Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-15

have an opportunity, you will generally
be very busy.
There are good many different ways
in which some men manage to brag on
themselves.
Judas was not the last man who pro-
fessed sympathy for the poor to hide his
own meanness.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are
those which never come.
Heroism needs no toga. Great or
small, it consists in doing ones duty at
the cost of personal sacrifice.
If some people would be little more
careful where they step, those who fol-
low them wouldn't stumble so much.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WE always live prospectively, never
retrospectively, and there is no abiding
moment.
THE man who undertakes TO get rich
at the expense of his conscience will find
that he can't do it.
THIS is only sure, that there is moth
ing sure; and nothing more miserable,
and yet more arrogant, than man.
No sound ever went to the heart whose
arrow was not feathered by sadness.
True sentiment is twin with melancholy,
though not with gloom.
PosTERITY preserves only what will
pack in small compass. Jewels are
handed down from age to age; less port
able values disappear
THERE is nothing which this age, from
whatever standpoint we view it, needs
more, physically, intellectually, and NOR
ally, than thorough ventilation.
A SATIRE should expose nothing but
what is corrigible, and should make a
due discrimination between those that
are and those that are not the proper
objects of it.
IMAGINATION, whatever may be said
to the contrary, will always hold a place
in history, as truth does in romance.
Has not romance been penned with his
tory in view?
THE contemporary mind may in rare
cases be taken by storm, but pOsterity
never. The tribunal of the present is
accessible to influence; that of the fu
ture is corrupt.
LOVE may be celestial fire before it |
enters into the systems of mortals. 1t
will then take the character of its place
of abode, and we have to took not so
much for the pure thing as for the pas
sion.
THE great inventor is one who has
walked forth upon the industrial world,
not from universities, but from novels
not as clad in silks and decked in hon.
ors, but as clad in fustian and grimed
with SCOT and oil.
JOYS have three stages Hoping, Hav
ing and Had. The hands of Hope are
empty, and the heart of Having is sad.
For the Joy we take in the taking dies,
and the Joy we had is its ghost And
WHICH Is D0JJcI. IuC JOl vi 1IiO
Joy we have clasped and lost?
GOD, who is liberal in all his other
gifts and favors, is sparing in the distIi-
button of time, never allowing us to
have two moments at command. He
gives but the second as he takes away
the first, and leaves us in absolute un
certaisty whether the third shall ever be
ours or not.
BRAVE old world she is, after all; and
right well made; and looks right well
to-day in her go-to- meeting clothes; and
plenty of room and chance in her for a
brave man to earn his bread, if he will
but go right on about his business, in
stead of peaking and pining over what
people think of him.
OUR Affections are like weights, and
have tendency to bow us to the dust;
but there is way of arranging weights
by means of wheels and pulleys, so that
they will even lift US up. Grace, by IFS
matchless art, has often turned the
heaviest of our trials into occasions for
heavenly joy. "We glory in trbulations
Also"
THE first external revelation of dry
rot in men is a tendency to lurk and
lounge; to be at street corners without
intelligent reason; to be going anywhere
when met; to be about many places
rather than any; to do nothing tangible,
but to have an intention of doing
number of tangible duties tomorrow or
the day after.
THERE is no just reason why the man
of intellect and high requirements
should not surround himself with the
Iuxuries of life, if he has taste for
them and can crafty it consistently with
his duty TO Others But if he worships
himself, and makes his appetites his gods,
he dishonors the divine image in which
he was formed.
TIE chief thing to be done for those
who are in trouble is to enable them to
stand upon their own feet, to be brave
upon their feet, to be brave and strong,
to see the sun shining through the
clouds, and thus to receive the educa-
ton which such experiences are able to
give. True friendship in calamity will
spare no pains and leave no means un-
tried to further these results.
SOCIAL circles of every kind are i'm
proved and elevated by the cordial touch
of opposites. The rich and the poor
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