Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-17

The hate which we all bear with the
most Christian patience is the hate of
those who envy us.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WHEN you have learned to listen, you
have already acquired the rudiments of
a good education.
ADVICE, like snow, the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon, and the deep
er it sinks into, the mind.
A PERSON who tells you the faults of
others, intends to tell Others of your
faults. Have care how you listen.
INEvER have seen an idea too big
for a sentence, but | have read thous-
ands of sentences too big for an idea.
THERE are four good mothers that
have four bad daughters; truth hath
hatred, prosperity hath pride, security
hath peril, and familiarity hath contempt.
THE greatest loss of time is delay and
expectation, which depends upon the fu-
ture. We let go the present, which we
have in our power, and look forward to
that which depends upon chance; and so
relinquish certainty for an uncertainty.
BY striving to obtain and to cherish
clear and true ideas of right, by empha-
sizing them in our thoughts, following
them in our conduct, and diffusing them
through our influence, we strike the
strongest and most effective blows at
every form of wrong-doing.
LIFE has been compared to fox
chase, for the pleasure consists in chas-
ing, not in overtaking your object; and
when you have caught the fame, fortune,
or rank-whatever you were hunting
you have but the poor qualification of
being in at the death of your own en-
joyment-unless you start a fresh quar-
ry.
CHILDREN should be Injured as early
as possible to acts of charity and mercy.
Constantine, as soon as his son could
write, employed his hand in signing par
dons, and delighted in conveying all the
favors he granted through his mouth
a noble introduction to sovereignty,
which is instituted for the happiness of
mankind.
HE who cannot resist temptation is
not man. He is wanting in the high
est attributes of humanity. The honor
and the nobleneSs of the old knight
errantry consisted in defending the in
nocence of men, and protecting the chas-
tity of women against the assaults of
others. But true and noble knighthood
protects the property and the character,
the innocence and the chastity of others
against ones self.
THE circumstances of life are as va
ried as the moods of our mind. Some
times we are in green pastures beside a
still stream, the recipients of happy in
fluences, and in no other danger than
that of loving the transient scene too
well. Then we are hurried from this
flowery path into rugged and difficult
ways, when we have need of help every
moment, and are for time so taken up
with our cares and troubles that we can
but just discern our guiding star.
PLEASURE is to woman what the sun
is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed,
it beauties, it refreshes and it improves;
if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates
and destroys. But the duties of domes-
tic life exercised, as they must be, in re-
tirement, and calling forth all the sensi-
bilities of the female, are perhaps, as
necessary to the full development of her
charms, as the shade and shower are to
the rose, confirming its beauty, and in
creasing its fragrance.
WHEN the veil of death has been
drawn between us and the objects of our
regard, how quick sighted do We become
to their merits, and how bitterly do we
then remember words or looks of un-
kindness which may have escaped us in
our intercourse with them! How care
full should such thoughts render us in the
fulfllment of those offices of affection
which it may be in our power to per
form! for who can tell how soon the mo-
ment may arrive when repentance can
not be followed by reparation?
THE following, although brief, is both
beautiful and comprehensive: Every fly,
and every pebble, and every flower, are
tutors in the great school of nature, tc
instruct the mind and improve the heart.
The four elements are the four volumes
in which all the works are written
Every man has in his own life follies
enough; in his own mind, troubles
enough; in the performance of his du-
ties, deficiencies enough; in his own for
tune, evils enough, without being curl
Gus about the affairs of others.
ALL times and seasons should bt
marked among sensible men by proper
views of themselves, their circumstances
and their destinies. 1t was for this they
have been gifted not only with percep
tions to see present events but reflect or
2 those that are past, and by the just ex
ercise of fancy to try and forecast thu
good and evil, the light and shadow o
what is to come. Those who make ;
right use of their faculties in these re
spects, with every passing moment pos
sibly, and certainly with every passing
day, are more likely to extract highe
pleasure out of life, more wisely and ben
eicially assist others, and walk thei
way in the world with more enlighten
nanf than THAR Iesa th0uDhtfuI fellows