Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WE should not so much esteem our
poverty as a misfortune, were it not that
the world treats it so much as crime.
AS to be perfectly just is an attribute
of the Divine nature, to be so to the ut
most of our ability is the glory of man.
| SOME of our weaknesses are born in
US, others are the result of education;
it is question which of the two gives
us most trouble.
THE man who is frankly and unblush-
ingly vain can hardly fail to see now
and then traces of a smile occasioned by
his open egotism.
MELANCHOLY sees the worst of things;
things as they may DC, and not as they
are. 1t looks upon beautiful face and
sees but grinning skull
1t is not the earliest blossoms which
are most permanent; those which bloom
in mid-season last the longest So of
that blossom of the heart-love.
TRUE religious instinct never. ..depriy-
ed man of one single Joy; mournful
faces and somber aspect are the con-
Ventional affectations of the weak
minded.
SUSPICION is no less an enemy to vir-
tue than to happiness. He that is al
ready corrupt is naturally suspicious,
and he that becomes suspicious will
quickly be corrupt.
THE faith that does not throw a
warmth as of summer around the SYM
pathies and charities of the heart, and
drop invigorations like showers upon
the conscience and the will, is as false
as it is unsatisfying.
| CLOSE thine ear against him that shall
open his mouth secretly against another.
If thou receive not his words, they hy
back and wound the reporter; if thou
receive them, they flee forward and
wound the receiver.
THERE is more virtue in one sunbeam
than a whole hemisphere of clouds and
gloom. Therefore. always look on the
right side of things. Cultivate what is
warm and genial-not the cold and re-
pulsive, the dark and morose
THERE are many that are wasting
their lives and destroying their old age,
not through their passions, but through
their ambition, and in the pursuit Of
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out their body by the excitement of the
brains.
MEN who live alone among their books
can scarcely ever take the Just measure
of their own minds. A little converse
tion with business or society soon clears
the Judgment, and the running stream
shakes off the mantling self f-eoneeit
dreamed in repose.
HAPPINESS is a sunbeam which may
pass through thousand bosoms with
out losing particle of its original ray;
nav, when it strikes on akindred heart,
like the converged light on mirror, it
reflects with redoubled brightness. Hap
piness is not perfected till it is shared.
SELFIsHNEss, by its own law, not on
ly moves in simple circles, but is short
lived. What men do for themselves is
soon expended, and is soon forgotten
Only that part of mans life which in
cludes other mems good, and especially
the public good, is likely to be felt long
after he himself is dead.
THE tyranny of habit is the most
crushing despotism. The chains forged
by another are shaken off with eompar-
ative ease, but those fabricated by our
selves too frequently fetter our limbs as
long as life continues. Hence 1t is OF
the utmost Importance in early life to
adopt good habits, which, in time, be-
come second nature to us.
THE medical profession disguises from
the public the fact of the prevalence of
kidney troubles because of their inabili
ty to provide their patients with sue
cessful treatment; the best and most sue
cessful physician speaks plainly. II G Nc
Cormick, NJ. D., Ph. G. of Penn Argyle,
Pa. writes: with 80 years experience
most successful kidney, liver and bladder
specific ever used in my practice; it has
cured hundreds of the worst cases for
me-" For sale by druggists.
A BETTER subject for young men to
mediate upon was never written than
the following by Swift: mo man ever
made an i'll figure who understood his
own talents, nor good one who mis-
took them" Young men do not fail In