Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-03-16
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


IT is better to think deeply on a fer
subjects than to skim over a thousand
and, if we once form the habit of doing
so, we shall soon find it satisfactory and
pleasurable.
TEN friends are dearly purchased if
gained at the expense of a single enemy;
for the enemy will take ten times the
pains to injure YOU that the friend will
take to do you service.
ACTIVE opposition may be met on its
own ground, and is at least a definite
orce to be counted upon and resisted;
nut apathy is a dead weight, crushing
whatever of hope and energy exists.
We pass every day through all the
changes of human experience. We are
children in the morning, with their
fresh young bodies and feelings; we are
middle aged at noon, having seen an end
# all perfection; We are old and weary
md worn out at night.
WHOEVER wishes to abolish anything
wrong or unseemly will best succeed,no
ny dwelling upon it in his mind or Civ
ing it prominence in his conversation,
but rather by treating it with silence,
,nd laying his stress upon the opposite
virtue or good, which by its very pres
-,nce will quietly dispel the evil
NOISE increases the wear and tear of
5he body and tends to shorten life. All
stimulation of the acoustic nerve stimu-
lates the action of the heart, and an un-
'lue frequency or force of the hearts
action means an increased demand on
the resources of our bodies. Incessant
noise tends insensibly to produce fatigue,
and thus to exhaust the strength.
THERE is sort of impulsiveness
which often gets people into serious
trouble. We are fretted and veXed at
he acts of somebody else, and we do
lot wait to think, but say out our irrita-
ion, and wound deeply some sensitive
spirit. We are angry, and We let pas
sion rule us instead of reflection. The
impulsive person who cannot control his
temper is like one who carries fire near
gunpowder.
LOVE makes communists of us all;
md the seed of selishness, of avarice,
If greed, lies in the void made by the
place where love should be and is not.
And vet the true man and woman should
nave more than this merely personal
!ove for one or two for those of their
,wn blood or long time knowledge. We
should feel for all who need our help,
and give it freely to all. We should
take to heart the solidarity of the hu-
man family, not caring only for our own
and none other. We can help whom we
will.
WIEN we are animated by evil
thoughts or unkind desires, when we are
prompted to revenge a wrong, to re-
proach falling to say bitter words, or
to do cruel deeds, we should wait. and
suffer these baneful feelings to cool and
better ones to take their place. But. if
there is any righteous deed to be done.
any Justice to establish, any kindness to
express, any love to manifest, and joy to
diffuse, we should hasten to give it form
AID voice, knowing that there is neither
time to waste nor space to pause in the
blessed work of doing good.
ALTHOUGH no human being can pene-
trate the darkness of the future, yet
there is such thing as so disciplining
oneself as not to be extravagantly elated
by unexpected good fortune or utterly
Drostrated by unlocked for misfortunes.
Such discipline constitutes one of the
principal, and most essential elements
Of human character. 1t enables us in
all circumstances to pers we're in the
performance of the great duties of
life. 1t becomes a source of almost
ooundless strength in carrying reso
lutely to completion the difficult under
takings upon which we see fit to en-
ter 1t enables us to bear with compar-
ative stoicism the trials and disappoint-
ments of life when they come upon us
suddenly and seem almost beyond en- :
durance.
THE magnanimous man will be a great
man intrinsically-t is, he will have
something within him that will raise
him above what is petty and trifling. In
everything he will prefer the greater to
the less, the higher to the lower, the
better to the worse. And this he will
not do so much from sense of duty and
by a selfdenying effort as from sim
pie love and preference for the good. II,
for instance, he is called to choose be-
tween a successful stroke of business
and truthful statement, he cannot hes
itate; all his impulses tend to the latter,
as the greater of the two satisfactions.
If he must decide between personal com
fort or ease and the helping of neigh
Dor in distress, his warm sympathiss for
bid moments doubt. If he is offered
some much-prized luxury in exchange
for little meanness of conduct, he re-
fuses it with scorn. Such things are no
temptation to him, because his mind
at once gauges their comparative un-
worthiness, and his heart recoils from
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