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The prevalence and strength of the times one or more, and frequently all o dominion-wine and lust being peculi and ambition with middle life; and ava age. Some of the passions are more fir but no one can claim exemption from Whatever may be the repelling streng efforts of dissimulation, the involuntar of some or all of these passions const mind.

And they will hold entire control ov resolute and constant resistance.

The mind is not only constantly unde vigorous passions, but it is perpetually stimulated by desire, encouraged by exa that all our thoughts are concealed. around conspires to prick forward the spirit of indulgence.

The prevalence of these active and 1 ties holds this additional advantage over reason. Their strength and power are or confronted by the repulsions of int sions are vigorous, the mind, with most Perhaps there are ten to one of all mental strength is but barely sufficient common wants and exigencies of life; pensities and selfish inclinations pre really govern the conduct of the large

Is it, therefore, difficult to explain or amount of mental misery with weak anguish, poverty, ruined health, blaste morse, and despair produced by pride lust, debauchery, avarice, and crime?

FINALE.

Think twice before you speak or act in requisition all the mental powers, r heart, and restrain the desires of the

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temperance and constant industry; cheerfully and lo the destinies of life with the inevitable and recupe tions of honorable marriage and glorious paternity cherish and sustain the divine inspirations of the substance of the soul, and humbly walk, and devo God. Do these plain works of righteousness and severe, be resolute, and help, peace, security, and sal come as surely as there is trust to be reposed in th of the Almighty Creator of the universe.

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WE are the arbiters of our own destiny, cally, much more than we suppose ourselves

We neglect the discreet precautions for h and then repine at the pain and injured heal upon ourselves, and fret and worry at imagin at resentments we have ourselves provoked.

Purity of purpose is not incidental to inte education; the impulses of a bad heart are i not come from ignorance or feeble intellects. helpless, and scarcely competent to execut errands.

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They have no perception; they cannot re one thing at a time. If you tell them to br a spoon, they will only fetch the cup.

They have no thrift or forecast, make no or age, although they are sometimes affection while those distinguished for wisdom are son selfish.

Man is a social being; but this propensit

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cessary and unprofitable; it leads to familiarity and Mere chatter and gabble is trifling, indecent, a There can be no self-respect or proper regard for ot this rudeness is reciprocated. The true source of p nity is not reserve, but circumspection; not austeri and careful gravity; not ostentation, but benevolenc An irrestrainable love for company argues ignora ren intellect, and often leads the inoffensive and ha strife.

Instead of selecting a choice and suitable comp whom all spare time should be spent, in harmony, and mutual improvement, frugality and love, so as the certain and permanent elements of safety, pea spectability, and make home a paradise, hasty, matches are made, or good ones neglected: other are sought, home becomes a boarding-place, an inn, v not love, censure, not forbearance, rules; and socie taverns, engine-houses, bowling saloons, volunteer yacht excursions, fish-houses, race-grounds, and gam are resorted to, to fill up the deep and ever-wideni mental occupation.

Then come drinking, smoking, late hours, bad waste time and money, loss of character, and all the ruinous train of discomforts, afflictions, and ruin, co our own folly, and unjustly charged to chance and b Infinite annoyance comes, too, from a spirit of co differing in opinion, and raising debates; telling p are wrong, and do not understand things; imputin ignorance and wilful error.

Unless required for the necessary maintenance of is wrong, and never fails to make enemies. We maj be in the wrong. Very often disputes involve n mere opinions, which are entitled to equal respect.

A discreet man will not be too emphatic or positi can bear a flat rebuke. The aggressor will be sh perhaps despised.

Opinions are not strengthened by angry vindicatio is vulgar to raise unnecessary disputes on any occasi Avarice and a desire for riches is one of the mos

sometimes concealed by genius and chivalry seem to go with no redeeming virtue.

There is no limit to the mental torture we by the indulgence of unfounded suspicions. Persons of amiable and interesting qual ciety might improve the sphere of mental h moods, are suspected of pride and slight; t and flirts, we warm up discontent and hat with bile and choler. These vile propens temper, increase exasperation, and make u tious and fretful dispositions banish all lov and compel others, in self-defence, to shun a pestilence.

An amiable but suspicious young gentle excited at a group of men, who, as he pass to each other, and eyed him sharply; he party for explanation, and was abashed to 1 admiring his noble and elegant bearing.

An amiable gentleman and an estimabl understood each other. The gentleman im crossed his path at every turn on purpose him with her arrogance and raillery. At 1 where they casually met, he was introduced I walk with her.

This, too, he took for a trick to tantalize

On their way, she recriminated on him th spiritedly submitted to his sense of honor, never be appeased.

Mutual explanations revealed how much that, without any cause, they had been dodg other most bitterly for more than two years

Acquaintance wears away prejudices, ev are so weak and unjust as to feel unkind But still it is wrong to let temper and jeal ings for an imaginary fault or personal disli

Every one has his peculiarities; ours may to others as theirs are to us; and if mutua

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