Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-27
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPlS.
GRIEF knits two hearts in close
bonds than Joy ever can, and common
sufferings are far stronger than common
joys.
THE first of all virtues is innocence
the second is modesty; and neither de
parts without being quickly followed by
| the other.
MENTAL pleasures never cloy; unlike
those of the body they are increased by
repetition, improved by reflection, anC
strengthened by enjoyment.
WE should rule ourselves with firm
hand. Being our own master means
often that we are at liberty to be the
slaves of our own follies, caprices anG
passions.
FALSE happiness is like false money
| it passes for time as well as the true
but, when it is brought to the touch, we
find the lightness and alloy, and fee
the loss.
He who waits for an opportunity tC
do much at once may breathe out his
life III idle wishes, and regret in the last
hour his useless intentions and bar
rem zeal.
How much trouble he avoids who
does not look to see what his neighboI
says OF does or thinks, but only to what
he does himself, that it may be just
and pure.
IT is astonishing how soon the whole
conscience begins to unravel if sin
gle stitch drops; one little sin INDUCED
makes hole you could put your head
through.
How easy is the thought, in certain
moods, of the loveliest, most unselfish
l'levotionl How hard is the doing OF
the thought in the face of thousand
unlovely difficulties!
THE every day cares and duties, which
men call drudgery, are the weights and
counterpoises of the clock of time, Civ
ing its pendulum true vibration, and
| its hands a regular motion.
HONOR is unstable, and seldom the
same; she feeds upon opinion and is
AS tickle as her food. She builds lofty
structure on the sandy foundation of the
esteem of those who are, of all beings
the most subject to change.
ACQUISITION girls to be of service in the
household, to regard economy as praise
worthy and even heroic, and to add tO
their accomplishments a practical knowl
edge of work. Such girls, when por.
tionless, will carry to their husbands
dowries in themselves.
THE only conclusive evidence of a
mans sincerity is that he gives himself
for principle. Words, money, all things
else are comparatively easy to give away
but when a man makes gift of his dai-
ly life and practice it is plain that the
truth, whatever it may be, has taken
possession of him.
To believe your own thought, to be-
lieve what is true for you in your pri-
vate heart is true for all men-that is
genius. Speak your latent conviction
and it shall be the univesal ssnse; fol
the inmost in due time becomes the Gus.
TONER, and our first thought is rendered
back to us by trumpets of the best judg-
ment.
TINE is the most subtle and yet the
most Unsuitable of depredators; appear
ing to take nothing it takes all; nor can
it be satisfied until it has stolen the
world from us. and us from the world
1t constantly flies, and yet overcomes
all things by flight; and although it is
the present ally, it will be the future
conqueror of death.
THERE is no talent so useful toward
rising in the world, or which puts mer
more out of the reach of misfortune
than that quality generally possessed by
the dullest sort of people, and in com.
mon speech called discretion-a specie:
of lower prudence, by the assistance OF
which people of the meanest intellect
without any other qualification, pas:
through the world in great tranquility
and with unusual good treatment, nei
ther giving nor taking offense.
THERE are words and wrongs like
knives, whose deep inflicted laceration:
never heal-cutting injuries and insult:
of serrated and poison-dripping edge
so, too, there are consultations of toni
too fine for the ear not fondly and for
ever to retain their echo; caressing kind
nesses-loved, fingered over through {
whole life recalled with unfaded tender
ness, and answering the call with un
dimmed brightness, out of that raveI
cloud which foreshadows death itself.
THERE is nothing simpler or easie
than the power of pleasing. 1t does no
require any peculiar talents or any su
perhuman effort. 1t is not confined t.
any condition of life, nor is it depend
ent on surrounding circumstances. Al
it demands is the presence of sympa
thetic spirit, willingness to be pleased
a desire to see the bright side of thing
and to discover the best points in peo
pie; a frankness and openness of dispo
sition, readiness to leave self and 9th
er engrossing objects and to enter heart
lily into subjects more generally accept
able. Whoever will cultivate thes
qualities and habits of mind, will find
new life opening within him-a life tha
will be fuller and richer in its own hap
piness, because it will be constantly in
creasiDg that of his fellow men.