Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-12-15
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

are stretched the dTuIS Vi lHe DlNlHc
Mercy, ever ready to receive sinners.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
OUR knowledge doth but show US our
ignorance. Our most studious scrutiny
is but a discovery of what We cannot
know.
IT is very good lesson, though it is
learned with difficulty, and rarely prac-
ticed-to love those who hate US. Who
can do it?
As the law dissolves all contracts
without valuable consideration, so a
valuable consideration often dissolves
the law.
WHAT is the difference between hope
and desire?-Desire is the tree of life,
hope is a tree in flower, and enjoyment
is tree in fruit.
No one need be the slave of circum-
stance, and no nature Can be so hOpelesSly
inert or weak or bad that rightly direct
ed and resolute habits will not reform it.
LET no man cry for leisure in order to
10 anything. Let him rather pray that
he NAV ever be useful. If he really
wishes to do any good thing, he will al
ways find time for it by properly arrang
ing his other employments.
TASKS children must learn, duties
they must be taught; but those who
KNOW how to interest the developing
mind and to feed it wisely and well with
,he lements of knowledge can smake
education one of childhood's desirable
pleasures.
WHEN soured by disappointment, we
must endeayor to pursue some fixed and
pleasing course of study, that there may
De no blank leaf in our book of life.
Painful and disagreeahle ideas vanish
upon any subject.
"WHAT is the hardest lesson you ever
had to learn?" was asked of veteran
statesman, known for his strong preju
iices. That the man who differs from
ne, not only in opinions but in princi-
ples, may be as sincere and honest as
tm," was the reply.
THE noblest part of a friend is an hon
est boldneSs in pointing out our errors.
He that tells me of fault, aiming at
nv good, | must think him wise and
faithful-wise in spying that which l
see not; faithful in plain admOnish-
ment, not tainted with flattery.
No good work was ever begun that
obstacles and hindrances did not speedi-
ly present themselves; and the better the
work the more and greater do the diff
culties often seem to be. 1t is these that
try mems courage; and it is in face of
them that one begins to appreciate how
grand an element hope is in a noble life.
1t is a celebrated thought of Socrates,
that if all the misfortunes of mankind
were cast into public stock, in order to
be equally divided among the whole spe-
cies, those who now think themselves
the most unhappy would prefer the share
they are already possessed of, before
that which would fall to them by such a
division.
THE mistakes we make in Judging
character are legion, for we have so lit
tie foundation to build upon. 1t is folly
to Judge the whole of anything by one
Of its parts; yet what we see of any one
man is but fragment of his whole life.
Yet, even if we never once lost sight of
him and beheld every action he COM
mitted, we should not see his inner life,
his thoughts and feelings, his desires
and motives, his temptations and secret
battles.
A CARPING spirit rarely goes with a
working spirit. 1t is easier to find fault
with what some one else does that it is
to do something oneself; hence man
who enjoys doing the easier thing is dis
inclined to do the harder one. As rule,
men are divided into the two classes of
those who growl and those who work; !;
and each class is alike devoted to his
own mission. But, when it comes to the
relative worth in the community of the
two classes, everybody can see the diff
ference.
To certain extent, every man has a
right to live his own life so as to please
himself. If he is silent by nature, he
may without churlishness go his way
alone. Why should the reticent self
contained man, who does not readily eX-
pand, be expected to bow his way all
along the street because bowing is the
fashion with people who make up the
average of mankind? 1t is not conform
ity to the conventions of men which
makes us agreeable, but delicacy and
consideration when brought into direct
personal contact.
THAT word agreeable" may be mis-
understood unless it is defined. There
are those who try to be agreeable by
agreeing with everybody they meet; but
the end of such persons is sad-they
wade deeper and deeper into weltering
sea Of compliance, contradiction and
deceit until they are lost. Although
they may agree with everybody, other
people differ, and so they end by differ
ing from everybody as well as agreeing
with them and by differing from them
selves too. Not unfreqnently the best
of friends are strongly antagonistic at
many points. and yet find intercourse
agreeable. They know that they must
not expect each other to be clothed in
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