Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-10-27
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THERE are people who probably think
their heads were made for wearing
crowns, every time they look into look
ing glass.
GODS sweet dews and showers of grace
slide off the mountains of pride, and fall
on the low valleys of humble hearts, and
make them pleasant and fertile.
LEARN the value of a mans words
and you know him. Each man has a
measure of his own for everything; this
he offers you inadvertently in his words.
IT is better to meet danger than to
wait for it. He that is on lee shore,
and foresees a hurricane, stands out to
sea and encounters a storm to avoid
shipwreck.
OF all things. wisdom is the most ter
rified with epidemical fanaticism, be-
cause, of all enemies, it is that against
which she is the least able to furnish any
kind of resource.
INDUSTRY is essentially social. No
man can improve either himself or his
neighbor without neighbOrly help, and
to better the world is to set the world to
work together.
REMEMBER that nothing will supply
he want of prudence, and that negli-
sence and irregularity long continued
will make knowledge useless, wit ridic-
Ilous, and genius contemplate.
THE heart will commonly govern the
lead. and it is certain that any strong
passion, set the wrong way, will always
infatuate the wisest of men; therefore,
the first part of wisdom is to watch the
affections.
IT is the great art and philosophy of
life to make the best of the present,
whether it be good or bad-to bear the
one with resignation and patience, and
to enjoy the other with thankfulness and
moderation.
A SCHOOL of art, or of anything else.
is to be looked on as single individual,
who keeps talking to himself for hun
dred years and feels an extreme satisfac
ton with his own circle of fayorite ideas,
be they ever so silly.
THINK not that guilt requires the
burning torches of the Furies to agitate
and torment it. Frauds, crimes, remem
brances of the past, terrors of the future
these are the domestic Furies that are
ever present to the mind of the impiOus.
COMMON sense is science exactly so
far as it fulflls the ideal of common
sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at
any rate without the distortion of preju
dice, and reasons from them in accord
a1ce with their dictates of sound judg
ment.
RIDICULE is most cruel and danger
Gus remedy for any fault or failing, and
is likely to be productice of greater evils
than that upon which it bears, especially
as it is almost always aimed at those
things which the poor victim is thor ough-
ly conscious of, but is not able to help.
SAYS a distinguished lady: 1t is in the
faculty of noble, ,disinterested, unselfiSh
love that lies the true gift and power of
womanhoOd power which makes us.
not the equals of men Il never care to
claim such equality but their equiva
lents; more than their equivalents in a
moral sense.
TRUE politeness is the spirit of benev-
elence showing itself in a refined way. 1t
is the expression of good will and kind
ness. 1t promotes both beauty in the
man who possesses it and happiness in
those who are about him. 1t is religi-
Gus duty, and should be part of religi-
Gus training.
sHE who would eat the kernel must
crack the nut-he who would have the
gain must take the pain" Right judg-
ment is the kernel of the whole great
nut of life, but it is to be gained only
by pain and diligence, and the determi-
nation to know so much of the truth of
things as we can get at.
WHEN Christian doubter goes seek
ing after strange religions in the Orient
and finally bumps up against the hard,
unyieldiug fact that most of them
have fifteen or twenty commandments,
and some of them one hundred or more,
he gradually comes back with the feel
ing that Christianity is good enough for
him.
If intellect can level up, so can it
down; and the artificial heights, which
to some are barriers raised by social dig
mites, come even with the fertile plain
when the mind is greater than the station.
A scientist is no less scientist because
he is lord, any more than philosopher
is no less philosopher because he was
born of small farmer and bred in a
hut In either case it is the intellect
which equalizes; and to this those who
know the measure of values pay homage
NEITHER learning, nor philosophy, nor
advantages of any kind, hold monopo-
ly of correct Judgment as to the right
and wrong of the everyday affairs of life.
He who, with ordinary intelligence and
sincere desire to do right, trusts to his
own instructive ideas of what is right, is
far more likely to decide wisely and to
act Justly than one who uses his brains
to weave arguments, to find specious ex-
cuses, evasions, and contradictions, or to
discover some supposed conflict of duties
which shakes his previous firm convic-
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