Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-08-06

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inexhaustible.
ALL honors should be given to those
who bear failures bravely and rise up
from them with undaunted energy for
fresh endeavOrs.
We see flowers of good blooming in
foul places, as, in the most lofty and
splendid fortunes, flaws of vice, and
meanness, and stains of evil.
WE sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav-
ing when the sun went down, is weav
ing when it comes up tomorrow.
THERE is little pleasure in the world
that is true and sincere besides the pleas
ure of doing our duty and doing good. |
am sure no other is comparable to this.
He that is proud of the rustling of his
silks, like madman, laughs at the rat
tling of his fetters; for indeed clothes
ought to be our remembranceS of lost
innocency.
1T is wise-nay, often absolutely need
ful-to have something for the mind to
feed upon, something to look forward to
and live for, besides the round of daily
labor for the counting of profit and loss.
INEXHAUsTIBLE good nature is one
of the most precious gifts of Heaven,
spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought, and keeping the mind
smooth and equable in the toughest
weather.
A REPUBLIC is the government of the
spirit; a republic depends on the self
control of each member; you cannot
make a republic out of muscles and
prairies and Rocky Mountains; republics
are made of the spirit.
AN obtuse and stOlid adherence to
things as they are should never be dig
nified by the name of loyalty. If no one
changed his ideas or methods, if no one
lifted his thoughts or his conduct from
alower to higher plane, the world would
stand still, and stagnation would ensue.
To die and know that when men think
of you no inspiration will arise, but on
ly the memory of harshnesS, or hatred,
or falsehood, or pitilessness- makes
death terrible. Be otherwise. Let your
works follow you with inspiring power.
Speak from the grave to comfort, kin
die, redeem.
THE heart and the hand can never be
separated in any just estimate of char
acter, nor can we decide which of them
is the more valuable, because either one
alone would be comparatively valueless,
or rather impossible. Each needs the
other, not only to perfect the character,
but for its own continued existence.
1T used to be said that he who made
blade of grass grow where none grew
before, was a benefactor to his kind. In
the near future it will be said, in civil
lied countries, that he who takes away
a single anxiety from the mind of over
burdened man is a friend to the race. 1t
is wonderful what brave men can do and
endure if they have intermediate periods
of complete rest and quiet.
A PROUD, irritable, diScontented, and
quarrelsome person can never be happy.
phere around himself, and must forever
move in the region of storms. He has
employed sure means to embitter life,
whatever may be his external circum-
stances. He has been the architect of
his temper, and misery must be the re-
suit.
Too many children never accomplish
anything because they fear both their
parents and their teachers; too many
never succeed because they are made to
feel they never can. Many child who
is full of animation and life and fun and
happiness is made to hate his school and
school books because his teacher does
not take the time and trouble to study
his disposition, and thus learn how to
govern him.
MANY people never learn the full
meaning of gratitude. They imagine
that its chief office is to make, if posi-
BILE, some corresponding return. If they
would remember that the benefit con-
ferred consists much more in the feeling
of kindness, good will, or sympathy
which prompts it than in anything actu-
ally given or done, they would have a
different view of the sort of gratitude
that ought to follow.
IT is ungenerous to withhold an ex-
preston of sympathy for those who have
failed in the accomplishment of great
undertakings in which they have en-
barked all their pecuniary, physical and
intellectual resources. AS a general rule,
people are hardly considerate enough to-
ward the unsuccessful. There is too
great disposition to forget their pluck
and perseverance, and sneer at their
trustfulness. We ought to bear in mind
that it is this sublime audacity of faith
to which we are indebted for the mar
yellous achievements of our age