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FROM THE HOLY PROPHET _ 26. Labor sot after riches first, and think thou wilt afterwards ~ enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart while the warnor new not that it was coming; eo shall his life be taken away, before he tnoweth that he hath it. . What then is life, that man should desire it? What, breathing, that he should covet it? 28. Is it not & scene of delusion, a series of misadventures, @ pursuit of evils linked on all sides together? In the deginning, it is ignorance, pain is in its middle; and its end is sorrow. As one wave pusheth evil to evil, in the life of man; the greater and the present swallow up the lesser and the past. Our terrors are real evils; our expectations look forward into impossibilities. a 30. Fools, to dread as mortals, and to desire as if immortal! ; 31. What part of life is it that we should wish to remain with us? Is it youth? Can we be in love with outrage, licentiousness, and temerity ? Is it age? Then we are found in infirmities. 32. It is said, grev hairs are revered, and length of days im honor. Virtue can add reverence to the bloom of youth; and without it, age plants more wrinkles in the soul than on the forehead. 33. Is age respected because it hateth riot? What justice is in this, when it is not age that despiseth pleasure, but pleasure that despiseth age. 34. Be virtuous while thou are young, so shal! thine age be honored. ~ 1, Inconstancy is powerful in the heart of man; Intemperance + © swayeth it whither it will; Despair engrosseth much of it; and Fear _. proclaimeth: “Behold, I sit unrivalled therein,” but Vanity is beyond them: all. ; 2. Weep not therefore at the calamities of the human state; rather laugh at its follies. In the hands of the man addicted to vanity, life then +i, © is but ‘the shadow of a dream. “= a ‘ 3. The hero, the most renowned of human character, what is be, ‘but the bubble of this weakness. The public is unstable and ungrateful. Why should the man of wisdom endanger himself with fools? - 4. The man who neglecteth his present concerns, to revolve how he will behave when greater, feedeth himself with wind, while his bread is eaten by another. . ol: 5. Act as becometh thee in the present station, and in more exalted ones thy face shall not be ashamed. mo. 6. ° What blindeth the eye, or what hideth the heart of a man from himself, like Vanity? Lo, when thou seest not thyself, then others dis- cover thee, most plainly. ec, 7. As the tulip, that is gaudy without smell, conspicuous without use; so is the man who sitteth himself up so high, and hath not merit.