Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-01-12
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
MERIT has rarely risen of itself, but
pebble or twig is often quite sufficient
for it to spring from to the highest as
cent.
CREDIT is a matter so subtle in its es
sence, that, as it may be obtained almost
without reason, so without reason may
it be made to melt away.
IT is a fact which escapes none. that,
generally speaking, whose is acquainted
with his worth has but but little stock
TO cultivate acquaintance with.
WHAT world of gossip would be
prevented if it was only remembered
that person who tells you of the faults
Of Others, intends to tell others of your
faults!
THERE is no royal road to anything.
One thing at time, all things in sue
cession. That which grows fast, with
ers rapidly; that which grows slowly,
endures.
THERE never did and there never will
exist anything permanently noble and
excellent in the character which is a
stranger to the existence of a resolute
self denial.
GOOD conscience is an excellent thing,
and SO, too, is a winsome manner. 1t
should be carefully guilty ated. When
frankness becomes rudeness it should be
properly checked.
THE great secret of success in life is
for a man to be ready when his Oppor
tunity comes. Many people never find
ont that an opportunity is an opportuni-
ty until it has turned the next corner.
WHEN You see an old man amiable,
mild, equable, content and good humor
ed, be sure that in his youth he was just,
generous and forbearing. In his end
he does not lament the past. nor dread
the future. He is like the evening of a
line day.
THE man who lives right and is right
aas more power in his silence than an
other who lives differently has by his
words. Character is like bells which
ring out sweet music, and which, when
touched accidentally even, resound with
sweet music.
No one who has charge of the young
can be too careful in preventing the dali
iy recurrence of, apparently, the most
Insignificant Irregularities; for, allowed
TO-DAY, they come with little more
strength to morrow, and in short time
become fixed characteristics for lire.
MORAL beauty comp ises two distinct
elements, equally but diversely 5eauti-
ful-justice and charity, respect and
conduct justice and charity accomplshes
the most beautiful of all works. The
good man is, in his way, the greatest of
all artists.
In the struggle of life the hero and
the coward, the conqueror and the con-
quered, need sympathy equally. Often
the mind which upholds Others needs it
self to be upheld; the honest heart which
seems to be bold and true is fainting
from secret sorrow, dying from some
little wound which sympathy could
stanch, the pain of which it could allie
viate.
How many take wrong view of life
and waste their energies and destroy
their nervous system in endeavoring to
accumulate wealth, without thinking
Of the present happiness they are throw
ing away 1t is not wealth or high sta
ton which makes man happy. Many
of the most wretched being on earth
have both; but it is radiant, sunny
spirit, which knows how to bear trials
and enjoy comforts, and thus extract
happiness from every incident in life.
THERE are people who quietly and
perhaps good but with fixed
deter Imination, insist that other peoples
preferences shall give way to theils; and
who, if they are thwarted, make them
selves infinitely disagreeable. A man
of this stamp may have many good
qualities; he may be respected, but he
cannot be loved. Not even his nearest
relatives can avoid feeling a certain re-
straint in his presence, and sense of
relief when he is absent. The flower of
love may live through many injuries,
but it cannot survive in an atmosphere
of perpetual frost.
HE who understandingly criticises
some practical work has definite and
useful object before him-viz: the i'm
provement of that work in the present
and the future; but the critic of char
acter usually has no such aim and can
hope for no such result. If his criticism
be unfavorable, he may lnjure a mans
reputation, cloud his prospects, rouse
his anger. push him lower down in the
scale of manhood, but can never thus
help to lift him up or to awaken within
him the desire to live more nobly. or
course there are exceptions to this
cases where duty to others demands the
utterancc of many unwelcome truths;
but in general the detractor has no such
motive-he merely speaks evil of an
other in desultory, careless, self -indul-
gent way, without counting the cost,
and certainly without any well defined
idea of doing good.