Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-10

deep.
An old bachelor is alway ready to tell
you how you ought to bring up your
children.
Our grand business is not to see what
lies dimly at distance, but what lies
clearly at hand.
Do not wait for extraordinary oppor-
TUNES for good actionss but make use OF
common situations.
A rich man despises those who fiatter
him too much, and hates those who do
not hatter him at all.
There are people who wouldn't lie
with the lip for anything, and yet they
live lie every day in the week.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
LOOKING too closely at a dollar doesn't
make it any bigger, but it often makes
the soul good deal smaller.
If some people could have their way,
when they pray for rain they would pick
out the ground for it to fall upon.
1T is sadly but frequently the case
that the man who hurrahs the loudest
has the least idea Of what he is hurrah-
ing about.
REMEMBER whatever warrant you
have for praying, you have the same
warrant to believe your prayers will be
answered.
A REALLY great man is known by
three subsequently, in the design,
humanity in the execution, and modera-
tion in success
BE not anxious about tomorrow. Do
to-day's work only; fight to-day's tempt
alton, and do not weaken and distract
yourself by looking forward to things
you cannot see, and could not under
stand if you saw them.
NOBLE thoughts are apt to lead to no.
bic deeds. Evil thoughts will surely
lead to evil deeds; therefore we are in
sonor bound to suppress evil thoughts
promptly and so firmly that they cannot
gain dawn within US.
No matter how irregular our features,
if lighted up by the glowing lines OF
health, they will have charm. Add to
this the beauty of expression,the shining
out of noble spirit, and we can well
spare mere beauty of outline.
BUT for money and the need of it,
there would not be half the friendship in
the world. 1t is powerful for good if
divinely used. Give it plenty of air,
and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it
up, and it cankers and breeds worms.
EXERCISE is the most important ma
tural tonic of the body. Without it
there can be no large compact muscular
frame. 1t is as essential to physical de-
velopment as air is to life, and an i'm
perative necessity in the maintenance
of beauty.
THE best things are nearest-breath
in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flow
ers at your feet, duties at your hand
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do
life's plain common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread
are the sweetest things of life.
SAY No, and mean it. The man who
tries to break away gradually from his
evil habits will surely fail, for the reason
that he begins by yielding in measure
to his enemy. All compromise with evil,
however slight, is wrong; and ones only
safety is forsaking utterly the wrong.
No one can show what is in him ex-
ceps he comes under the spur of regular
work. All the best men have been hard
workers, or have been at their best only
when they had spell of hard work and
the most deplorable waste that the world
has hint of is the lost opportunities OF
men who might have done great things
if they had been compelled.
No tie can be so close, no love so
strong as to form an excuse for telling a
secret which belongs to a third party;
and it is a false sentiment and mean
jealousy that would require it at the
hands of friend or lover, husband or wife.
Every one is at liberty to decline to re-
ceiye such confidence if he please; but,
having received it, he has no right to
impart it.
A WISE man gets happiness from what
he is rather than from what he has.
What he is remains; what he has, who
will insure that? Plutarch says that
Alexander caused to be painted on ia
Bile sword within the compass of a
wheel, to show that what he had gotten
by the sword was wheeled about by fate
or fortune Therefore with all your get
tings get wisdom. Seek to be rather
than to haze. Therein lies happiness.
KNOWLEDGE always has value of its
own, but it may lie latent and undevel-
ed like fuel that has never been lgnited.
1t is the evolution of power, the con-
stant exercise of faculties at which we
should aim It is the busy hands and
busy brain, both working, not for them
selves, but for results to the world, which
are deserving of honor; and whatever
contributes to their ability is the most
potent factor in all culture. We see this
plainly in all occupations.
THE man who leans contentedly and
perpetually upon some one else, wheth
er it be for his livelihood, or sympathy,
or help of any kind, IS not being really
aided, but only still further enfeebled
He drains another not merely to no pur
pose, but to the injury of both. But if
on the other hand, he receives the help
whatever it be, with thankful gratitude
and uses it as stepping stone 10 better
thir rgs-if he regard it as temporary
loan, which he in his turn may repay tc
some cne weaker than himself-if he bt
inspired by it to greater efforts, ant