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The secret art of happiness is to be content; not to b or unambitious, but to employ our faculties for useful a timed emulation; not to neglect, but discreetly encourag priate enterprise.

These aspirations should be restrained by prudence, no occasion suffered to ruffle the judgment.

We might have been born idiots or Hottentots, and a above that mark on the scale of existence is a prize in lottery of creation.

Our natures may be specially adapted to our present and wholly unfit for a different sphere.

However humble our lot, we may accommodate our it, and it is uncertain if this could be accomplished u ferent circumstances.

Hasty movements and sudden changes should be and no man can safely begin another trade or employm which he is ignorant.

Discontent is caprice and self-treachery. He who is fied with his fate, if gratified might still be restless an

for more.

There was a warrior who conquered all the world a for further conquest.

All distinctions, except those resting upon virtue and are artificial and speculative; matters of whim an Those poorer than we are think we are rich, and envy o with the same nervous anxiety that we covet the suppose of others.

So, too, as to every object of desire. The fables of and the shadow, and the man and his goose, teach us who catches at more than belongs to him justly deserve what he has; and that we are too prone to entertain a things at a distance, which, if we had them, might work

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Happiness does not therefore consist in the possess

Happiness is a creature vi ne minu, a tion, a deity which may be enshrined i shiped without idolatry.

It is a cheerful sprightly god, and flies from the lazy, the stupid, and the wic riches, and loves steady work and harmle soberly will vindicate the wisdom of its arguments and minute details.

The clean, or dusty, or the sedentary, an employment does not ascertain the res

racter.

Those whose engagements are sedenta for want of fresh air and exercise, while and in the fields suppose there is more co seclusion of shade and shelter. Those e occupations, say the tailor, or cedar-coo athletic exercise of the smith or the mas mortar. All these are trifling and imm producing no abrasion to a mind not dispo

Whatever may be the self-denial and manly toil, if it does not affect the health will disregard it, and each should striv pursuit. These are the true sources of lay the foundations of true fame and hu He who is more proficient in raising cr ing ships and houses, or making flour or person is in the same pursuit or occupati in his business.

Mrs. Susan Nelson is the most disti Professor Morse is the most exalted inve cause Mrs. Nelson spun more flax in on ever spun before or since; and Professo cessfully discovered the control and prac than any other man.

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of life, and embraces all the successful energies and pirations of man.

Washington was not less illustrious as a soldier, pat statesman than he was as a farmer, a gentleman, and tian. Franklin was not more distinguished for scie search and skillful diplomacy than for his surprising of simultaneous mental and mechanical composition; translation of his thoughts with his types directly mind to his printing-press.

This wonderful accomplishment was acquired by the and patient industry of an ignorant and fugitive soapEvery man, with equal mind and industry, has t chance for the attainment of all these objects; and ev of the same merits, if he does not reach the same poin vation, is entitled to equal regard and admiration.

If he is not known to so many as those more distin he will be certain of the confidence and esteem of all g who do know him; and he will enjoy the highest point o happiness, a positive and sure consciousness of his ow

The exact amount or summit of popularity or fam so important to a contented mind as a well-founded respect for our own virtues. We cannot all be gover generals; and those with subdued and refined feelin have reached high places, have not the appreciation value which is entertained by the crowd. They feel and modesty, rather than ostentation. Their duties great severities of mental toil, research, and public ser which the lives of sensitive persons are tortured and a and thousands, for these reasons, shrink from or decli If Washington, Jefferson, or Jackson, now covered w humous glory, could speak to us from the tomb, th say, that the drawbacks to their fame far outweighed th The desire to be extensively known is absurd. Th ectric meaning in the wish; it is ridiculous; and no one ca good reason for it.

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Dr. Franklin, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Joh Thomas H. Benton, and General Scott, a man of judgment and true pride who American people, have peremptorily dec riotous displays. And the recollection support of the assertion that no one wh been distinguished for wisdom, or has leader.

They are got up for an effect which th

The succession of gorgeous pageantri and glorious from the time of the unanir by the people and their representatives t to visit, in the evening of his life, the ea otism and suffering, until he left the c and universal jubilee of thanksgiving for a millenium in this refuge of persecuted They were songs of pure and pious favors occupied the hearts of the mill throng.

There were more tears than laughter; of religious love and gratitude by the thralled and delivered nation, with thi venerable cotemporaries, for their guests, that has been wrought out, and its objects under the overruling providence of Ålm

Men widely differ in their faculties, a traordinary powers for any one pursuit, extraordinary capacities for a number of The individuals referred to were amor men that have lived.

Moses, Julius Cæsar, Newton, Wash ferson, are instances of intellectual glor luminaries over the arch of time, and myriads of other lights as suns and tw dimmer stars which decorate the skies.

With affluence and ease, some imag and certain joy.

O property. I ne agent шеснате and the ski have obtained no share in the division of the eart] voluntary tax from the possessors of land; and the prompted by a sense of interest to improve those e whose produce they may purchase additional pleasur BON, vol. i. p. 87.

"In a civilized state, every faculty of man is exp exercised; and the great chain of mutual dependen and embraces the several members of society. Th merous portion of it is employed in constant and us The select few, placed by fortune above that ned however fill up their time by the pursuits of intere by the improvement of their estate or of their und by the duties, the pleasures, and even the follies, of Ibid., vol. i. p. 357.

This he contrasts with the life of the barbarians. The mind readily draws and lavishly embellishes ture. It is, for example, of a newly-married pair health, refined and rich, of pure lineage, and spotless surrounded by luxury and friends, to gaze upon the a long life of ease and happiness, and fancy over all t days of joy and peace. To feel the certainty that and dazzling mirror is no delusion, and to contrast glories with the dull obscurity of poverty and m This is crushing to the eager wish, and snubs the pa as does the sudden bit, the spurred and rampant ste Covetous appetites are planted in our nature, and up to madness, by being doomed to drudge like bread before the transparent gates of Paradise.

All the curse on man would seem in this to be fulf reason bids restless poverty repine no more, but lis fretful murmurs of this opulent and idle neighbor his listless days and sleepless nights, his hunger and sated thirst, his vacant eye, and ear, and thought ending eagerness for something new; his torturing to his innate humiliation for his useless existence, his shame to hear the clamorous shouts of free and m scoffing his effeminate imbecility; his pampered fram

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