Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09

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looks at other people through the wrong
end of the telescope.
Patience is the ballast of the soul, that
will keep it from rolling and tumbling
in the greatest storm
The pleasures of the palate deal with
us like Egyptian thieves who strangle
those whom they embrace.
That time is the worst employed which
we give to regrets, unless we learn from
them the lessons of the future.
One of the easiest things for some
people to do, is to persuade themselves
that it isn't their duty to do anything.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WE are apt to fall into relapses;where-
fore we had better overcome our sorrow
than delude it.
WHEN people find out that a man is
mean at home, they don't care how good
he processes to be at church.
EVERY man has weak side. Every
wise man knows where it is, and will be
sure to keep double guard there.
In the loss of an object we do not pro-
portion our grief to its real value, but to
the value our fancies set upon it.
No recreation is real which does not
recreate. He never has good time
who lives only that he may have good
time.
THE good Samaritan didn't stop to
find out what street the wounded Jew
lived on, or who his father was before
he helped him.
1t must not suffice that man take
steps that shall at last lead to the object
he has in view; each step must be in it
self an object.
He who initiates what is evil goes be-
yond the example that is set; on the
contrary, he who initiates what is good
always falls short.
IF you are told that you resemble
great man say nothing 1t may be that
the resemblace will cease the moment
you open your mouth.
GIVE to the masses nothing to do and
they will topple down thrones and cut
throats; give them government and they
will make pulpits useless and colleges
an impertinence.
If thou would'st conquer thy weak
ness thou must never crafty it. No man
is compelled to do evil; his consent only
makes it his. 1t is no sin to be tempted,
but to be overcome.
GLORY and curiosity are the scourges
of our souls. The latter induceth us to
have an oar in every ship, and the form
er forbids us to leave anything unresolv-
ed or undecided.
IT is success that colors all in life;
success makes fools admired, makes vii
lains honest; all the proud virtue of this
vaunting world fawns on success and
power, however acquired.
A BRUsQUE bearing. rough address,
are utterly incompatible with courtesy.
The man who displays them may pos
sess a thousand virtues, but he has not
this accomplishments nor the first element
of it.
IMAGINARY evils soon become real
ones by indulging our reflections upon
them; as he who in melancholy fancy
sees something like face upon the wall
can by two or three strokes of pencil
make it look visible.
AN honest reputation is within the
reach of all men; they can obtain it by
social virtues and by doing their duty.
This kind of reputation, it is true, is
neither brilliant nor startling, but it is
often the most useful for happiness.
THE brain stands more abuse than
any other organ in the body. Its best
tonic and stimulant is success. The
worst and most depressing thing to it is
failure. The most injurious effects
come by using stimulants in early life.
On with your mission, and never a
summing of results in hand, nor thirst
for prospects, nor counting upon har-
vests; for seed sown in faith day by day
is the mighty harvest of the soul-and
with the soul we work, with the soul we
see.
WHAT greater thing is there for two
human souls than to feel that they are
joined for life-to strengthen each other
in all labor, to rest on each other in all
sorrow, to minister to each other in all
pain, to be one with each other in silent
unspeakable memories at the moment
of the last parting?
THE years do little for us if they do
not teach us modesty, if they do not con-
vince us how little we really know of