Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-02
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

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ceive others without their finding it out
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THOSE that place their hope in anoth
er world have, in great measure, con
quered dread of death, and an unreason'
able love of life.
THE moral courage that will face OBJ
loquy in a good cause is much rarer gift
than the bodily valor thatswill confront
death in bad one.
A MAN who is not able to make bow
to his own conscience every morning, is
hardly in a condition TO respectfully sa
lutte the world at any other time of the
day.
REVERENCE the individual who un-
derstands distinctly what he wishes; who
unweariedly advances, who knows the
means conducive to his object, and can
seize and use them.
THE sense of duty is the fountain OF
human rights. In other words, the same
inward principle that teaches the former
bears,witness to the latter. Duties and
rights must;stand and fall together.
LEARN from your earliest days TO in,
ure your principles against the perils OF
ridicule. You can no more exercise
your reason if you live in constant dread
Of laughter than you can enjoy your
life if you are in constant dread Of death
SIMPLICITY is the character of the
spring of life, costliness becomes its au-
tumn; but a neatness and purity, like
that of the snowdrop or lily of the valley,
is the peculiar fascination Of beauty, to
which it lends enchantment, and gives
what amiability is to the mind.
No man of honor, as the word is usu-
ally understood, did ever pretend that
his honor obliged him to be chaste OF
temperate, to pay his creditors, to be use
ful.to his country. to do good to man.
kind, to.endeavor to be wise or learned
to regard his word, his promise, or his
oath.
IT is not great wealth, nor high station,
which makes man happy. Many OF
the most wretched beings on earth have
beth; but it is radiant, SUI ny, spirit,
which knows how to beat little trials
and to enjoy little comforts. and which
thus extracts !happiness from every in
cident of life.
MUCH of the foolish expenditure OF
money comes from the person having
been too suddenly intrusted with the re
spopsibility. There should be a gradual
| training in this as in other duties
many rehearsals under some watchfnl
eve before the time.when mistakes may
prove irretrievable.
Now and then man stands aside
from the crowd, labors earnestly. stead
fastly, confidently, and straightway be-
comes famous for wisdom. intellect, skill,
greatness of some sort. The world won
ders, admires, idolizes; and yet it only
illustrates what each may do if he takes
held of life with purpose.
JUsr as food must have bulk as well
as nutriment, the stomach requiring a
"certain degree of distensiOn" to enable
it to act properly, so do the generality
of minds assimilate knowledge far more
readily and perfectly If it is spread for
them over a tolerably large surface, than
| if it is concentrated, NO matter how
clearly and forcibly, in small compass
THERE is a glare about worldly sue
cess which is apt to dazzle mems eyes.
When we see man rising in the world
a foolishly high opinion is formed of his
merits. 1t is said: "What wonderful
man this must be to rise so rapidly!
forgetting that dust and straw and
feathers, things with neither weight nor
value in them, rise the soonest and the
easiest II is not always the good and
great man who rises rapidly into wealth
and notice.
EVERY man has a right to ask for a
chance. and every man has a chance to
be somebody. We admire the steadi
ness of the surgeons hand and the ease
with which he does his work, but we
know that he has worked hard to attain
that ease. AS to religious virtues man
NAV never seem to lose his temper. II
has taken a great conflict to gain that
serenity of mind. Rubies and pearls
are not difficult things to get, but faith
love, charity and generosity are the most
expensive things in the world.
APPRECIATION may go great way
with the unknowing; but the knowing il
can only disgust. Long words, strange
ness of style, and grand rumbling OF
sentences, are often mistaken for depth
whereas they are simply the muddiness
of a shallow puddle rather than the
clearness of the well; and as the puresI
water is the most clear, bright, and
limpid, so the noblest characters are the
openest and freest from disguise, pre-
tence, or affectation. How few of us are
without little of this weakness! How
many of our voices, smiles, movements
sentences, and sentiments, are free from
this blotf Well, let us hope, great
many. Some people say not; II SO, the
more affected people there are, the more
there are to be pitied. Poor creatures
God has given them one voice and one
face, and they give themselves others
Let them throw those others away
speedily, and take to what is natural
and they will be improved a thousand
foid-for art may err INIT nature can