Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-12-01
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
SWEETNESS that never sourS will dc
more to smooth ones pathway through
the world than great accumulation OF
wealth.
SORROW is the porchway to joy, the
pathway to maturity and peace. No one
has ever become good or great who has
not met and mastered sorrow.
THoUGH we cannot create favorable
! circumstances, We can at least refuse to
join the envious throng that bark at the
heels of their more fortunate fellows.
THE philosopher is the lover of wis
dom and truth; to be sage is to avoid
the senseless and the depraved. The
philosopher, therefore, should live only
among philosophers.
POETRY. the mirror of the world, can
not deal with its attractions only, but
must present some of its repulsions also,
and avail herself of the powerful assist
ance of its contracts.
THAT truth which might make our
life deer er, purer, and better is the truth
which is valuable, which should be sought
with diligence and carries with 1t the
sanction of responsibility.
MEN commonly find more pleasure in
the criticism which hurts than in that
which is innocuous, and are more toler-
ant of the severity which breaks hearts
aud ruins fortunes than of that which
falls impotantly on the grave.
HOME discovers all faults; religion
should bless it with abundance of ehari
ty. Home is the place for impressions.
for instruction and culture; there should
religion open her treasures of wisdom
and pronounce her heavenly benediction.
THAT integrity that lives only in opin-
ion would starve without it; and that
theatrical kind of virtue which requires
publicity for its stage and an applaud
ing world for an audience could not be
depended on in the secrecy of solitude
NEVER be ashamed of confessing your
ignorance, for the wisest man upon earth
is ignorant of many things, insomuch
that what he knows is mere nothing in
comparison with what he does not know.
There cannot be greater folly in the
world than to suppose that we know ev-
erything.
SOME people say that we should al
ways look on the bright side of things.
If that means that we are to look only
on the bright side, we question its wis
dom. Better look on both sides, rejoice
in all the brightness we can see, and
then go to work and brighten up the dark
side all we can.
JUST as the boards of the miser are
of far less value than the money that is
freely circulated and widely employed,
so the time that is boarded up and ex-
clusively devoted to single object is
less productive than that which is in
telligently and generously apportioned
out to meet the varied needs of human
welfare.
TRUE hope is based on the energy of
character. A strong mind always hopes,
and has always cause to hope, because
it knows the mutability of human af-
fairs, and how slight a circumstance may
change the whole course of events. Such
a spirit too rests upon itself; it is not
confined to partial views or to one par
ticular object. And if at last all should
be lost, it has saved itself.
THERE are qualities as far as the poles
asunder which go under the common
name of Pride. Some of the most Iowa
BILE traits of character are associated
with it. some too of the most pathetic,
and likewise some of the most hateful.
False pride is an eager, straining, vul-
gar competitor: but true pride is an ex-
preston of self contained dignity. 1t
a depends on what we are proud Of
whether we look askance at our fellow
men and are filled with a desire to out