Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-12-29
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
VIOLENT fires soon burn out them
selves; small showers last long, but sud
den storms are short; with eager feed
ing, food doth choke the feeder
A MAN need to care for no more
knowledge than to know himself; no
more pleasure than to overcome him
self; no more riches than to enjoy him
self.
Books give the same turn to our
thoughts that company does to our con-
versation, without loading our memo
ries OF making US even sensible Of the
change
ALL the possible charities of life
ought to be cultivated; and where we
can neither be brethren nor friends, let
us be kind neighbors and pleasant ac-
Iuaintances.
If we command our wealth we shall
5e rich and free; if our wealth command
us, we are poor indeed. We are bought
by the enemy with the treasure in our
own Golfers.
No villainy or f1agitious action was
ever yet committed but, upon due in
lniry into the cause of it, it will be
found that a lie was first or last the
principal engine to it.
THERE is something in meanness
which excites species of resentment
that never subsidies, and some hing i'll
cruelty which stirs up the heart to the
ligheSt agony of human hatred.
You think it is for want of Judgment
hat he changes his opinion. Do you
5h:nk it proof that your scales art
ad. because they vibrate with every
additional weight that is added to either
,idr.
RELIGION prescribes to every misera
ole man the means of bettering his con-
lition; nav, it shows him that tn bear
ing of his affections as he ought to do.
will naturally end in the removal of
them.
IT is a certain sign of an ill-heart to
5e inclined to defamation. They who
ire harmless and innocent can have no
qualification that way: but it ever arises
from a neglect of what is laudable in a
mans self.
LIFE is mission. Every other def
lition of life is false, and leads all who
lccept it astray. Religion, science, phil
osophy, though still at variance upon
many points, all agree in this-that ev-
cry existence is an aim.
WHEN Socrates passed through shops
If toys and ornaments he cried out.
How many things are here which do
not needw And the same expression
may every man make who surveys the
common accommodations of life.
BLINDED as they are to their true
character by self love. every m: his
own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared,
t lerefore. to welcome the flattereI from
the outside, who only comes confirming
the verdict of the f1atterer within.
A HARMLESS hilarity and buoypant
cheerfulness are not infrequent con-
comitants of genius; and we are never
more deceived than when we mistake
gravity for greatness. solemnity for
science, and pomposity for erudition.
A COUNTRYMAN is as warm in fuStlan
as king in velvet; and truth is as
comfortable in homely language as in
fine speech. As to the way of dishing
up the meat, hungry men leave that to
the cook; only let the meat be sweet and
substantial.
A MAN who knows the world will not
only make the most of everything he
does know, but of many things he does
not know, and will gain more credit by
his adroit mode of hiding his Ignorance
than the pendant by his awkward at
tempt to exhibit his erudition.
THE follies, vices and consequent mis-
cries of multitudes, displayed in a news
paper, are so many admonitions and
warnings-so many beacons, continu-
ally burning, to turn others from the
rock on which they have been ship
wrecked.
MAN is but rough pebble without
the attrition received from contact with
the gentler sex. 1t is wonderful how
the ladies pumice man down into
smoothness which occasions him to roll
over and over with the rest of his spe-
cies, jostling but not wounding his neigh
bors.
THE liberty we obtain by being mem
bers of civilized society would be licen-
tiousness if it allowed US to harm 9TH
ers, and slavery if it prevented us from
benefiting ourselves. True liberty, there
fore, allows each individual to do all the
good he can to himself without injuring
his neighbor.
THE basest thought possible concern
ing man is that he has no spiritual ma
ture; land the most foolish misunderstand-
ing of him possible is that he has, or
should have, no animal nature. For his
nature is noblv animal, nobly spiritual
-coherently and irrevocably SO; neither
part of it may, but at its peril, expel,
despise, or defy the other.
If only to avoid doing mischief, we
should form purpose to do good. Few
men seriously purpose to work evil. 1t
is from lack of purpose that most fall,
and disaster and wrong doing ensue.
The year which we are about to enter,
will be happy and prosperous in proper
ton as we form and cherish purpose
that our lives will be honest and wise.