Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-07-16

4udITclIIlS dDOuI.
THERE are almost as MANY kinds OF
love as there are faculties of the human
brain; but self-love dominates and over
shadows all others.
LIBERTY of speech is good, liberty OF
action better, but liberty of thought best
of all; for the worst of all shackles are
those riveted into the soul.
IT is the lot of man to suffer; it is also
his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sor-
row share our being, as darkness and
light divide the course of time.
You will find the mere resolve not to
be useless, and the honest desire to help
other people, will, in the quickest and
most delicate ways, improve yourself.
THE man who can vary his pursuits,
and has time for everything him
self, for his wife, for his children, for
his friends-alOne understands what it
is to live.
MENTAL worry or disquiet, arising
from any cause, is the strongest agent
in "ageing' men or women. 1t is an in
cessant source of exhaustion to the vi
tai forces.
BENEvoLENCE is always a virtuous
principle; its operations always secure
to others their natural rights, and it lib
orally superadds more than they are ac-
customed to claim.
THINK not morality is ambulatory;
that vices in one age are not vices in an
other; or that virtues which are under
the everlasting seal of right reason may
be stamped by opinion.
LIFE is too short to be wasted in pet
ty worries, frettings, hatreds and vexa-
tlons. Let us Danish all these, and think
on whatsoever things are pure and love-
ly and gentle and of good report.
MONEY to a man is like water to a
plant, only useful as long as it promotes
ana facilitates growth; like water in the |
fountain or water in the tank, keep it !
flowing, and it blesses; keepit stagnant, |
and it Injuries.
ABILITY is often reinforced by neces-
sity. He that will not suffer himself to
be discouraged by fancied impossibili- |
ties may sometimes find his abilities in
vigorated by the necessity of exerting
them at short intervals, as the force of
current is increased by the contraction
of its channel
YOUNG men of ambition, intelligence
and energy, who choose well their work,
are pretty certain to succeed in it if they
persistenly stick to it. Failure comes
oftenest to those who lack earnest con-
tinued endeayor, and only less frequent
ly to those who change from one pur-
suit to another, and who, being Jack of
all trades, are master of none, and sue
ceed in none.
A LIBERAL politician is a man who
looks to the future and not to the past;
ihe looks for progress; he desires to see
the whole nation raised; he desires to
go on from better things to better things,
and he is not afraid of new things; he
holds that every institution must be
tried by its worth and its value to the
nation; he holds above all things that
there should be equality before the law
for every institution, for every society,
for every individual citizen.
The man who has not seen much of !
the world may have looked deeper into
the human heart than the So called man
of the world. The world is not literally
a stage; nor are all its men and women a.,
merely players. Whoever studies life in ,
Christian spirit, believing in the exist /,
of |
magnanimity, will be sure to find them
in excess over their opposites, and to
form trner estimate of humanity than t
that graduate of bad social school, the |
mere man of the world. q
1t is not true that the world hates pi- t
ETY.. The modest and unobtrusive piety, I
which fills the heart with all human
charities and makes a man gentle to :
others and severe to himself is an object !
of universal love and veneratiOn. But /
mankind hates the lust of power when {
it is yelled under the garb of piety; they q
hate canting and hypocrisy; they hate 9
advertisers and quacks in piety; they !
love to tear folly and impudence from J.
the altar which should be sanctuary
only for the wretched and good.
How few there are who estimate /
Alright the power of kindly words and
deeds; and yet what mortal being has U
not at some time or other felt their ben
eft and sweetness? How many a world
worn and hardened heart has been
softened into penitence and tenderness l
by their holy influenced How many a G
weary lOt has been chaared and hriuht q
ened by their gentle sunshinel What 2
music there is in kindly uttered ex- e
preston of SYMPATHY radiance in v