Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-04

black spots on other people.
1t is often easier for man to complete
a round of pleasure than it is for hin
to make things square afterward.
Most men look down on their neigh
bors from such a height that if they
should fall it would break their necks.
CHCICE EXCERPTS.
AN evil propensity confessed is hall
cured. People irritate themselves by
trying to prove that they are not irrita
BILE.
MEDITATION is a mental bath; reverie
is hammock dream. The one is the
sun in placid lake; the other is the
wind swaying wheat in field.
THE hardest thing to do in the world
is to think. Weigh what you hear, de-
duct fifty per cent. of dross, and look al
the remainder with an oculist's eye.
THESE two things, contradictory a:
they seem, must go together, manly de
pendence and manly independence, man
ly reliance and manly self-reliance.
SINCERITY is to speak as we think, te
do as we pretend and profess,to perform
and make good what we promise, anG
really to be what we should seem and
appear TO be.
How easy is the thought, in certa in
moods, of the loveliest, most unselfiSt
dsvotioni How hard is the doing of the
thought in the face of a Thousand un-
lovely difficulties!
LET your thoughts be of eternity a:
well as of time. Time is river bear
ing us onward; eternity is mountain
bearing US upward. Every day is the
confiux of two eternities.
To find fault, some one may say, i:
easy, and in every mans power; but tC
point ont the proper course to be pur
sued in the present cumstances, that
is the proof of wise counselor.
We cannot overstate our debt of the
past; but the moment has the supreme
claim. The past is for us; but the sole
terms on which it can become ours are
its subordination to the present.
SINCE happiness is necessarily the su-
pfeme object of our desires, and duty the
supreme rule of our actions, there can
be no harmony in our being except our
happiness comedies with our duty.
THERE is always best way of doing
everything, if it be TO boil an egg. Man
ners are the happy ways of doing things
each one stroke of genius or of love
now repeated and hardened into usage
EACH day, each week, each month
each year, is a new chance given you
by God. A new chance, new leaf, a
new life-this is the golden, the un-
speakable gift which each new day of
fers to you.
THE world of reality has its limits; the
world of imagination is bolndless. Not
being able to en- age the one. let us con
tract the other; for it is from their diff
ference alone that the evils arise which
render us really unhappy.
Nor merely to know, but according to
his knowledge to do, is the destiny OF
man. Your action alone determines
your worth; and Carlyle says, "The end
=
though it were of the noblest."
LET your thoughts be of Others rather
than of self. Introspection is like dig
ging up flowers to see how they grow.
Unconscious work is the best work.
Look out and not in. If You perpetually
think of self, you and Dame Duty will
part company.
You must be sure of two things. You
must love your work, and not be always
looking over the edge of it, wanting
your play to begin; and the other is you
must not be ashamed of your work, and
think it would be more honorable to you
to be doing something else.
THE great foundation of civil virtue
is self-denial; and there is no one
above the necessities Of life but has
opportunities of exercising that noble
quality, and doing as much as his cir.
cumstances will bear for the ease and
convenience or other men.
THE weakest living creature, by con
.centr lting his powers on single object
can accomplish something; the strong
-est, by dispensing his over many, may
fail to accomplish anything. The drop
by continually falling, bores its passage
through the hardest rock. The hasty
torrent rushes over it with hideous up
roar, and leaves no trace behind.
THERE are things that could never
grow familiar. Daybreak is one. There
is always mystery about it. 1t is like
coming to life again after death. Yor
have been away, you don't know where
and YOU came back to the world; anC
when you find it as it is now-belongins
almost to yourself, all the other people
as good as out of tit is very strange
Be not afraid of becoming too familiar
with beautiful things.
IT is hard for some of MS to concen
trate adequately upon what may bt
termed the main pillar of our lives
There is So much to distract US, here
there and everywhere. 1t seems s
unimportant whether we devote ou
interests to this subject for half ar
hour or an hour; whether we let thi'
one opportunity slip, or whether W.
grasp it. Yet snccess depends upor
these slighted minutes and slighted OF
portunities.