Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28

weakest ullHueu anu IuO idluCot-hOoib
ed men that most love change.
What seems generosity is often dis
guised ambition, that despises small
things to run after greater interests.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
REFLECT upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many; not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men
have some
THE world will be nearer right when
a man has learned to laugh little less
at his neighbor's troubles, and a little
more at his own.
ONE BIZ one the objects of our affec-
tions deaart from US, but our affections
remain, and, like vines, stretch forth
their broken, wounded tendrils for sup
port.
THE good of life are are not only
those that delight the eye or ear, or COM
mend themselves to the palate, but also
those that cause a joyfulness in the
heart.
AT the end of life we discover that we
have passed nearly one-half of it in be-
ing happy without realizing it, and the
other half in imagining that we were
miserable.
EVENTS are only winged shuttles
which fly from one side of the loom of
life to the other. bearing the many col
oored threads out of which the fabric of
our character is made.
THERE never was day that did not
bring its opportunity for doing good that
never could have been done before, and
never can be again. 1t must he im-
proved then or never.
THE higher must always come through
the loss and death of the lower. Man
hood can only be gained by the giving
up of childhood. The blossom must die
before there can be fruit.
COMMONPLACE though it may appear,
this doing of ones duty embodies the
highest ideal of life and character
There may be nothing heroic about it,
but the common lot of men is not heroic.
TIE truly great man is he who does
not lose his child heart. He does not
think beforehand that his words shall be
sincere, nor that his actions shall be res
olute; he simply always abides in the
right.
WHEN the hour of trouble comes to
the mind or the body, or when the hour
of death comes, that comes to high and
low, then it is not what we have done
for ourselves, but what we have done
for others, that we think on most pleas
antly.
In Nature there is no dirt, everything
is in the right condition; the swamp and
the worm, as well as the grass and the
bird-all is there for itself. Only because
we think that all things have. a relatit N
to us, do they appear justifiable or 9th
erwise.
IT is no small commendation to man
age little well. He is good wagner
than can turn in a little room. To live
well in abundance is the praise of the
estate, not of the person. L will study
more how to give good account of my
little, than how to make it more.
GOODNESS answers to the theological
virtue charity, and admits no excess but
error <rhe desire of power in excess
caused the angels to fall; the desire of
knowledge in excess caused man to fall;
but in charity there is no excess; nei-
ther can angel or man come in danger
by it.
NATURE never gives to living thing
capacities not particularly meant for lis
benefit and use. If Nature gives to us
capacities to believe that we have Gre
ator who we never saw of whom we
have no direct proof, who is kind and
good and tender beyond all we know of
kindness and goodness and tenderness
on earth, it is because the endowment
of capacities to conceive Being must
be for our benefit and use; it would not
be for our benefit and use if it were lie
AS industry is habitnal activity in
some useful pursust,sO not only inactiy-
ity, but also all efforts without tn,
design of usefulness are of the nature OF
idleness. The snpine sluggard is no more
indolent than the bustling dO-nothing
Men may walk much and read mucf
and talk much, and pass the day with
out an unoccupied moment, and yet bt
substantially idle, because industry re
auircs at least the intention of useful
ness Bnt gadding, gazing. lounging
mere pleasure mOngering, reading fo
the relief of ennui, these are as useless
as sleeping or DOING.
IERHAPs to sensible man, the mos
painful feelings of being in the wrons
box-a box which almost all of us a
one time or another get into-are occa
stoned by his having been betrayed int,
using hard words. The fact is, all harC
hard words are a mistake. Most of on
quarrels arise from total misunde
standing of each other, and few of II
are so bad as to deserve the rabid cen
sure which will pour upon MS. Har;
words at best will not mend the matter
One might as well try to mend glas
windows by pelting them with stones
Soft words, however, fall like a healin,
balm on the hearts of all, and we ar
told they turn away wrath; if SO, it j
worth while employing them.