Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-08-25


headed the wrong way.
Man passes his life in reasoning or
the past, in complaining of the present
and in trembling for the future.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
To enjoy life you should be little
miserable occasionally. Trouble, like
cayenne, is not very agreeable in itself
but it gives great zest to other things.
WOE to falsehood! it affords no relief
to the breast, like truth; it gives us nc
comfort, pains him who forges it, and
like an arrow directed by god, flies
back and wounds the archer.
THE desires that have only bodily
end and aim, that are uncOnnected with
the high, holy and noble purposes of a
pure, true. and good life, are false de-
sires, and should be slain.
He who does not respect confidence
will never find happiness in his path.
The belief in virtue vaniSheS from his
heart, the source of nObler action be-
comes extinct in him.
IT will afford far sweeter happiness,
in the hour of death, to have wiped one
tear from the cheek of sorrow, than to
have ruled an empire. to have conquered
millions. or to have enslaved the world.
THERE are people whose good quail
ties shine brightest in the darkness, like
the rays of the diamond; but there are
others whose virtues are only brought
out by the light, like the colors of a
silk.
1t were better to have no opinion of
God at all than such an opinion as is
unworthy of Him; for the one is unbe-
lief, and the other is contumely, and
certainly superstition is the reproach of
deity.
THE consciousness of being loved
softens the keeneSt pangS, even at the
moment of farewell; yea, even the eternal
farewell is robbed of half its bitterness
when uttered in accents that breathe
love to the last sigh.
PEACEFUL and harmonious relations
in human SOciety,the blessings of friend
ship, and the joys of affection can be
the share only of him who can govern
his feelings instead of allowing his feel
ingS to govern him.
THE desire to do right and the knowl-
edge of what is right must go hand in
hand in the formation of every noble
character, and each stimulates the other
to new energy. Any attempt to devel-
op the one to the exclusion of the other
must end in failure.
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 in search of you, for he that
buys what he does not want, will soon
what he cannot buy.
No language can express the power
and beauty and heroism and majesty of
a mothers love. 1t shrinks not where
men cover, and grows stronger where
men faint, and over the wastes of
worldly fortune sends the radiance of its
quenchlesS fidelity like star in heaven.
LOVE, like the opening of the heavens
to the saints, shows for a moment, even
to the dnllest man, the possibilities of
the human race. He has faith, hope,
and charity for another being, perhaps
but creation of his imagination; still
it is a great advance for man to be
loving even in his imaginations.
A MODERATE self confidence is the
foundation of trne manliness of charac-
ter, and the source whence have issued
most of the nOblest enterprises in the
worlds history. Nothing great was
everdone without a proper self esteem
"a quality which becomes objectiona-
bic only when it is allowed to prepon-
Qerate over better feelings.
FINDING how short lived is severything
terrestrial. should we on that account be
sad and desponding? On the contrary,
we should learn to make the most of the
passing hour. We should also acquire
the habit of adapting ourselves to the
fuctuating conditions in which we are
placed. and of compelling even untoward
circumstances to minister to our eujoy-
ment.
WOMEN admire strength without seek
ing to initiate it: men gentleness with
out bestowing il in return. Patience is
strength; impatience is weakness. To sit
quiet, even though what is going on
wearies you, is gain. Buds do not come
up in a day, and if you wait you may
find flowers where only little while ago
YOU thought it was all barren waste.
Strive against the disposition to fly from
one place to another
WHATEVER is beautiful is refining.
Whether in nature or in art, the pres
ence of the-beautiful softens and puri-
fies. But let nU young lady fall into
the blunder of supposing that only that
which is expensive can ever be beauti-
full. II is labor. care, skill, an artistic
eve. and a refined taste that beautify.
Whetcr in home or in dress, in speech
or in manners, money is not the main
thing which provides the beautiful. The
dowdy apparel of many slattern has
cost more money by far than the neat
and beautiful garb of her INDECENT but
orderly neighbor-