Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-07
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
1T is not enough that you keep your
fingers off from a man; you must not let
YOUR ILL nature or wicked thoughts touch
him.
WE have no objection to a man who
rides a hobby-not even if he rides it to
death. We only protest when he takes
up the whole road with it.
MUCH trouble is caused because we
forget that many men do not have the
same kind of religion in business trans
actions that they have in church.
To be perfect, the training of children
must begin with the very cradle. The
saving that a man is bundle OF habits
is as true of babies as it is of grown
children.
WHISKY drinking never conducted
wealth into a mans pocket, happiness tn
his family, or responsibility to his char
acter; therefore whisky is a noD-con
ductor, and consequently it is best to let
it alone.
THE enthusiast has been compared to
"A man walking in fog; everything i'm
mediately around him or in contact with
him, appears sufficiently clear and lumi-
nous; but beyond the little circle OF
which he himself is the center, all is mist
and error and confusion.
A GOOD servant, imagination is the
proverbial bad master. Holding the torch,
it enables the leader of the intellectual
forces to find the right way. When it
assumes the place of leader on its own
account, it lands the whole cohort in the
morass of absurdity, and leaves them
there.
GIRLS should devote as much time as
possible to household matters. Many a
young housekeeper just starting on
rather limited means, would give much
to have spent little more time over
household matters rather than on the
frivolous pursuits which occupied her
time before marriage.
To suppose we can indulge in the low
er passions or appetites for time, and
then at our pleasure subdue them and
lead a higher life, is an illusion which
will dissolve as we approach it. Char
acter is self -perpetuating; it uses all Its
materials, good and bad. None of them
can be swept away or blotted out.
THE every day cares and duties,w which
men call drudgery, are the weights and
counterpoises of the clock of Time, Civ
ing its pendulum true vibration, and
its hands regular motion; and when
they cease to hang upon the wheels, the
pendulum no longer swings, the hands
no longer move, the clock stands still.
THE way of honesty and integrity is
the plain way and the safe way. Gov
ern avarice. Restrain haste to be rich
Disdain any riches for which you have
not rendered an equivalent of honest
thinking, honest skill, and honest in
dustry. Refuse to take a gamblers
bribe. Turn your back on that which is
ruin to your pocket and to your soul
Stand on honesty. Observe moderation
Get no more than you can get by build
ing yourself while you build your for
tune.
WE think that the world is full OF
commonplace human beings, and that
genius and power and heroism and ro
nance and beauty are exceptional and
rare. lust because we know so little
about the real lives and characters OF
our friends and neighbors. We are ia
miliar enough with their faces perhaps
but how much do we know of their in
ner strivings, their hopes and fears, s,theil
motives and principles. We may safely
assert that the more thoroughly we come
TO understand the inner lives of our fel
low men, the least disposed we shall bt
to call them commonplace.
A MAN who can appear a gentleman
when he chooses is seldom a gentleman
at all, but simply man with an artifi
cial polish upon him, which he rubs up
as one does furniture when some one is
about to call. To show no vulgar sur
prise, 10 laugh or smile in the right
place, to speak gently and kindly, ant
to act with ease and naturalness, is tht
sum and substance of good breeding. L
is by striving to be more than we are
by giving ourselves airs, by assuming
more knowledge than we have, and b,
a vast deal of nonsensical pretence, tina
we render ourselves contemplate ant
ridiculous.
SELF-RELIANCEc conjoined with prompt
itude in the execution of our undertak
ings, is Indispensable to success. Ant
yet multitudes live life of vacillatiol
and consequent failure because they re
main undetermined what to do, or, hav
ing decided that, have no confidence il
themselves. Such persons need to b
assured; but this assurance can be OBJ
tanned in no other way than by thei
= own successes in whatever they may at
tempt for themselves. If they lean upol
others, they not only become dissatisfie,
with what they achieve, but the success
of one achievement, in which they ar
entitled to but partial credit, is no guar
anty to them that. unaided, they will nc
fail in their next experiment.