Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-20
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
EVERY day is golden opportunity
which the Father of Mercy has put into
our hands for moral and religious pur-
poses.
1T argues poor opinion of ourselves
when we cannot admit any other class
of merit beside our own, or any rival in
that class.
If you wish success in life make per-
severance your wise counselor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your guard
ian genius.
Don't expect much from the man who
is always talking about what great
things he would do if he had some one
else's opportunity.
Do injury to no man, though never so
mean; for once in seven years he may
have an opportunity to do the greatest
man much good or harm.
THE gate of heaven is love; there is
no other. When generous act blooms
from unselfish thought, the Lord is with
us, though we know it not.
THERE are men who are so skillful in
hiding their virtues from the garish light
of day that these are never discovered
even by their most intimate friends.
IT signifies little what we say of our
acqnaintances, so that we do not tell
them what others say against them.
Tale bearers make all the real mischief.
TIE manly way is to treat lightly the
judgments passed on us by others, but
to be honorably sensitive about the judg-
ments we are compelled to pass on our
selves.
ONE of the saddest things about hu-
man nature is that man may guide 9th
ers in the path of life without walking
in it himself; that he may be a pilot and
yet castaway.
THERE appears to exist greater de-
sire to live long than to live well. Meas
ure by mans desires he cannot live long
enough; measure by his evil deeds, and
he has lived too long.
THE influence of men is not to be
confined to the circle of their acquaint-
ance. Itspreads on every side of them,
like the undulations of the smitten wat
er, and will reach those whom they nev-
er saw.
NOTHING of character is really perma-
nent but virtue and personal worth;
these remain. Whatever of excellence is
wrought into the soul itself belongs to
both worlds. Real goodness does not at
tach itself merely to life it points to
another world.
NEVER condemn your neighbor un.
heard; every story has two ways of be-
ing told, and justice requires that you
should hear the defense as well as the
accusation; and remember that the ma
lignity of enemies may place you in a
similar position.
THE test of energy is continuous work
not spasmodic. There must always be
some progress, however slight. To this
end the requisites are system and
thoroughness. system determines the
amount of work that can be got through
thoroughness the quality of it.
AT best, life is not very long. A few
more smiles, few more tears, some
pleasure, much pain, sunshine and songs
clouds and darkness, hasty greetings
abrupt farewells our little play
will close, and injurer and injured will
pass away. Is it worth while to hate
each other?
PEEvIsHNEss is generally the vice OF
narrow minds, and, except when it is
the effect of anguish and disease, by
which the resolution is broken and the
mind made too feeble to bear the light
est addition to its miseries, proceeds
from an unreasonable regard of the i'm
portance of trifles. The proper remedy
against it is to consider the dignity OF
human nature and the folly of suffering
perturbation and uneasiness from cause:
unworthy of our notice.
WHATEVER happens, never forsake a
friend. When enemies gather, when sick
ness falls on the heart, when the worlG
is dark and cheerless, is the time to try
true friendship. They who turn from
the scenes of distress betray their ny
pocrisy, and prove that interest only
moves them. If you have friend thai
loves you, who has studied your Interest
and happiness, be sure to sustain him il
adversely. Let him feel that his love
was not thrown away. Real fidelity
may be rare, but it exists-in the heart
They only deny its power who neve
loved friend or labored to make g
friend happy.
WHAT gentility is it would be hard t.
say. We cannot all be lords and ladies
but all of us, from the highest to tn
lowest, can be gentle men and gentl
women, and we can be hunbleminded
meek in spirit, but bold in thought ant
action; to be truthful, sincere, generous
: to be pititful to the poor and the needy
respectful to all men; to guide tn
young, and to show Difference to age; Il
enjoy and be thankful for our own lot
and to envy none-this indeed is to b
gentle after the model the world ha
ever known, and is far better than bein
genteei.