Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-19
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

heavily loaded they run quietly.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
EVERY day is q little life, and our
whole life is but day repeated. Those
therefore, that dare lose day, are dan
| serously prodigal; those that dare mis-
spend it, desperate.
WHAT are men better than sheep or
goats, that nourish blind life without
the brain, if, knowing God, they lift not
hands of PRAYER both for themselves and
those who call them friends?
OBSERVE carefully whether man is
more Influenced by exceptions than by
rules. As he makes use of exceptions, he
is sagacious; as he applies them against
the rules he is wrong headed.
FRUGALITY may be termed the daugh-
ter of prudence, the sister of temper
ance, and the parent of liberty. He that
is extravagant will quickly become poor,
and poverty will enforce dependence,
and invite corruption.
ADVERSELY is a medicine which peO-
tle are rather fond of recommending in
discriminatory as panacea for theil
neighbors. Like other medicines, it on
ly agrees with certain constitutions
There are nerves which it braces, and
nerves which it utterly skaters.
GIVE us man, young or old, high or
low, on whom we know we can thor
oughly depend, who will stand firm
when others fail; the friend faithful and
true, the adviser honest and fearless;
the adversary just and chivalrous-i.
such an one there is fragment of the
Rock of Ages.
AS there are some faults that have
been termed faults on the right side, so
there are some errors that might be de
nominated errors on the safe side. Thus
we seldom regret having been too mild,
too cautious, or too humble; but we oft
en- repent having been too violent, too
precipitate or too proud.
In proportion as our cares are en-
ployed upon the future, they are alb
stracted from the present, from the only
time which we can call our own, and OF
which, if we neglect the apparent duties
to make provision against visionary at
tacks, we shall certainly counteract our
own purpose.
THE the triumphs of the warrior are
bounded by the narrow theater of his
own age, but those of a Scott or a
Shakespeare will be renewed with great
er luster in ages yet unborn, when the
victorious chieftain shall be forgotten.
or shall live only in the song of the min
strel and the page of the chronicler.
WHAT higher praise can We bestoW
upon any one than to say of him that
he harbor's another,,s prejudices with
hospitality so cordial as to give him, for
the time, the sympathy next best to, il
indeed it be not edification in, charity
itself? For what disturbs more and dis
tlacts mankind than the uncivil man
ners that cleave man from man?
THE hours of wise man are length
ened by his ideas, as those of fool art
| by his passions. The time of the one il
long, because he does not know what t.
do with it; so is that of the other, be
cause he distinguishes every moment OF
it with useful or amusing thoughts-or
in other words, because the one is al
ways wishing it away, and the other is
always enjoying it.
MAN is not machine, and his work
and worth cannot be measured by the
same tests. The machine, however deli
cate1or powerful, requires the elements
of neither Justice nor love to secure the
perfection of its working; but man can
never attain to his own possibilities in
any direction without the inspiration of
both. While, then, the subtle effects
may elude the arithmetician, we may
yet trust them with unbounded conf
dence, certain that their presence is
necessary to bring out the best that is in
every man and every woman, and that
thus in the improvement of humanity is
contained the true secret of the i'm
provement of business in all its forms
THE highest style of being at home
! grows out of special state of the affec
tions rather than of the intellect. Who
has not met with individuals whose
faces would be a passport to any socie
ty, and whose manners, the unstudied
and spontaneous expressions of their
inner selves, make them visibly welcome
wherever they 60, and attract unbound
ed confidence toward them in whatever
they undertaken They are frank, because
they have nothing to conceal; affable,
because their natures overflow with be-
nevolence; ;unflurried, because they dread
nothing; always at home, because tn, y
carry within themselves that which can
trust to itself anywhere and everywhere
purity of soul with fullness of health.
Such are our best guarantees for feeling
at home in all society to which duty takes
us, and in every occupation upon which
it obliges us to enter. They who live
least for themselves are also the least
embarrassed by uncertainties.