Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-03
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

than we expect, and always better than
we deserve.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
To most men, experience is like the
stern-light of ship, which illuminates
only the track it has passed.
IT is easier to find score of men wise
enough to discover the truth than to find
one intrepid enough to stand up for it
in the face of opposition.
TENNYsON compares men to trees, and
perhaps he is right about some men, who
are all limbs, whose boughs are awk-
ward, and whose general reputation is
somewhat shady.
WHITFIELD once said to brother
who had made a very long prayer
"Brother, you prayed me into a good
frame, and you prayed me out of it
again"
MONEY you earn yourself is much
brighter than any you get out of dead
mems bags. A scant breakfast in the
morning of life whets the appetite for a
feast later in the day.
MISERY is so little appertainin to our
nature, and happiness so much so, that
we in the same degree of illusion only
lament over that which has panied us,
but leave unnotieed that which has re-
joiced us.
BECAUSE people are rich they are not
of necessity ogres. Because they are
born gentlemen and ladies of good de-
gree, are in easy circumstances, and
have generous education, it does not
follow that they are heartless and will
turn their backs on friend.
ARIsTHENEs wondered at mankind,
that in buying an earthen dish they
were careful to sound it, lest it had a
crack; yet so careless in choosing friends
as to take them flawed with vice. How
few persons at this day would discover
and apply so striking an analogy.
A HUMAN soul without education is
like marble in quarry, which shows
nothing of its inherent beauties until
the skill of the polisher fetches out the
colors, makes the surface shine, and dis
covers every ornamerted cloud, spot
and vein that runs through the body
of it.
In the conduct of life, habits count for
rooro thop paovipac haaauca habit iS
living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct.
To reform ones maxims is nothing; it is
but to change the title of book. To
learn new habits is everything, for it is
TO reach the substance of life. Life is
but tissue of habits.
o VANITY, how little is thy force &C
knowledged or thy operations discerned!
How wantonly dost thou deceive man
kind under different DISCUSSES! Some
times thou dost wear the face of pity;
sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast
the assurance to put on those glorious
ornaments which belong only to heroic
virtue.
IDLENEss is the badge of gentry, the
bane of body and mind, the nurse of
naughtiness, the step-mother of disci-
pline.the chief author of all mischief, ,one
of the seven deadly sins, the cushion
upon which the devil chiefly reposeS,
and great cause not only of melan-
choly but of many other diseases; for
the mind is naturally active, and if it be
not occupied about some honest bust
ness, it rushes into mischief or sinks in
to melancholy.
How much it would conduce to our
happiness to be select in our books and
in our friends; to choose each more for
their good sense than their knowledge;
more for their being Christians than
philosophers; to be contented with
small but certain income; to have no
master and few servants; to preserve
our health by exercise instead of medi-
cine; to adhere to our religious duties;
to allow the pleasures of life to pass by
us without murmur, and to wait with
the confidence of pious hope for the
the eternal future.
THE human mind feels restless and
rance. 1t longs for the repose of con-
viction; and to gain this repose it will
often rather precipitate its conclusions
than wait for the tardy lights of observa-
tion and experiment. There is such a
thing, too, as the love of simplicity and
system-a prejudice of the understand
ing which disposes it to include all the
phenomena of nature under few sweep
ing generalities- s-an Incidence which
loves to repose on the beauties of the
theory rather than encounter the ia
tigueing detail of its evidences.
FORECAST, which is prudence in a
particular shape, is valuable quality,
and one in which some young persons
ARE lamentably deficient. Those who
possess it can perform twice the work,
with half the hustle and fatigue, just as a
good packer will do up the same parcel
of goods in half the compass. He has a
notion of forming his layers into square
rows and regular pile, and filing up ev-
cry little chink. The difference is per
petually seen in household affairs; per
haps in affairs so small that it would
seem impossible that they should ma
terially influence the peace and com
fort of the family; but, on examination
want of forecast in small things will be
found the sole cause in many families
of perpetual alteration and confusion.