Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-24
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

you can't find ugly spots on them. Their
is no Eourishment in any such diet.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
SELF-REsPECT is the noblest carmen
with which a man may clothe himself =
the most elevating feeling with which
the mind can be inspired. One of Pyth
agora's wisest maxims enjOins the pupi
to reverence himself.
AS laughter enables mirth and sur
prise to breathe freely, so tears enable
sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears
hinder sorrow from becoming despair
and laughter is one of the privileges OF
reason confined to the human species.
LEARN from the earliest days to inurt
your principles against the peril of ridi
cule; you can no more exercise your
reason if you live in the constant dread
of laughter, than you can enjoy youl
life if you are in the constant dread Of
death.
No good or lovely thing exists in the
world without its correspondent dark
ness. The universe presents itself con-
tinually to mankind under the stern as
pect of warning or of choice, the good
and the evil set on the right hand and
the left.
SUCH as are thy habitual thoughts
such also will be the character of thy
mind; for the soul is dyed by the
thoughts. Dye it then with continuous
series of such thoughts as these: that
where a man can live, there he can also
live well.
THERE must be something beyond man
in this world. Even on attaining to his
highest possibilities, he is like bird
beating against his cage. There is some
thing beyond, o deathless soul Like sea
shell moaning for the bosom of the
ocean to which you belong!
THE chief art of learning, as Locke
has observed, is to attempt but little at
a time. The widest excursions of the
mind are made by short flights fire.
quently repeated; the most lofty fabrics
of science are formed by the continued
accumulation of single propositions.
PHYSICAL exercise in some system
attic manner is duty we owe not mere
" to our bodies, but to our whole nature.
1t will vitalize the blood, quicken the
energies, give lirmness to the nerves,and
lay foundation upon which we may
build wholesome and successful life.
BE very circumspect il the choice of
thy company. In the society of thine
equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasures,
in the society of thy superiors thou Shalt
find more profit. To be the best in the
company is the way to grow worse. The
best means to grow better is to be the
worst there.
THERE is seldom line of glory writ
ten upon the earth's face but line of
suffering runs parallel with it; and they
that read the lustrous syllables of the
one, and stop not to decipher the spot
ted and worn inscription of the other,
get the lesser half of the lesson earth
has to give.
TIE truth is that most men want
knowledge, OF for itself, but for the
which knowledge confers,
and the means they employ to secure
this superiority are as wrong as the ulti
mate object, for no man can ever end
with being superior who will not begin
with being inferior.
IT is restraint which is honorable to
man, not his liberty; and what is mcra.
it is restraint which is honorable, even
in the lower animals. A butterfly is
more free than bee; but you honor the
bee more, just because it is subject to
certain laws which fit it for ordinary
functions in the bee society.
TIE good make better bargain, and
the bad a worse than is usually sup
posed; for the rewards of the one and
the punishments of the other not infre-
quently begin on this side of the grave.
For vice has more martyrs than virtue;
and it often happens that men suffer
more to be lost than to be saved.
A GREAT man of the last century
said: "He who lives not by rule lives
not at all" Perhaps there is more truth
in that assertion than some are at first
disposed to admit. Confusion greatly
hinders all good things. There is no
example of success without plan.-
Method is essential to a good habit, and
good habit imparts vigor to character.
RECALL at night not only your bust
ness transactions, but what You have
said of those of whom you have spoken
during the day. and weigh in the bal
ance of conscience what you have utter
ed. If you have done full justice in all
your remarks, it is well. If you have
not. then seek the earliest opportunity
to make amends, and carefully avoid a
repetition of the wrong.
Two things in life are absolutely GER
tain-death and sorrow; and these two,
about which there is no contingent. alone
possess the power to surprise u.s. All that
is problematical we are ready for, and
accept without lifting our eyebrows;
but to the figure of sorrow, whose shad
ow falls athwart our path few days
journey ahead, and death, who waits at
its end, without clamor. since he is sure
Of us--to these we say, at cannot be!
1t is impossible!" We count upon the
uncertain, but the inevitable suppris
es us.