Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-16
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE pebbles in our path weary us,
and make us footsore more than the
rocks, which require only bold fort
to surmount.
How easy is the thought, in certain
moods, of the loveliest, most unselfish
devotion! How hard is the doing of the
thought in the face of a thousand un-
told difficulties!
CHEERFULNEss is a great tonic. 1t
is light and air to our moral nature;
and to be without it is to be without
something that answers to the mind for
what clothing and shelter is to the body.
THAT man only is truly educated who
has been so trained in his youth that
his body is the ready servant of his will,
and performs with ease and pleasure all
the work that, as mechanism, it is ca
pable of doing.
If none asketh aught of wise man
ne is like drum that is not beaten; If
any ask aught of him, then his wisdom
tloweth forth as the rain; but the igno
rant man, whether any asketh aught, or
lsketh not, always talketh much.
IT takes two to make quarrel or a
.candal. Be neither first nor second.
lnd there cannot be a third. In every
mans nature there is an interior unex-
olored as that of Africa, and over that
'egion what wild beasts may roam!
THERE are none living who do not, in
greater or less degree, have an influ-
ence over the earthly happiness of 9th
ers. The sense of contributing to the
pleasures of others augments our own
happiness. Unsel6shness,C Christian char
ity, and loving kindness are sunbeams
of the soul.
ExERTIoN, whether called labor, re-
creation, or amusement, is essential to
nealth; and, as the body was made for
labor, work is its natural and honorable
Iuty. An idle man or woman is dis
credit to the race, and unusually liable
tofall into disease, whilst an industrious
person adds to the wealth of the coun-
try, and is more likely to be healthy and
happy.
THE truly strong man, whose strength
If mind and of purpose all respect and
nave faith in, is he who ha5itually rules
himself, guides his own powers, directs
MS own energies, holds the rein of his
own desires and feelings. He who is
sometimes their master and sometimes
their slave will find the fitful power grad
ually slipping from him, and the chains
If his slavery Tightening their hold.
IT is precept of good manners and
good sense, and therefore of good style,
20 adapt your illusions TO your audi
,nce. People who obtrude their partic
ular "shop" on mixed company, or per
plex the strangers within their gates
with unintelligible family jokes, are
guilty of lntolerably bad manners. So,
IN literture, persistent illusions to out
If the way and obscure books and char
lcters are equally piece of bad man
nerS. Allusiveness is felt to be often
sive the moment the illusions are not
understood.
MAKE sobriety habit, and intemper-
aDce will be hateful; make prudence
habit, and reckless profigacy will be as
contrary to the nature of the child,as the
most atrocious crime would be. Give
child the habit of Sacredly regarding the
truth; of carefully respecting the prop
erty of others; of scrupulously abstain
ing from acts of improvidence which
an involve him in distress, and he will
Just as likely think of rushing into an
clement in which ne cannot breathe, as
of lying, or cheating, or stealing.
THERE are few greater tyrants than
what are commonly called spoiled chill
dren The parents, however superior
they may in many regards, are their very
slaves. They have sacrificed everything
for them. and required no sacrifice at
their hands in return. Thus the chill
dren expect to receive every thing and to
give nothing. The habit of seltishness
becomes ingrained, and, while they de-
velop no power of making Others happy,
they lose the power of enjoyment in them
selves. The parents lives and happi-
ness, and the children's also, are alike
wrecked on the altar of foolish indul-
gence, while wisdom might have cher
ished both.
THERE is moral grandeur in the
thought have made myself" Peo-
pie may wag their heads, and you may
be denounced, bnt if you are conscious
that integrity of purpose has always
characterized you, and that you now
stand on an eminence placed there by
your own rectitude OF heart, you have
nothing to fear You had not the in
f1uence of wealth, nor the "God speed
you" of powerful friends; but you had
more-a heart fixed and determined, and
this has made you what you are. Go
on add virtue to virtue--look steadily
at the goal before you, and at last your
best teachers and artful companions will
acknowledge your superiority and feel
proud of being among the number of
your friends. The man who is resolved
to be something in the world, should
have nothing to fear, and when he lit
tie dreams of it, honors are gathering
about his head and an influence goes
| ont from him which is pyprfad SILENTLY