Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

to be rich in what he is.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
IT is in periods of apparent disaster,
during the sufferings of whole genera
tions, that the greatest improvement in
human character has been effected.
He who would do some great thing in
this short life must apply himself to the
work with such concentration of his
forces as to spectators, who live only to
amuse themselves. looks like insanity.
DESPAIR makes a despicable figure,
and is descended from a mean original.
1t is The offspring of fear, laZiness and
impatience. 1t argues defect of spirit
and resolution and often of honesty
| too.
IT is a commonly observed fact that
the enslavement of women is invariably
associated with low type of social life,
and that, conversely, her elevation to-
ward an equality with man uniformly
accompanies progress.
LIFE, which all creatures love and
strive to wonderful, dear, and
pleasant unto each, even to the mean
est-yea, a boon to all where pity is; for
pity makes the work soft to the weak
and noble for the strong.
The essential difference between a
good and bad education is this, that
| the former draws on the child to learn
by making it sweet to him; the latter
drives the child to learn by making it
sour for him if ne does not.
We can be thankful to friend for
few books or little money; and yet for
the freedom and command of the whole
earth and for the great benefits of our
being, oar life, health and reason, we
look upon ourselves as under no obliga-
tionS.
MEN of learning who take to business
discharge it with greater honesty than
men of the world; because the former,
in reading, have been used to find vir
tue extolled and vice stigmatized, while
the latter have seen vice triumphant
and virtue discountenanced.
A GOOD conscience fears no witnesse
but guilty conscience is sOlicitous
even in solitude If we do nothing but
what is honest, let all the world know it;
but, if otherwise, what does it signify
to have nobody else know it, so long as
| know it myself? Miserable is he who
Sights that witness.
How often might man, after he had
iumbled set of letters in bag, fling
them out upon the ground before they
would fall into an exact poem, yea, or
so much as make good discourse in
prose? And may not little book as
easily be made by chance as this great
volume of the world?
A MAN sbonld always have this rule
in readiness: To change thy opinion, if
there be any one at hand to set thee
right, and move thee from any opinions;
but this change of opinion must proceed
only from a certain persuasion as of
what is just or of common advantage or
the like, not because it appears pleasant
or brings reputation.
AS soon as we grow self satisfied and
content with what we know and do and
are, we cease TO advance. Whatever
change shakes us out of this false Sc
curity, shows us our deficiencies, assOci-
ates us with our superiors in action OF
l.
cxertion is a real blessing, through
whatever disguise OF temporary pain OF
modification it may appear.
WHEN we think of the many and
widely differing relations of life we sus
tain and the consequent various duties
devolving upon us, we feel somwhat be-
wildered at the amount of knowledge
of many kinds that seems essential. But
time is short and our powers are limit
ed, so we must be satisfied with thor
oughness in one department and only
a moderate proficiency in many Others.
MAN is strong, but his heart is not
adamant. He needs a tranquil mind,
and especially, if he is AN intelligent
man with whole head, he needs its
moral force to maintain its composure
in the conflict of life. Home, to be |
home, must be a place of peace and com |
fort. There his soul. day after day, re-
news its strength, and goes forth with |
added vigor to encounter the labor and |
troubles and perplexities of life But
if at home he finds no rest, and constant
y NETS with bad temper, jealousy and |
gloom. or is everlastingly assaled with |
complaints and cenSure, hope vanishes. |
and he sinks into despair.
INsINCERITY and eowardice sail most |
wrongfully under the false colors of |
kindness and courtesy, while rndeness |
and bad manners cloak themselves un-
der the specous name of sincerity. The
petty lies of society, the 1attery used for
SO many ends. the cowardly evasion of
convictions and hiding of thoughts that
demand full utterance, the apparent as
sent when dissent is in the heart, the
profession Of an esteem which is not
felt and an affection which does not ex-
ist-ali these Lave nothing to do with real
pollteness, and have Lot shadow OF
right to Justify themselves under her
name. She does not demand them, and
cannot be held responsible for them.