Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-28

Love without esteem cannot reach far
or rise very high; it is an angel with but
one wing.
The easiest money to spend and the
hardest money to save is that which we
have not yet earned.
Do not wait for extraordinary opportu-
mites for good actions, but make use of
common situations
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CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE bells ring out on New Years day,
Sounding their carol loud and gay,
And hearts of men toward he ven turn,
And nobler thoughts within them burn;
LOOK up the bells all seem TO say.
"a Look up and go upon your way.
With lighter heart; it's New Years day,
The years mistakes behind you spurn.'
The bells ring out,
Look heavenward, and as you pray
For strength to guide you lest you stray,
BY your past follies may you learn
That but by effort can you earn
The need" ALI this in the lay
The bells ring out.
WITH more patience men endure the
losses that brfall them by mere casuali-
tv than the damages which sustain by
injustice.
He who i'm tates what is evil goes be
yond the example that is set; on the
ontrary, he VINO initiates what is good
always falls short.
WEALTH is a weak anchor, and glory
.annot support a man; this is the law of
God, that virtue only is firm and cannot
be shaken by tempest.
COURTESY lives by multitude of lit
lie sacrifices, not by sacrifices of sutfi-
cient Importance to impose any burden
some sense of obligation.
OPPOSE kindness to perverseness. The
heavy sword will not cut soft silk; by
using sweet words and gentleness you
may lead an elephant with hair.
MONEY does all things-fOr it gives
md it takes away; it makes honest men,
knaves, fools and philosophers; and so
forward to the end of the chapter.
JUSTICE claims what is due, polity
what is seemly; justice weighs and de-
cides, polity surveys and orders; justice
refers to the individual, polity to the
community.
TIE greatest truths are wronged if
not linked with beauty; and they win
their way most surely and deeply into
the soul when arranged in this their na-
tural and fit attire.
A TRUE critic ought rather to dwell
upon excellencies than imperfections; to
discern the concealed beauties of a writ
er and communicate to the world such
things as are worth their observations.
In troubled water you can scarce see
your face, or see it very little, till the
water he quiet and stand still; so in
troubled times you can see little truth;
when times are quiet and settled, then
truth appears.
If man should register all his opin-
ions upon love, politics, religion, learn
ing, etc, beginning from his youth, and
50 60 on to old age. what a bundle of
inconsistencies and contradictions would
appear at last.
To me it is a delightful thought that
during the familiarity of constant prox
unity the heart gathers up in silence the
nutriment of love. as the diamond. even
beneath the water, imbibes the light
which it emits.
THE aged oak upon the steep stands
more firm and secure if assailed by
angry winds; for if the winter bares its
head, the more strongly it strikes its
roots into the ground, acquiring strength
as it loses beauty.
To say that we have clear con-
science is to utter sOlecism; had we
conscience. Were defeat unknown,
neither would victory be celebrated by
songs of triumph.
SOME pretend want Of power to make
competent return; and you shall find in
others kind of graceless modssty, that
makes a man ashamed of requiting an
obligation because it is a confession that
he has rec eived one.
LOOK at Nature with science as lens.
The rock swarms, the clod dances; the
mineral is but the vegetable stepping
down, and the animal an ascending
plant; the man, a beast extended; and
the angel, developed human soul.
THE color of our whole life Is gener
ally such as the three or four first years
in which we are our own masters make
it. Then it is that we may be said to
shape our own destiny. and to treasure
up for ourselves series of future sue
cesses or disappointments.
MAN reconciles himself to almost any
event, however trying, if it happens in
the ordinary course of nature. 1t is
the extraordinary alone that he rebels
against. There is moral idea assOci-
ated with this feeling. for the extraordi-
nary appears to be something like an in
Justice of Heaven.
LOVE, like the opening of the heavens
to the saints, shows for a moments. even
to the dnllest man, the possibilities of
the human rsce. He has faith, hope
and charity for another being, perhaps,
but the creation of his imagination;
still, it is great advance for man to
be profoundly loving, even in his imagi-
nation.