Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-12
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

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SUBMIT YOUR sentiments with diff
dence. A dictatorial style, though il
may carry conviction, is always received
with disgust.
CONSTANT application to pleasure
takes away from the enjoyment, or rath
er turns it into the nature of very bur.
densome and laborious business.
So long as we are full of self, we art
shocked at the faults of others. Let us
think often of our own shortcomings
and we shall be lenient toward those OF
others.
A GOOD man and a wise man may al
times be angry with the werld, and al
times grieved at it, but no man is ever
discontented with the world if he does
his duty in it.
In reality, there is perhaps no one OF
our natural passions so hard to subdue
as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it
stiile it, mortify it as much as you
please, it is still alive, and will every
now and then peep out and show itself.
WHEN by single whisper of reason
we can in moment quell the refractory
passions, then and not till then shall we
he able to Judge of everything in life
with all the accuracy of right Our
bosom will be tranquil whatever may be-
fall US.
THERE is no moment like the present;
not only so, but, moreover, there is no
moment at all-that is, no instant force
and energy, but in the present. The
man who will not execute his resolutions
when they are fresh upon him, can have
no hope from them afterward.
THE business of life is to 60 forward
he who sees evil in prospect, meets 1t in
his way, but he who catches it by retro
spection, turns back to find it. That
which is feared may sometimes be avoid
ed, but that which is regretted to-day
may be regretted again tomorrow.
WHEN old people 60 back to their
childhood, what things do they remem-
Der most? What do you remember
about your mother that is gone? Not
anything by which she was formally
made known to the world, but some
picture, some scene of tenderness, some
fragrant sentiment which fingers in your
imagination.
THE laws of intellectual progress are
to be read in history, not in individual
experience. We breathe the social air,
since what we think depends very large
ly upon what others have thought
The paradox of to-day becomes the COM
monplace of tomorrow. The truths
which required many years to discover
and establish, are now declared to be in
nate.
OUR measure of rewards and punish
ments is most partial and incomplete,
absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly;
and we wish to continue it in the next
world. Into that next awful world we
strive to pursue men, and send after
them our impotent party verdicts OF con-
demnation or acquittal. We set up our
paltry little rod 10 measure heaven i'm
measurable.
EVERYTHING which lightens human
labor and lifts its burdens is blessing
exactly in proportion to the energy,
courage and industry with which the
released force is set to work in new di-
rections. Wherever the removal of diff
ficulty tends to sloth and inaction, or
wherever the time gained is spent on
frivolous or injurious objects, there it
ceases to be benefit.
IT is matter of deep interest, both
in education and in self culture, to dis
cover how to develop the heart and the
hand in unison. Every one who shares
in the responsibility of training youth
should hold in close view two important
objects-one to quicken the affections,
to stimulate the desires, to cherish and
to raise the ideals; the other to form hab-
its of action in harmony with these.
A PERSON who has formed his temper
and disposition of mind after right
model, who is humble, meek, cheerful,
and contented, can commonly find a
convenient shelter when overtaken by
the storm of life. 1t should therefore
be our early lesson to subject the pas
sions and appetites and desires to the
control and guidance of reason. The
first are the gales to impel us in the voy
age of life, but the last ought still to
sit at the helm and direct our course.
If any one has reared children, and
inducted them safely into manhood in
the midst Of dangers that multiplied
about them, and the troubles that beset
them, and the temptations that surround
them, and the liabilities to evil that con-
tested their way, he must be strangely
insensible, in looking back upon his
household, if he be not overwhelmed
with sense of the multitudinousness of
of Gods mercies. A man may do many
things in this world that are deserving
of praise, but there are few things that
he can do more deserving of praise, than
dying, to leave his name with a family
of children who shall more than fill his
place, and who shall maintain virtue and
intelligence and good habits throughout
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