blossoms
into summer and summer flows into an
tumn which, in its turn, is lost in the
death of winter; and the gladdest day
that ever broke must of necessity end in |
night. But we can delay somewhat and |
utilize always. 1t rests with ourselves |
how much enjoyment we get out of life
and how much we do between dawn and |
dark. If we take advantage of the first |
beginnings and live with the sun, we ex-
pand and garner by just so much more.
STRICTLY, no two persons can see the |
same thing in the same way, for il can |
never happen that two persons have pre-
cisely the same groups of ideas relating
to any subject. These depend on our past
on our education, on the be-
liefs of our times, on our various sects
or parties, on our pet theories, our in
terests, and our desires. Did we but
bear this in mind, how many quarrels
and disputes might be saved. How
modest we should be in condemning,
how gentle in reproying, how careful in
counselling.