Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-08-18

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man where he can't respect himself.
A man who will get into hot water
must expect to get scalded sometimes.
People who are given to laying up
grudges seldom accumulate much else.
About the poorest occupation you can
find is to sit down and admire yourself.
1t is good thing to know right princi-
pies, but it is better one to love them
As turning the logs will make a dull
fire burn so change of studies dull brain
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE big head is one of the hardest
things in this world to cure men OF
completely.
DID you ever know anybody to sue
ceed in anything without making an eff
fort to do it?
THE man who sits down on the road
to success and waits for free ride is
sure to be left.
NOTHING will dry up the soul any
quicker than to look at everything from
a money standpoint.
To scatter praise or blame without re-
gard to Justice is to destroy the distinc-
tion of good and evil.
1T is so much easier for us to think we
are growing in grace than it is for our
neighbors to think SO.
DIAMONDS are only found in the dark
ness of the earth; and truths are only
found in the depths of thought.
THERE is no better opportunity in life
to show the quality of your religion than
when you have an enemy in your power.
BLESSED is he who has found his work.
let him ask no other blesSedneSS. lie
has his work in life purpose. Labor
is life.
ALL merit ceases the moment we per
form an act for the sake of the conse-
quences. Truly in this respect we "have
our reward"
WRITE your name with kindness, love,
and mercy on the hearts of the people
you meet year by year, and you will not
be forgotten.
IT is not pleasant to hear misanthropy
from young lips, and to find eyes that
are scarce twenty years old already look
ing out with distrust on the world.
How much trouble he avoids who
does not look to see what his neighbor
saws or does or thinks, but only what he
does himself, that it may be Just and
true.
How easy is the thought, in certain
moods, of the loyeliest, most unseltish
devotion; how hard is the doing OF the
thought, in the face of a thousand un-
lovely difficulties.
THAT man only has learned to live
rightly who takes with smile the
worlds praise and blame,and with steaoy
heart and hand goes straight on with
the Work he has In nanu.
WE cannot have everything in this
world. If we have health, talent, and
riches, we must have the peculiar temp
tations which accompany them. God
always knows what is best for us; we
what is best for ourselves seldom.
CHILDREN have their reticences, even
toward those they love. They are often
silent on what they most feel-perhaps
from confused thwarted sense that their
limited vocabulary cannot tell all the
emotions with which their little hearts
are bursting.
KIND words produce their own image
in mems souls, and beautiful image il
is. They soothe and quiet and comfort
the hearer. They shame him out of his
sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have
not vet begun TO use kind words in such
abundance as they ought to be used.
MORAL beauty comprises two distinct
elements, equally bnt diversely beautl
ful-iustice and charity, respect ano
love of men. He who expresses in hi:
conduct justice and charity yaccomplishe'
the most beautiful of all works. The
good man is. in his way, the greatest Of
all artists.
IN the struggle of life the hero ant
the coward, the conqueror and con
quered, need sympathy equally. Otter
the mind which upholds Cthers needs it
self to be upheld; the honest heart which
seems so bold and true is fainting from
secret sorrow, dying from some httl'
wound which sympathy could stanch
the pain of which it could alleviate.
WHEN | behold, says modern writer
a fashionable table set out, l fancy tha
| see gouts and dropsies, fevers ant
1ethargies, with other innumerable dis
tempers, lying in ambuscade among th'
dishes. Nature delights in the mos
plain land simple diet. Every anima
but man keeps to one dish. Herbs ar
the food of this species. fish OF that
and flesh of third. Man falls upol
everything that comes in his way; no
the smallest fruit or excrescence of tn
earth, scarcely berry or a mushroom
can escape him.
How easy it is to be neat-to b
cleanl How easy it is to arrange tn
rooms with the most graceful propriety
How easy it is to invest our house
with the truest elegance! Elegance re
sides not with the upholsterer or tn
draper; it is not put up with the hang
ings and curtains; it is not in the mosa
les, the carpetings, the rosewood, tn
mahogany, the candelabra, or the MAJ
ble ornaments. 1t exists in the spirl
presiding over the apartments of tn
household; where it does not exist
may be cultivated.