Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08


Looking for flowers without thorns is
one of the best ways in the world OF fool
ing your time away.
Patience is the ballast of the soul, that
will keep it from rolling and tumbling
in the greatest storm.
1t may be that sometimes God wants
to show the world that you have light
by putting you in the dark.
One of the easiest things for some peo-
pie to do, is to persuade them that it l5
not their duty to do anything.
When people find out that man is
mean at home, they don't care how good
he processes to be in the church.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE good Samaritan didn't stop TO find
out what street the wounded jew lived
on, nor who his father was, before he
helped him.
THESE five-the peevish, the niggard,
the dissatisfied, the suspicious, and those
who live upon others means-are for
ever unhappy.
EVERY man has something to with
making public sentiment, and public
sentiment is the power that gives to
government its life.
OPPORTUNITY is the flower of Time;
and, as the stalk may remain when the
flower is cut off, so time may remain
with us when opportunity is gone.
THE man who does not complain
makes more friends than the man who
always has grievance. The dead mar
tyr is the only kind that is ever canon
lied
WHATEVER upholds mans self-re-
spect inclines him to self-improvement,
and to appreciate fully his good points
goes a long way in helping him to cure
his faults.
ALL the good things of this world are
no further good to US than they are of
use; and whatever we may heap up to
give to others, we enjoy only as much as
we can use.
If there is any one on this earth who
does have positive and unmistakable
q evidence about anything, it is the man
who knows something that he has learn
ed from God.
MORE than talent, more than beauty,
more than wealth, sometimes more than
wisdom, good manners are the best let
ters of introduction, and the firmest ce-
ment of friendship.
Dome things,a and not dreaming about
them, is the secret of success. Thinking
out plans will never come to anything
unless the thought be followed by de-
termined will to execute.
JEALOUSY is in some sort rational
and just; it aims at the preservation of a
good which belongs, or which we think
belongs to us; whereas envy is frenzy
that cannot bear the good of others.
THERE is a popular fallacy that, while
we can help what we do or omit doing,
we cannot help what we think. Yet
thought lies at the foundation of action,
and no structure of Just deeds can ever
be safely built unless the substratum of
just thought be sound and firm.
NEVER let US be discouraged with our
selves. 1t is not when we are conscious
of our faults that we are most wicked.
On the contrary, we are less so. We see
by brighter light; and let us remem-
Der, for consolation, that we never per
ceiye our sins until we begin to cure
them.
WE must not at our imminent peril
allow our love of beauty, of abstract wis
dom, of perfect forms of words, obscure
our sense of the worlds resistance and
violence and hardness. The ancientS,
little as we should recommend all their
ways for modern imitation, knew better
than that.
UNMIXED praise is not due to any
one. 1t leaves behind it a sense of un-
reality. We can only do justice to great
men by discriminating criticism. He.
ro worship. which paints faultless
monster, whom the world never saw, is
like modern pictures which are a blaze
of light without any shadow.
MUCH of the unwritten history of life's
grief and woe, many faded, sad and
weary lives. much of the discOrd and i'll
feeling that split families asunder, have
their sources in selfish, grasping and
f,,l rif into and moi
soning the springs of affection, which
would otherwise flow over the earth in
streams of purity and sweetness for the
refreshment and happiness of mankind.
If we lay a heavy plate perforated
here and there on the top of flower
pot, we shall see the rising plant making
steady efforts to send its shoots through
the apertures; but what pallid, weakly,
sickly things the shoots are! 1t is much
the same with a mind that is over
weighted with books or with what is
called ''exact" knowledge of any kind,
if the knowledge is impaired in a reck
less or one-sided fashion.
THE affections, however warm, will
grow cold, and the desires, however
strong, will decline, unless their corre
spending actions are performed. The
best intentions in the world, without eff
fort, will produce nothing,a and will them
selves die away. So the hand without
the heart can never continue operative.
The expression of affection where none
exists must die upon the lips. COmpul-
sion may produce momentary pressure,
but, as soon as it is removed, reaction