Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-01-21
CHOICE NxCERPTs.

CHOICE NMCERPTS.
WE should labor to treat with ease of
things that are difficult, with familiarity
of things that are novel, and with per-
spicuity of things that are profound.
HUMILITY is the part of wisdom, and
is most becoming in men. But let no
one discourage self reliance; it is, of all
the rest, the greatest quality of true
manliness.
THERE is no possible success without
some opposition as a fulcrum; force Is
always aggressive and crowds something
or other, and if it does not hit and tram
pie upon it.
EVERY man has obligations which be-
long to his station. Duties extend be-
yond obligation md direct the affec-
tions, desire nd inattentions as well
as the actions.
THERE is in most people reluctance
and unwillingness to be forgotten. We
observe, even among the humblest, how
fond they are to have an inscription over
their graves.
THE man who has the courage to fail
in trying to do right, rather than sue
ceed in wrong, is the real hero, no mat
ter whether he wears paper cap or a
crown on his head.
ALL the good things of this world are
no further good than as they are of use;
and whatever we may heap up to give to
Others, we enjoy only as much as we
can use, and no more.
PLEASURE is necessary reciprocal;
no one feels it who does not at the same
time give it. To be pleased, one must
please. What pleases you in others Will
in general please them in you.
Iw-H popularity! but it is that popu-
larity ich follows, not that which is
run after. 1t is that popularity which
sooner or later never fails to do Justicei
to the pursuit of noble ends by noble
means.
We may satirize error, but we must
compassionate the erring; and this We
must always teach by example to chill
dren, not only in what we say of others
before them, but in our treatment OF
themselves.
WE are born at home, we live at home,
and we must die at home; so that the
comforts and economy of home are Of
more deep, heartfelt and personal inter
est to us than the public affairs of all
the nations in the world.
THINKING, nos growth, makes man.
hood. Accustom yourself, therefore to
thinking. Set yourself to understand
whatever you see or read. To join think
ing with reading is one of the first max
inns, and one of the easiest operations.
WE are ruined, not by what we really
want, but by what we think we do
Therefore never go abroad in search of
your wants, if they be real wants they
will come home in search of you. For
he that buys what he does not want will
soon want what he cannot buy.
LIFE, no doubt, is paved with enjoy
ments, but we must all expect times of
anxiety, of suffering. and of sorrow;
when these come it is an inestimable
comfort to have some deep interest
which will, at anyrate to some extent,
enable US to escape from ourselves.
IF any speak i'll of thee, flee home to
thy own conscience, and examine thy
heart; if thou be guilty, it is just con-
viction; if not guilty it is fair instruc
tion; make use of both; so shalt thou
distill honey out of gall, and out of an
open enemy create secret friend.
DID you ever hear of a man who had
striven all his life faithfully and singly
toward an object, and in no measure OBJ
tanned it? If a man constantly aspires,
is he not eleYatel2 Did eyer man Try
heroism, magnanfmity, truth, sincerity,
and find the there was no advantage in
them-that 1t was vain endeavor?
WHEN men, weary with the worlds
battle, return to the shelter of their own
home, they need the kindness, the re-
finement, the high cultivation, the use
fuiness, the gentle piety which woman
afford him. The cultivation of a wom
ans mind cannot be carried too high,
butt it must be cultivation proper to
herAto her constitution, her marked
gifts, her work in the world.
EVERY man or woman who is doing his