Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-24
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


who can make sunshine in cloudy day
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
A YOUNG person without religion is
like ship without a ballast, or like a
feather in whirlwind.
HEALTH is so necessary to all the du-
ties as well as pleasures of life that the
crime of squandering it is equal to the
folly.
A WISE man being asked how old he
was, replied, 81 am in health;" and be-
ing asked how rich he was, said, 81 am
not in debt"
ONE of the illusions is that the pres
ent hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year.
If man has a right to be proud of
anything, it is of good action, done as
it ought to be, without any base interest
lurking at the bottom of it.
THE end of hearing and learning is,
not to fill our heads with notions, or our
mouths with talk, but to rectify and di-
rect our affections and conversations.
81 RESOLVE" says Bishop Beveridge,
"never to speak of a mans virtues be-
fore his face, or of his faults behind his
back" golden rule, the observance of
which would at one blow Danish flattery
and defamation from the earth.
IT has been shrewdly said that when
men abuse us we should suspect our
selves, und when they praise us, them.
1t is rare instance of virtue to despise
censure which we not deserve; and still
more to despise praise which we do.
THE best way to live is TO cast away
troubles and contentious, which cannot
be cured by fretting. In justice to the
requirements of the present, you should
not look back and make yourself wretch
ed over things that cannot be undone.
If any speak i'll of thee flee home to
thy own conscience, and examine thy
heart; if thou be guilty, it is just cor
rection; if not guilty, it is fair instruct
ion; make use of both; so shalt thou dis
till honey out of gall, and out OF an open
enemy create a friend.
SUCH help as we can give each other
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and the man who perceives superiori-
ty or capacity is a subordinate, and
neither confesses nor assists it, is not
merely the witholder of kindness, but
the committer of injury.
TIE history of the past is a mere pup
pet show A little man comes out and
blows little trumpet, and goes in again.
You look for something new, and lol
another little man comes out, and blows
another little trumpet, and goes in
again; and it is all over.
If we wish that the virtue of our
daughters should be of sterling stamp,
not forged in the mint of vanity, but is
suing from principle, we shall be per-
suaded of the necessity of guarding
against those early associations by which
the love of admiration is produced.
1t is not poverty so much as pretence
that harnesses ruined mantle strug-
gle between proud mind and an empty
purse-the keeping up hollow show
that must soon come to an end. Have
the courage to appear poor and you
disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
To show that a man was sincere in
all his life-course is to show that he did
not intend to be wrong; but it does not
show that he was right in his opinions
or correct in his conduct. There is such
thing as giving too much credit to {
man simply on the ground of his unmis
taxable sincerity.
How many occasions of doing good
in a greater or less measure, are passed
by from irresolutionl While we are
saying to ourselves, "Shall |, or shall
not?" the moment flies away, and thu
blossom of Joy which we might hav'
given to it is withered, and often can
not be revived by any tears of repent
ance.
FoNDNEss for children denotes mo-
only kind heart but a guileless one. 4
knave always detests children-their in
nocent looks and open brows speak dag
gers TO him-he sees his own villain,