Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-14
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THERE are forty men of wit to one
man of sense, and he that will carry
nothing about him but gold will be every
day at loss for reader change.
MAKE your dwelling tasteful and at
tractive, both within and without; the
associations of the home of our early
days have strong influence on the fu-
ture life.
EVERY man has in his own life follies
enough, in his own mind troubles enough,
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ciences enough, without being curious
about the affairs of others.
THERE is nothing purer than honesty,
nothing sweeter than charity, nothing
warmer than love, nothing richer than
wisdom, nothing brighter than virtue,
and nothing more steadfast than faith.
JUST as ignorance works more real
mischief in life than wickedness, so does
thoughtlessness bring more disaster
about its own ears and the feet of those
whom it affects than willfulness or in
territorial ill-doing.
AN ungrateful man is detested by all;
every one feels hurt by his conduct, be-
cause it operates to throw damp upon
generosity, and he is regarded as the
common iniurer of all those who stand
in need of assistance.
BY six qualities may fool be known:
anger without cause; speech without
profit; change without motive; inquiry
without al object; putting trust in a
stranger; and wanting capacity to dis
criminate between friend and foe.
REAL foresight consists In reserving
our own forces. If we labor with anxl
ETY. about the future, we destroy that
strength which will enable us to meet
the future. If we take more in hand
than we can do well, We break up, and
the work is broken up with us.
ECONOMY is the parent of integrity,
of liberty, and of ease; and the sister of
temperance, of cheerfulness, and health.
Profuseness, on the contrary, is cruel
and crafty demon that gradually in
wolves her followers in dependence and
debts; that is, fetters them with "irons
that enter into their souls"
CONFINEMENT produces, in some
measure, all those effects which the al
chymist usually ascribes to what ne
calls the philosophers stone; and II 1t
does not bring riches, it does the same
thing by banishing the desire for them
If it cannot remove the disquietudes
arisil from mans mind, body or for
tune, it makes him easy under them.
TAKE counsel with reason and the
higher nature as to what to admire, and
carefully shut out the subtle influence
of self, as it tries to interfere in the
matter and create prejudice in whatever
direction may seem most likely to prove
to its own advantage. Cultivate the
habit of admiring generously and freely
whatever is excellent, and distrust and
discourage the depreciatory tendency,
as intrinsically petty, and leading to de-
terioration of character.
A WISE man hath his foibles as well
as fool; but the difference between
them is, that the fOibles of the one are
known to himself, and concealed from
the world; the foibles of the other are
known to the world. and concealed from
himself. The wise man sees those frall-
ties in himself, which others cannot; but
the fool is blind to those blennishes in
his character, which are conspicuous to
everybody else Whence it appears that
acknowledge is that which makes the
main difference between wise man and
a fool. in the moral sense of that word.
THERE is not faculty, not an energy
within us, that is strong enough to sus-
tain itself unassisted-all are portions
of a common organization, created for a
common purpose and common end,
the integrity of which it should be our
fervid aim to promote. The very weak
ness of our passions shows us the way
AS it is only in storms, and when their
coming waters are driven into the air,
that we catch sight of the depth OF
the sea, it is only in the season of per
turbation that we have glimpse of the
real internal nature of man. 1t is then
only that the might of those eruptions,
shaking his frame, dissipate all the fee
BILE coverings of opinion, and rend in
pieces that cobweb veil with which fash
ion hides the feelings of the heart.
THE right government of the passions
is one of the first of obligations. Strin-
gent municipal regulations bind the
multitude; moral ones, born of the same
necessity, the individual man or woman.
And when we contemplate the passions,
in all their depth and wide diversity,
their splendid beauties, and, when al
lowed to run riot, their horrible de-
formities, we cannot well stif1e the con-
viction that we should be far better off
if we more frequently diluted the ar
dent spirit, pride, with the milk of hu-
mility. Self government cannot be ex-
ercised without labor, high and holy,
body and soul saving labor, which is
only hard to those who deeply mortgage
health and happiness by insensate neg
lect We have the oprion of wearing
the plumage of blissful delight, or the
rags of sordid misery; and why should
we hesitateY The struggle of confound-
ing and confused inclinations may be
arduous, but the success repays all-it
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