Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-08-04


they will to your precepts.
Sleep eight hours out of the twent,
four; eat three meals day, and wal
on the sunny side of the way.
There wouldn't be so many tired pee
pie in the world if men would stop climl
ing hills before they got To them.
The man who is faithful in the first 10
of work he can get, no matter how poo
it may be. will soon have a better one
You may safely commit your child
clothes TO the servant. but the rest of tn
little one you had better take care c
yourself.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
EVIL springs up,and flowers, and beaI
no seed, and feeds the green earth wit
its swift decay, leaving it richer for tn
growth of truth.
know the past. and thence l will as
say to CLEAN a warning for the future
SO that man may profit by his errors, an
derive experience from his folly.
WHEN You find man or woman o
mature years who is remarkably we
preserved, it is man or woman who ha
goodly supply of sugar in his or he
composition.
KNOWLEDGE is an excellent drug; bu
no drug has virtue enough to preserv
itself from corruption and de ay if tn
vessel be tainted and impure wherein
is put to keep.
SAY what you have to say pleasant
and sweetIy; remember always that tn
fl st thing in life-dear, sweet love-ha
often been won by that delightful thing
"a low voice"
Do not take the yard stick of you
own ignorance to measure what the an
clients knew, and call everything whicl
you do not know lies. Do not call thing
untrue because they are marvellous, bu
give them a fair consideration.
NEVER sit down and brood owe
trouble of any kind. If you are vexe'
with yourself or the world, tl.is is no wa
to obtain satisfaction. ind yOursel
employment that will keep your mint
active; and, depend upon if, this vii
force out unwelcome thoughts.
NOTHING is more certain than tha
human conduct produces its effect upol
human character and det.. mines its flu
itnre veal or woe. Virtue and upright
ness give the pure heart and clear con
science, whose working is an ample re
ward for effort and sacrifice.
THAT life is a poor one which is with
out ambition-which has no object t.
work for, no height to strive to reach
No individual destitute of ambition vii
make his mark in the world. He viii
come and go; few will note his coming
and few will grieve at his going.
LAWSUITS generally originate will
the obstinate and the ignorant, but the.
do not end with them; and that lawye
was right who left all his money to TIL
support of an asylum for fools and In
natics, saying that fIom such he got il
and to such he would bequeath it.
If ultimate results could always b.
taken Ultimately into account, we shoult
perhaps find that, for the building up o
character, the developing of all the man
lier virtues, and the promotion of tn
worlds best welfare, failure has, in tn
long run, succeeded infinitely bette
than success.
VANITY can exist only on marrow
basis; broaden the foui. d ItiOn, and i
will fall to the ground. The greater ;
man is the smaller he feels himself t.
be; for he has in his mind a standard o
excellence far above that which he actu
ally reaches, ever progressing and re
minding him of his own shortcomings.
To be a gentleman and live like
gentleman ought to be the same; but, il
common acceptation, they have no con
nection, are indeed often opposed. 7
be gentleman means great deal-fa
more than many who claim to be gentle
men have any conception of. To liv
like gentleman refers generally to ex
iternals alone, to outside presentation, t
keeping up appearances.
THERE is no short cnt to excellence
In every department of human achieve
ment superiority is based upon toi
and success is reached only by effOr
Drudgery in some form underlies ever
performance that is of any worth, an
ne who plumes himself upon his inge
nuity in escaping from it is like the ma
who congratulates himself on his shrewd
ness in building a house without tn
trouble of laying foundation.
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