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Show mm q. Men the cause of their own Misfortunes. In mingling with the bus multitude thatthrongs the theatre of life, and casting around us an observing ob-serving eve, we may glean many lessons of wisdom. wis-dom. Evi' examples abound and these are to be studied and avoided. Good ones .ire-aLso. to be found, and these Shtfuld ctfirfmand our imitation as well as admiration. We journev through a country so full of devious roads and winding paths, th-t sometime it i- diffirix't o determine which is the straightforward way, and we arc in danger of turning to the right hand or to the left very often, but the examples afforded by the history and con dition of others if properly studied, worth! generally general-ly prove finger-posts in doubtful cases to poinc us on the right road. We have little doubt tbat the exercise of a moderate mod-erate share of wisdom and prudence in, at least, nine cases out of ten, will enable us to escape most of the ills of life. Indeed, so satisfied are we that men are generally the cause of their own misfortunes, mis-fortunes, that wnencver we fee a poor half-starved- 1 looking soul wandering about with holes in his elVows and his toes peeping out of his shoes, we say to ourselves, ''that man has been Imprudent." "Perhaps, dishonest men have swindled him out of his wiiges.'1 Wc asli you, gentle reader, when you behold such a spectacle, to apply the test and sec whether you difler much from us in the conclusion. con-clusion. , ... o -c . |
