Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-06-08
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THERE are very few things in this lif
worth getting angry about, and they ar
precisely the things which anger does no
help.
IT is not the troubles of TODAY, bu
those of tomorrow, and next week, an,
next year, that whiten our heads ant
wrinkle our faces.
| HUMILITY is the first lesson we learl
from reflection, and self -distrust the frs
proof We give of having obtained ;
knowledge of ourselves.
SUFFERING becomes beautiful wheI
any one bears great calamities will
cheerfulness, not through insensibility
bnt through greatness of mind.
IT will help us to accomplish great
feats and win great victories, to remem
Der that all we have to do is to take ouI
duties as they come and perform them
faithfully.
EVERY day is a little life, and ouI
whole life is but day repeated. Those
therefore that dare lose day are danger.
Ously prodigal; those that dare misspend
it are deperate.
To make boys learn to read, and then
place no good books within their reach,
is to give men an appetite and leave
nothing III the pantry save unwholesome
and poisonous food.
PoLITENEss of the simple kind is so
easy, so cheap, so beneficial to the one
who shows it as well as to the recipient
that life is made richer and happier for
every genuinely polite action and word.
THE great moments of life are but
moments like the others. Your doom is
spoken in word or two. A single look
from the eyes, a mere pressure of the
hand, may decide it,or of the lips, though
they cannot speak.
AMBITION is powerful motive, and =,
if it be directed only to honorable and
valuable issues, it is righteous one; but
where it leads to what is false and hol-
low or turns means to an end, it is a
curse to its possessor.
NEVER do an act which you are not
willing should be fully known by those
whose respect you most care for-your
wife and children, for example. Be
cautious in plans and bold in execu ton.
Never leave one employment until you
are sure of another.
WE must say that we utterly loathe
and contemn that awful being who cal
ways speaks his mind" He very often
has no mind to speak, and at the very
best he displays only his uneasy vanity
in the most offensive way, and mistakes
his own british insolence for candor.
Few men have ever earnestly striven
after competence, after health, home
happiness, love of relatives, respect and
confidence of fellow men, and not at
tanned it, Few men that have so lived
have had occasion to part from old as
sociatioEs with dread and to greet new
ones with fears.
THERE are three classes of people who
are to be pitied on account of their
health-those who are convinced they
are ill when they are well, those who
are not well but are impervious to con
viction on that point, and those who
know they are not well but who cannot
pause for repairs.
THE habit of strict and careful accu-
racy in speaking, of saying neither more
nor less than is felt or thought or known,
of recording facts, events and scenes as
correctly as possible, will form the best
possible safeguard against the utterance
of conscious untruth, however strong
may be the motive which may urge it.
GOOD nature is that benevolent and
amiable temper of mind which disposes |
us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the |
happiness of others; and, consequently, |
pushes us on to promote the latter, and |
prevent the former; and that without |
any abstract contemplation on the beau
ty of virtue, and without the allurements |
or terrors of religion.
WE touch one another in all life's as
sociations; we impress more or less all
with whom we come in contact. In the
home, in society, in business we leave
our mark. 1t becomes us all then to in
quire what kind of an impression we are
making upon childhood and manhood in
our several spheres of influence. Is it
for good or for Ill? If for good, then
our life is worth living; If for evil, then
it is failure.
THE future can never be divorced
from the past. 1t is indeed the inevita-
BILE outcome of it. We cannot close up
the record of the years behind us as If
they had not been, and open fresh and
new one bearing no relation to those
that preceded it. What has been sown
will be reaped, and thus, by reviewing
the time that is gone, we may attain
some degree of knowledge of that which
is yet to come. And, as the farmer.
through his successes and his failures,
learns better how to prepare his soil and
to select his seed, so may we learn from