Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-22
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WEEDS grow sometimes very much
like flowers, and you can't tell the diff
ference between true and false merely
by the shape.
If moderate drinking is allowable and
respectable, what's the reason that mod
crate stealing, or any other mind of quail
flied meanness isn't commendable?
THERE are some great troubles that
only time can heal. and perhaps some
that can never be healed at all; but all
can be helped by that great panacea,
work.
AN Oriental proverb says: "This
world resembles very much an old book,
the first and the concluding pages OF
which have been lost. We do not know
the beginning or the end of this world. u
He that will put eternity and the
world before him, and who will dare to
look steadfastly at both of them, will
find that the more often he contemplates
them, the former will grow greater, and
the latter less.
WHEN gratitude o'erflows the swell
ing heart, and breathes in free an un-
corrupted praise for benefits received,
ropitious Heaven takes such acknowl-
igement as fragrant incense, and
.oubles all its blessings.
WE have all our playthings. Happy
l-c they who are cOntented with those
hey can obtain; those hours are spent
n the wiSest manner that can easiest
hade tie ills of life, and are the least
'roductive of ill consequences.
THE mind of the thinker and the stu
dent is driven to admit, though it be
awestruck by apparent injustice, that
this inequality is the work of Cod
Make all men equal to-day, and God has
so created them that they shall all be un-
equal tomorrow.
TIE sun is hundred million miles
away, and the water roses that open to
the light of day are in the pool; the
moon, friend of the night blooming
lotus, is two hundred thousand miles
distant. Friendship knows no separa-
tion that divides it in space.
CONSCIENCE is doubtless sufficient to
conduct the coolest character into the
road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to con-
science what honor is to duty; there is
in us a superhuity of soul, which it is
sweet to consecrete to the beautiful
when the good has been accomplished
PAIN in this world is an undoubted
reality. 1t visits all, and, though il
bears greater anguish to some than tC
others, all feel its torturing touch. Pain
meets man as he enters the world, fol
lows him through life, and leaves him
not until his heart grows still in death
It attends us as dark angel wherever
we go, through all seasons of the year
and through every period of our life.
IT is not known where he that invent
ed the plow was born, nor where he died
yet he has effected more for the happi
ness of the world than the whole race OF
he. oes and of conquerors who have
drenched it with tears and fertiliZed if
with blood, and whose birth, parentage
and education have been handed dOwI
to us with precision precisely proper
tionate to the mischief they have done
A SENSE of ones own deficiencies is g
salutary thing, or the reverse, according
to the use that is made of it. Ii it spur!
to more jealous effort, if it makes us res
olute in our purpose of living worthiel
life than we have hitherto spent, its ben
eft is great; but if it arouses no more
healthful frame of mind than feeling
of regret that we have accomplished 81
little, and in an indolent and despairine
conclusion that there is not much use il
trying to do anything more, then it il
merely an additional hindrance to a lif'
already marred by failure.
WE are right in deploring the dis
tance that exists between our life as
is and as we know it ought to be; bu
we should have still greater cause 70
sorrow did We find our conceptions o
purity, love, truth and goodness fadin:
from our minds. Those who simpl,
hold these ideals in an indolent and self
indulgent way will soon lose them alto
gether. Their continuance depends upoI
the use that is made of them. They
are not simply to be admired and cher
ished, they are to be obeyed. If we d.
not render them this obedience the,
will fit from us, and leave us indeed.
THAT eloquent devil, Belial, has, W
know special quality of making tn
worse appear the better reason; and
some men he tells the fattering tai
that they are very wise, and that the.
know better than the old fogies VIII
stick to the straight path. When tn
pilgrim is going on the right, and oftel
weary, painful way, dozen Mr.. Plausi
bles run up to him, and tell him that h
has only to cross over that stile, or T
nile Il il 81 ont cut, and he will get
once to the end of the journey. Som
of these plausibles believe it themselves
and try the short, pleasant paths. Som
possibly do succeed by trick. and tina
is one of the trials of the weak hearte
ones; and thus they are too often led t
a believe that to do the trick is sOun
. policy