Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-12-08
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
If prudence of reserve and decorum
sometimes dictates silence, at others
prudence of higher order may justify
speaking.
MAN may content himself with the
applause of the world. and the homage
paid to his intellect; but woman's heart
has holier idols.
Nor only is Fortune herself blind, but
she generally causes those persons to be
blind whose interests she has more par
ticularly taken in hand.
IF we hope for things of which we
have not thoroughly considered the val
ue, our disappointment will be greater
than our pleasure in the fruition of them
IT is duty to think Of and for 9th
ers, in small things as well as in great,
to study their feelings, to cultivate sym
pathy, forbearance, goodwill and ten
derness.
For work to be the promoter of long
and valuable life, we must know how
to do it and within what limits. Like
everything else, we must use with
out abusing it.
The passions which cause man to
abandon the nobler sentiments of the
heart are like the ak and the scythe,
which cut down the beautiful vegetation
of the mo IItain.
TRUTH is the source of every good to
glds and men. He who expects to be
blessed and fortunate in this world
should be partaker of it from the earli-
est moment of his life.
SELF-DENIAL does not belong to re-
ligion as characteristic of it; it belongs
to human life; the lower nature must al
ways be denied when you are trying to
rise to higher sphere.
OPPORTUNITY is in respect to time,
in some sense, as time is in respect to
eternity-it is the small moment, the
exact point, the critical minute, on which
every good work depends.
To meet with success something more
than a small effort, or a series of small
efforts, is necessary. 1t is not by short
ftful Jerks but by long vigorous pulls
that boat is forced against the current.
ABOVE all things avoid laZiness.-
There is plenty to do in this world for
every pair of hands placed OF it, and
we must so work that the world will be
richer because of our having lived in it.
IF diamonds were always under our
feet, we should soon cease picking them
up; and if the prizes of life were to be
had for the asking, the time would soon
come when they would be no longer ask
ed for.
THE successful man, as rule, is the
one who knows the trick of doing the
right thing at the right time; and the
trick is not one which comes from in
spiration, but from trained habits and
thought.
THERE is nothing so elastic as the hui
man mind. Like imprisoned steam, the
more it is pressed the more it rises to
resist the pressure. The more we are
obliged to do, the more we are able to
accomplish.
IF we stand in the openings of the
present moment. with all the length and
breadth of our faculties unseltishly ad
iusted to what it reveals, we are in the
best condition to receive what God is al
ways ready to communicate.
INDEPENDENCE is essential to respect:
the man who is another mans echo is
his satellite and lackey, but can hardly
be called his friend, for he is incapable
of one of the prime functions of friend
ship-the giving of counsel.
NONE of us stamp our impress on the
world half so successfully as our friends
do it for us. The reason perhaps is that
given by Bacon, that "all those things
are graceful in friends mouth which
are blushing in a mans own"
TO-DAY's privileges cannot be enjoyed
nor to-day's duties discharged to-mor
row. Tomorrow" may never come.
If it does come, it will bring its own
privileges and privileges made
less and duties made greater by to-day's
neglect.
INDIVIDUALS often wonder why they
are not liked by their acquaintances;
why they are sighted by their neigh
bors. Ten to one it is because they are
so selfishly engrossed in their real or i'm
iginary trials that they weary others
with their presence.
APATHY and indifference are perhaps
the very worst foes which any good en-
terprise can have to contend with. Active
opposition may be met on its own
ground, and is at least definite force to
be counted upon and resisted; but ap
athy is dead weight, crushing whatev-
er of hope and energy exists.
THE habit of superficial thinking is
one which we should avoid as much as
possible. 1t is far oftener the result of
mental incidence than of pressing busi-
ness. 1t is better to think deeply on a
few subjects than to skim over thous-
and; and, if we once form the habit of
doing so, we shall soon find it satisfac-
tory and pleasurable-