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Collectanea.
TEN RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN P RACTICAL LIFE . —1 . Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day . 2 . Never trouble others for what you can do yourself . This will promote your independence . 3 . Never spend your money before you have it . This will save you many difficulties and some temptations . 4 . Never buy what you do not want , because it is cheap . Many have been ruined by this . 5 . Pride costs no more than hunger , thirst , or cold . Banish it your
heart . G . Never have to repent of having eaten too little . Temperance is health . 7 . Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly . If you would lighten labour , love it . 8 . How much pain have those evils cost us which never happened ! Wait , then , till trials come . 9 . Take things always by their smooth handle . Make the most of mercies , and do not exaggerate trials . 10 . When angry , count ten before you speak ; if very angry , a hundred . He that does this will save himself much sin and many sorrows .
VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS . —Happiness is the use or exercise of virtue in good fortune . The good man , therefore , is not of necessity happy , hut the happy man is of necessity good . The bad man must needs be at all times unhappy , whether he have or whether he want the materials of external fortune ; for if he have them he will employ them ill . — Archytas .
DOING GOOD . —How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good , whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness ! Dr . Johnson used to say , " He who waits to do a great deal of good at once , will never do any . " Good is done by degrees . However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good , a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance , even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments . —Crabbe . CAUTION AGAINST IMPIETY . — " Can we pray to Him as all-wise and good , whose name we use in our worst moments of folly apd anger ? "
IDEAL OF YOUTH AND JOY . —Of all that I have lost on earth of youth and joy , I regret nothing so much as the loss of the ideal I had formed of all . —Sterne . BLASPHEMOUS OATHS . — " There are no oaths in the Choctaw tongue , and when an Indian swears , he can only employ English expressions of profanity !" THE CHINESE FABLE OF THE CREATION . —The rationalists have
penetrated furthest into the Dsedalian mystery of this cosmogony , and they go on to show what Pvvanku did , and how he did it . They picture him holding a chisel and mallet in his hands , splitting and fashioning vast masses of granite , floating confusedly in space . Behind the openings his powerful hand has made , are seen the sun , moon , and stars , monuments of his stupendous labours , and at his right hand , inseparable companions of his toilsbut whose generation is left in obscurity
, , stand the dragon , the phoenix , and the tortoise , and sometimes the unicorn ; divine types and progenitors with himself of the animal creation . His efforts were continued eighteen thousand years , and by small degrees he and his work increased ; the heavens rose , the earth spread out and thickened , and Pwanku grew in stature , each of them six feet every day , till , his labours done , he died for the benefit of his handiwork . His head became mountains , his breath wind and clouds ,
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Collectanea.
TEN RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN P RACTICAL LIFE . —1 . Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day . 2 . Never trouble others for what you can do yourself . This will promote your independence . 3 . Never spend your money before you have it . This will save you many difficulties and some temptations . 4 . Never buy what you do not want , because it is cheap . Many have been ruined by this . 5 . Pride costs no more than hunger , thirst , or cold . Banish it your
heart . G . Never have to repent of having eaten too little . Temperance is health . 7 . Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly . If you would lighten labour , love it . 8 . How much pain have those evils cost us which never happened ! Wait , then , till trials come . 9 . Take things always by their smooth handle . Make the most of mercies , and do not exaggerate trials . 10 . When angry , count ten before you speak ; if very angry , a hundred . He that does this will save himself much sin and many sorrows .
VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS . —Happiness is the use or exercise of virtue in good fortune . The good man , therefore , is not of necessity happy , hut the happy man is of necessity good . The bad man must needs be at all times unhappy , whether he have or whether he want the materials of external fortune ; for if he have them he will employ them ill . — Archytas .
DOING GOOD . —How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good , whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness ! Dr . Johnson used to say , " He who waits to do a great deal of good at once , will never do any . " Good is done by degrees . However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good , a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance , even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments . —Crabbe . CAUTION AGAINST IMPIETY . — " Can we pray to Him as all-wise and good , whose name we use in our worst moments of folly apd anger ? "
IDEAL OF YOUTH AND JOY . —Of all that I have lost on earth of youth and joy , I regret nothing so much as the loss of the ideal I had formed of all . —Sterne . BLASPHEMOUS OATHS . — " There are no oaths in the Choctaw tongue , and when an Indian swears , he can only employ English expressions of profanity !" THE CHINESE FABLE OF THE CREATION . —The rationalists have
penetrated furthest into the Dsedalian mystery of this cosmogony , and they go on to show what Pvvanku did , and how he did it . They picture him holding a chisel and mallet in his hands , splitting and fashioning vast masses of granite , floating confusedly in space . Behind the openings his powerful hand has made , are seen the sun , moon , and stars , monuments of his stupendous labours , and at his right hand , inseparable companions of his toilsbut whose generation is left in obscurity
, , stand the dragon , the phoenix , and the tortoise , and sometimes the unicorn ; divine types and progenitors with himself of the animal creation . His efforts were continued eighteen thousand years , and by small degrees he and his work increased ; the heavens rose , the earth spread out and thickened , and Pwanku grew in stature , each of them six feet every day , till , his labours done , he died for the benefit of his handiwork . His head became mountains , his breath wind and clouds ,