Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-22

THERE are three classes of readers
those who enjoy without judgment, those
who Judge without enjoyment, and those
who judge while they enjoy and enjoy
while they judge.
MANKIND will never be, in an eminent
man possesses that portion of distinc-
tion, and no more, to which he is enti-
tied by his personal merits.
IT is great mistake to imagine that
success without effort will ever make a
man or a woman happy. What we cease
to strive for ceases to be success, and
gradually becomes more and more
worthless.
l WOULD rather dwell in the dim fog
of superstition than in an air raritied to
nothing by the air pump of unbelief
in which the painting breast ex-
pires, vainly and cOnvulsively gasping
for breath.
IT is commonly dangerous thing for
a man to have more sense than his
neighbors. Socrates paid for his supe-
riority with his life; and if Aristotle
saved his skin, it was by taking to his
heels in time.
HOWEVER paradoxical it may appear,
we are more indebted to a mans discOn-
tent than to ais nobler qualities for the
comforts we enjoy; since, had he re-
,,aoinnI cnniatu vrOnlH haUp
made little advance.
HEAT gotten by degrees, with motion
and exercise, is more natural and stays
longer by one than what is gotten all at
once by coming to the fire; so wealth
acquired by industry proves commonly
more lasting than that which descends
by our ancestors.
NEVER condemn your neighbor un-
heard; every story has two ways of be-
ing told, and justice requires that you
should hear the defence as well as the
accusation; and remember that the ma
lignity of enemies may place you in a
similar position.
THE test of energy is continuous work,
not spasmodic. There must always be
some progress, however slight. To this
end the requisites are system and thor
oughness. System determines the amount
of work that can be got through, thor
oughness the quality of it.
IT is an instructive tribute to the value
of self-control that we usually exercise
it most when we are with those whom
we respect most, and when we are most
earnestly engaged in some pursuit. Yet
it is rather the habit of continued self
government than the spasmodic effort to
exert it that is the source of that innate
power over men and things that we all
so greatly desire.
To do well is to be well. Persevere
in the thought, 81 shall be better to NOR
row." and it will help you to become so.
1t has been said that no man ever died
without his own consent. Never get
your own consent to dying. Resolve to
live; resolve to be well. You yourself
must make the effort; you must work
out your own salvation.
THINKING leads men to knowledge;
he may see, and hear and read, and learn
whatever he please, and as much as he
please; he will never know any of it eX-
cept that which he has thought over, that
which by thinking he has made the prop
erty of his mind. Is it then saying too
much, that by man thinking only be-
comes truly man? Take away thought
from mans life, and what remains?
LIFE-DRIFT is like the drift of the sea;
you think you have just struck out
few arms length from the shore; you
think it is close behind you there, and
that you can turn back to its safety and
rest at any minute; you wouldn't else
have cast yourself into the waves. But
you are floating, floating; and the tide is
setting out; it is carrying you away
from reach; your safe, sweet shore is
lost; you shall never return to it.