Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

are as rule in the wrong.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
RUN not after blessings; only walk in
the commandments of God, and bless
ings shall run after you, pursue and
overtake you.
If we read without inclination, half
the mind is employed in fixing the at
tention, so that there is but one half to
be employed on what We read.
TIE only fountain in the wilderness
of life, where man drinks of water total
ly unmixed with bitterness, is that which
gushes for him in the calm and shady
recesses of domestic life.
How can we measure the sins of 9th
ers except by our own? We know their
virtues better than we do their vices,
and our own vices better than our vir-
tues. This should teach US to obey the
Injunction to esteem others better than
ourselves.
WE must learn how to think and feel
about things. We must get honesty,
and lofty purpose wrought
into the fiber of our being. We must
fix right standards of judgment. We
must be taught and be willing to learn
the way that we should choose.
NlNE-TENTHs of the worry of life is
borrowed for nothing. Do your part;
never leave it undone. Be industrious;
10 prudent; be courageous. Then throw
anxiety to the winds. Sufficient unto
the Lay is the evil thereof; therefore do
lot borrow any for tomorrow.
JUST as the tested and rugged virtue
" the moral hero is worth more than the
'ovaly, tender, untried innocence of the
child, So is the massive strength of soul
that has conquered truth for itself worth
more than the soft peach bloom faith of
a soul that takes truth on trust.
IMPULsIvE people have a certain force
and enthusiasm about them which cool
er and more calculating people some
times lack. Their danger is that they
are prone to act and speak hastily, with
out due consideration, and that therefore
they must sometimes repent at leisure.
TALENT is a very fine thing to talk
about, very good thing to be proud Of,
Il very glorious eminence to look down
from; but tact is useful, portable, appli-
cable, always alert, marketable. 1t is
the talent of talents, the availablene S
of resources, the application of powe:
the eye of discrimination, and the right
hand of intellect.
INSTEAD of saying that man is the
creature of circumstances, it would be
nearer the mark to say that man is the
of circumstances. 1t is charac-
ter which builds an existence out of cir
Our strength is measured
by our plastic power. From the same
material one man builds palaces, anoth-
er novels; one warehouses, another villas.
He who waits, and works while he
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his work will be worthy of his place,
The leap is all the greater because of
the race that goes before it; the current
becomes all the stronger at the last be-
cause it has heen SO long held back by
obstacles; and the nobleSt work is done
by him who has had to wait for long be-
fore he could get at It.
INDIVIDUALS possessing moderate
sized brains easily find their proper
spi e, and enjoy in it scope for all their
energy. In ordinary circumstances they
distinguish themselves, but they sink
when diffiulties accumulate around them.
Persons with large brains, on the other
hand, do not readily attain their proper
place; common occurrences do not rouse
or call them forth.
Do not be older in yonr feelings than
you are in fact. Therefore never with
draw your interest from life. See what is
going on. 1t is good thing for a man
to set his affections on things above,
and to have investments in heaven
There is time for these things; but
they are not inconsistent with the
knowledge of what is taking place be-
low. Men should let the heart of the
times brood upon their hearts.
THE essence of successful business is
of dealing. Without this i'm
portant element, chaos is certain to reign
as indeed we often see domon-
stratcd in the commercial affairs of a
debtor, who, on being called
to account by some dissatisfied creditor,
replies that he has not had time to do
certain things in connection with his
business. But what such a man lacked
was proper appreciation of the econO-
my of time. He either gave too much
time to Incidence and trifles or was rep
rehensibly careless of the Importance of
the time Of other people.
RECREATION is intended to the mind
AS whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen
the edge of it, which otherwise would
grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that
spends his whole life it recreation, is
ever whetting, never moving; his grass
may grow and his steed starve; as con-
trarily he that always tolls and never re-
creates, is ever moving, never whetting;
laboring much to little purpose. AS good
no scythe as no edge. Then only doth
the work go forward. when the scythe
is so seasonably and moderately whet-
ted, that it may cut, and SO cut that il
may have the help o: sharpening.