Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07

our living.
INseeking wisdom thou art wise; il
imagining that thou hast attained it
thou art a fool.
REASON cannot show itself more rea
sonable than to cease reasoning on things
that are above reasoning.
FRIENDS are as companions on jour
ney, who ought to aid each other to per
severe in the road to happy life.
THERE is no surer mark of the alb
sence of the highest moral and intellect
ual qualities than cold reception of ex-
cellence.
ALL night and all over the world,
bitter tears are dropping as regular as
the dew, and cruel memories are haunt
ing the pillow.
WEIGH not so much what men are as
what they prove; remembering that truth
is simple and naked, and not an inven-
tion to apparel her comeliness.
RESOLVE to edge in a little reading
every day, if it is but single sentence;
if you gain fifteen minutes a day, it
makes itself felt at the end of the year.
THE soul must sometimes sweat blood.
Nothing great is achieved without the
severest discipline of heart and mind;
nothing is well done that is done easily.
NATURE when she plants vegetable
poison, generally provides an antidote;
so in the moral world, she causes sympa-
thies to spring up by the side of antipa-
thies.
LIFE is too short to be wasted in petty
worries, frettings, hatreds, and vexa-
tions Let us Danish all these, and
think on whatsoever things are pure and
lovely and gentle and of good report.
PEOPLE who have no occupation must
worry. The human heart is like mill
stone-if you put wheat under it, it
grinds the wheat, if you put no wheat, it
grinds on, but then it is itself it wears
away.
terest in simple, innocent and inexpen-
sive pleasures. We may thus aid in
diffusing that spirit of contentment
which is of itself rich and a permanent
possession.
A HOUSE built on sand is, in fair
weather, just as good as if builded on a
A cobweb is as good as the
*iest chain cable when there is no
Dmca it. 1t is trial that proves one
TX and another strong.
bs. Sc kFUL temper, joined with in
Fracuill make beauty attractive,
~ delightful, and good natured.
s}sAghten sickness, poverty, afiiict-
convert ignorance into amiable SIM
: piicity, and render even deformity agree
able.
If you want knowledge, you must toll
for it; if food, you must toll for it; and
if pleasure you must toll for it. Toll is
the law. Pleasure comes through toll,
and not by self-indulgence and indo-
lence. When man gets to love work
his life is happy one.
THE man who gives his life for prin-
ciple has done more for his kind than he
who discovers a new metal or names a
new gas, for the great motors of the race
are moral, not intellectual, and their
force lies ready to the use of the poorest
and weakest of us ALL
THERE is nothing like courage in mis-
fortune. Next to faith in God and in
His overruling providence, a mans faith
in himself is his salvation. 1t is the Sc
cret of all power and success. 1t makes
man strong as the piIlared iron or
elastic as the springing steel.
EXERCISE, to be beneficial, must be
enjoyable. The more enjoyable it is,
the more good it will do. Even laugh
ing does one good. Thus, light cheer
full talk, with merriment and laughter,
has always been known, frJm time i'm
memorial, to be the best thing aftel a
hearty meal.
SOLITUDE is pleasant. 1t is an escape
from the rough and tumble of life-from
hard words and hard knocks; but its
pleasures are dangerous. They are too
fascinating for any but the best balanced
minds; and over-indulgence in them al
most invariably means melancholia and
madness.
MEN in great places are thrice ser
wants; servants to the sovereign or state,
servants of fame, and servants of bust
ness; so they have no freedom, neither
In their persons, nor in their actions,
nor in their time. 1t is a strange desire
to seek power over others, and to lose
power over mans self.
WE all have to learn in one way or
another, that neither men nor bows get
second chances in this world. We all
get new chances till the end of our lives.
but not second chances in the same set
of circumstances; and the great differ
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