Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-10
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
A TRUE and successful life is one the
touch of which upon others is quicken
ing, wholesome, purifying, and beneh-
cent.
MANY a small man never ceases talk
ing about small sacrifices he makes; but
he is great man who can sacrifice ev-
erything and say nothing.
ALL the good things of this world are
of no further good to US than as they
are of use; and whatever we may heap
up to give others, we enjoy only as much
as we can use.
Most people call fretting a minor
fault-a foible not a vice. But there is
no vice, except it be drunkenness, which
Can SO utterly destroy the peace and hap
piness of home.
He who trusts the security of chance
takes more pains to effect the safety
which results from labor. To find what
you seek in the road of life, the best pro-
verb of all is that which says, Leave no
stone unturned."
CONSOLE yourself, dear man and broth
er; whatever you may be sure of, be sure
at least of this, that you are dreadfully
like other people. Human nature has
much greater genius for sameness
than for originality.
No peace was ever won from fate by
subterfuge- or argument; no peace is ev-
er in store for any of us but that which
We shall win by victory over sin or shame
victory over the sin which oppresses
as well as over that which corrupts.
THE men of sense, the idols of the
shallow, are very inferior to the men of
passions. 1t is the strong passions
which, rescuing US from sloth, impart to
us that continuous and earnest attention
necessary to great intellectual efforts.
IF we are prey to ill-health, life is
poisononed at its source. Yet it would be
an exaggeration to say that there is no
happiness without health, for happiness
is hardy growth; but it is very much
cramped for room when pain and weak
ness are present.
NOTHING in this world is so good as
usefulness. 1t binds your fellow Great
ures to you, and you to them; it tends
to the improvement of your own charac-
ter; and it gives you real importance
IN society. much beyond what any arti-
fetal station can bestow.
THE ancients knew more than we;
but it is in the use that we make of our
knowledge that we find our hope of its
immortality and defy time, in the rule
that no man has right to know any
thing and not make it do service for his
fellow men, which is the rule of modern
civilization.
THE wisest and soundest preachers
and writers have taught over and over
again that the best panacea for heart
ache and encouragement is to visit some
one far worse than yourself, and, con-
trasting your condition with a worse
one, learn a lesson of patience and
thankfulness.
MEN and women make their own
beauty or ugliness. Bulwer speaks in
one of his novels of man who "was ug
lier than he had any business to be-"
and, if we could but read it, every hu
man being carries his life in his face,
and is good-looking or the reverse, as
that life has been good or evil.
SOME people think that justice applies
exclusively or almost exclusively to mon
ey transactions and dealings in business.
But that is very restricted and imper-
feet view of what constitutes justice. 1t
lies quite as much in the habit and man
ner and speech as in the making and full
tillment of contracts.
CHARITY is first mortgage on every
human beings possessions. Opportuni-
ties are very sensitive things; if you
slight them on their first visit, you sell
dom see them again. The more virtu-
GUS man is, the more virtue does he
see in others. He who loves to read
and knows how to reflect has laid by a
perpetual feast for his old age.
If gratitude, when extended toward
another, naturally produces very pleas
ing sensation in the mind of grateful
man, it exalts the soul into rapture when
it is employed on this great object of
gratitude to the beneficent Being who
has given us everything we already pos
sess, and from whom we expect every
thing we yet hope for.
A PERSIAN proverb says, "Do the little
things now; so shall the big things come
to thee by -and-b by asking to be DONE"
Often we lose the opportunity of doing
little things and little acts of kindness
because we are waiting for the opportu-
mites to great or grand things; or, while
wishing to do what So-and-so does we
forget to do what really lies in our pow
er to do.
HAVING an easy time of it is the
hardest life a man can live. Hardship
and struggle are essential to that devel-
opment Of character that alone makes
life worth living or that can command
admirat ion and regard from others
King Alfred the Great said wisely, mo
wise man should desire a soft life, if he
careth for any worship here from the
world or for eternal life after this life is