Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-04-14

MEN may be just as willing to hate
you for your virtues as for your faults
but they seldom have the same opportu
mites.
ALWAYS speak the truth, but speak il
in pleasing manner. Truth is the pic
ture; the manner is the frame that dis
plays it to advantage.
THINKERS are scarce as gold; but he
whose thought embraces all his subject,
pursues it uninterruptedly, and fearless
of consequences, is diamond of enor,
nous size.
GREAT wealth in a woman tends to
keep at distance beth the proud and
the humble. leaving the unhappy live
bait to be snapped at by the hardy and
the greedy.
A GREAT man under the shadow OF
defeat is taught how precious are the
uses of adversely; and, as trees roots
are strengthened by its shadows, so all
defeats in good cause are but resting
places on the road to victory at lasi.
If we can inspire children with de-
sire of pleasing, if we can infuse the love
and sympathy which makes it delight
to see anOther's gladness, they will of
themselves seek to promote it in many
ways of which others would never think.
Noone is truly rich who has not wealth
of love, wealth of sympathy, wealth of
good will for men. No one knows what
luxury is who has not enjoyed the luxury
of doing good. No one has real happi-
ness who has not the happiness of max
ing others happy.
THE execution of good resolutions
and new purposes should be entered
upon at the earliest practicable moment,
for, if unduly deferred, such purposes
are torment and not the inspiration
they might be. Those who win their
battles in the world as well as those who
win their battles with the world, are
those who strike instantly and heavily.
A MAN desiring to enjoy the delights
and conditions unknown to single
condition, prepared to love and cherish
under all calamities and changes, would
do well, if possible, to learn little of
the early training of the woman he de-
siIes to make the partner of his joys and
the consoler of his sorrows, and to have
some knowledge of her in domestic re-
sation.
You will not be sorry for hearing be-
fore Judging, for thinking before speak
ing, for holding an angry tongue, for
stopping the ear to tale bearer. for dis
believing most of the ill-reports, for be-
ing kind to the distressed, for being pa
tient toward everybody, for doing good
to all men, for asking pardon for all
wrongs, for speaking evil of no one, for
being courteous to all.
He who can find in his own thoughts,
in his own work, in his own convictions
and his own conscience the true joys
which they are capable of yielding will
never make shipwreck of his life. He
will feel as acutely as any the pleasures
and pains which come through the in
fuence of others, but they will not be
his all-he will have another region
from which to draw deeper happiness,
a region where none can enter to hurt or
to make afraid.
THE body is afflicted by every mental
and moral action ;the mind is profoundly
influenced by bodily conditions. For a
perfect system of hygiene we mnst COM
bine the knowledge of the physician, the
schoolmaster and the divine, and must
train the body, the intellect and the
moral soul in perfect and balanced Or
der. Then, if our knowledge were ex-
act and our means of application ade-
quate. we should see the human being
in his perfect beauty, as Providence per-
haps intended him to be.
HOWEVER a man is gifted, whether
for active enterprise of thought or char
acter, there lies around him world of op-
portunity. So far behind are we socially,
morally, intellectually, that one might
be forgiven if he supposed the world
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had yet been done. Does no ambition
fire us to help the despairing, starving,
sinking people aronnd us? If a few
more years be added TO our life, would
we not strive to put something right, to
sweep out some little corner, to awaken
some soul to see and rejoice in the grow
ing light?
As the mind of man is so limited
in its ability to receive and retain,
there must be a continual selection
going on between what to know and
what to refrain from knowing The
wise man has discovered that of the
vast amount of truths and facts and
wonders and ideas with which the ami
verse is teeming, only small fraction
can by any possibility be his, and his
intelligence has no more important task
to perform than that of deciding not on.
ly what to choose, but what to refuse
Thus wherever there is wise knowl.
edge there is also wise and necessary
ignorance.