Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-03-09
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE heart is loom, and it may
weave whatever it pleases. 1t may
make continu | progress toward trl
umph.
THE man who is ever lamenting, new
er rejoicing. is playing part, for life is
neither constantly painful nor constant
ly gay.
WE ought deliberately to school our
selves not to add by look or by word to
the unhappiness of those who have al
ready enough to bear.
WE can never see this world In Its
true light unless we consider our life IN
it as a state of discipline condition
through which we are passing to prepare
for another.
HE who insults me to my face can yet
be an honest man and my friend, but he
who praises me on all occasions is
fool, who despises me, or a knave, who
wishes TO cheat me.
To have a dignified and cordial man
ner you must have love to God and your
fellow beings in your heart. 10 have
good manners you must use them every
day at home, and not keep them merely
for company.
THERE is many man whom we call
friend, and whose face seems familiar to
IS as our own; yet could we but take
glimpse of him when we leave his pres
ence, and he sinks back into his chair
.ione, we should sigh to see how often
he smile on the frankest lip is but
bravery of the drill, only worn when on
parade.
WERE men so enlightened and studi
Gus of their own good as to act by the
dictates of their reason and reflection.
and not the opinions of others. conscience
would be the steady ruler of human life,
and the words truth, law, reason, equity
and religion could be but synonymous
terms for that only guide which makes
us pass our days in our own favor and
appreciation.
HONEST doubts can exist only in the
minds of honest doubters that is, those
who are in earnest, and faithful to fact
as to what they believe, and why they
withhold credence. The posture of such
ioubters is expressed in the cry, Il be-
lieve-help Thou mine unbelief." Such
men do not take pleasure in their un-
certainty, much less do they parade ii
Is an excuse for self-indulgence.
If anything in the world will make a
man feel badly it is quarrel. No man
fails to think less of himself after than
he did before; it degrades him in the
ewes of others, and what is worse, tends
70 blunt his sensibilities, and increases
his irritability. The truth is, that the
more peaceably and quietly we get on
the better for our neighbors. In nine
cases out of ten the better course is, If
the man cheats you, to quit dealing
with him; if he ISLANDERS you, take care
to live down his ISLANDERS. Let such
persons alone, for there is nothing bet
ter than this way of dealing with those
who injure US.
To be beautiful in person one must
be born so, and then preserve this i'll
herited beauty by preserving the health
Conform to all its laws in eating. sleep
ing, working, and violate none of them
Go to no excesses of any kind. But if you
desire to be more beautiful than this
then the mind, the heart, the disposi
ton, must be cultivated in a reasonable
way. The will must be trained to con
centrate the mind aud the emotions dis
ciplined. Kind impulses must be cher
ished, good deeds performed. All can
not be beautiful in form and feature
but all can, if they try, be beautiful il
life and character.
To know how to dwell in the presen
not merely .contentedly, but intelligent
ly and teachably, affords the best prom
ise for usefulness and happiness. What
ever may be the condition in which w
find ourselves, it has positive life o
its own which we should willingly EN-
brace. positive benefits which we shoult
be anxious to reap. positive helps which
we should be glad to welcome. D
course it is right to look forward t.
higher and better things-passive con
tentment with the present would proven
all progress; but to despise and scorl
the life we are in, which is as real ant
full of meaning as any other can eve
be, to ignore its lessons, to forget it
privileges to be insensible to its joys, j
to lose Just so much of happiness an
value out of life.
IT is not true that the world is smootf
Therefore do not teach your boys tina
they will find it so. If you do the
will have to learn the contrary by bite
experience. Tell them frankly that tn
pathway of life. to active men, to sue
}. as faithfully serve themselves and the
kind, is rough, and rugged, and thorn!
Then they will not be disappointet
But inculcate with this correct iDforms
ton lessons of physical and moral cou
age Instruct them that he who shrink
from the encounter is a coward; whi
he who bravely does his duty, under a
u circumstances, in spite of opposition
II sometimes, it may be, in the face of d.
Il nunciation and obloquy-is a true her
n He has sufficient reward, and of tn;
he is alway certain, in the mere col
seriousness of doing right. That wi