Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03

A sound discretion Is not SO mucn III
dicated by never makinga mistake as by
never repeating it.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE victory of success is half won
when one gains the habit Of work.
STINT yourself, as you think good, in
other things, but don't scruple freedom
in frightening home
WE could all be great men If we conld
be measured by the great things we In
tend to do tomorrow.
GENTLEMAN is a term which does not
apply to any station, but to the mind
and the feelings in every station.
To live for others is greater than to
live for self; a benefactor is greater than
despot; integrity is better than gold
OF genius.
No, there is no victory possible for
boy or man without humility; and mag
nanimity; and no humility or magnan-
unity possible without an ideal.
All, they are these bits of struggles in
which we have learned to fight the great
ones; perhaps these bits Of struggles,
more than the great ones, make up life
SHALLOW soil is like superficial char
acter. You meet with such persons in
life. There is nothing deep about them;
ali they do and all they have is on the
surface.
THERE is this difference between hap
piness and wisdom; he that thinks him.
self the happiest man really is SO; he
that thinks himself the wisest is gener
ally the greatest fool.
If it is cowardly for the strong TO op-
press the weak, it is no less mean and
base for the weak to impose upon the
good nature and generosity of the strong. |
There can be tyranny in both ways.
GOODNESS comes from within-from
thoughts, feelings and desires, resulting
in life and actions. Greatness is the
consequence of bold actions, great energy,
ambition, enterprise and perseverance.
THERE is nothing so delightful as the
hearing or the speaking of the truth.
For this reason there is no conversation
so agreeable as that of the man of in
tegrity, who hears without any intention
to betray, and speaks without any inten-
tion to deceive.
SOME people premeditate their steps |
in life; others shuttle along aimlessly. |
The first class usually stand erect, and
look life bravely in the face; the second
class, with hanging heads, stupidity
stumble. and then blame the world for
their awkwardness.
HAPPINESS is like mama. 1t is to be
gathered in grains and enjoyed every
day; it will not keep; it cannot be ac-
cumulated; nor need we go out of our
selves nor into remote places to gather
it, since it is rained down from heaven
at our very doors, or rather within them.
He who divides his life between hard
grinding labor and listless apathy, |
who is vital only in one part of his ma
ture and torpid in all others, or who is
intelligently advancing in one direction |
and weakly vacillating in all the rest,
will never be truly great or even a thor
oughly valuable man.
If mans opinion is in no process of
change whatsoever, it must he dead,
valueless and hurtful. Opinion is the
offspring of that which is itself born to
grow; which being imperfect must grow
or die. Faith is the root, belief the tree,
and opinion the foliage that falls and
is renewed with the seasons.
A TuoUGHTFUL> and considerate So
briefly of mind, so that one always knows |
what he is about and what he means to
do and what he means not to do, as con-
trasted with headlong, impetuous and
reckless mode of acting, is a cardinal
quality in living a successful and virtl-
Gus life. Men must think, and do so
seasonably if they would make the
journey of life wisely. Every young
man needs to learn this lesson.
THE idea which some people entertain |
of earning idleness-that is, of working |
far too hard in one narrow groove for a
series of years that they may have the
delight of working no more for the rest
of their lives-is absolutely confuted by
all experience. 1t has been tried re-
peatedly with the same result. The sud |
den change from too close and monot-
onous work to none at all is invariably |
disastrous, and many lives have been
rendered unhappy and shortened in con-
sequence.
YES, life is game; a complicated
game; a difficult game; game which |
requires wisdom, diligence, patience;
game which will try your powers; a
game in which there is not one good
quality of head or heart which will not
help you; game in which the forfeits
are terrible, of which the issues are in
infinite. at has been played for untold
ages, and every one of us is one of the |