Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-03-30
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From the Trenton Emporium
LOOK OUT AHEAD.
"The seaman, on a dangerous sea,
Looks out ahead, and wise is he.''

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But there is no less NECESSITY for look
ing out ahead on the land than on the
sea.--We are all embarked on a voy-
age-all have to pass through variety
of dangers-have mislortunes of various
kinds to avoid--and this requires, gen.
orally, only the constant exercise of the
gifts of prudence and foresight which we
naturally possess. | say we must keep
these faculties in exercise, for great
deal more than half the ills we suffer
are the offspring of our imprudeDce and
Incidence, not of uncomfortable misior-
tunes.
By looking out ahead, I simply mean,
acting with a prudent reference TO COM
ing time making all necessary provis-
ions for the fuiure-and leaving as little
as possible to the mere chance of what
is called LUCK! For there are those
who do none of these things-who learn
not the lesson of the ant, to lay up,
while the sun shines, stores for wintry
day--and CLEAN not from the busy bee
the wisdom TO provide plentiful home
against the days when the season for
making this provision shall be past
The world is full of misery, but not
more full Of misery, than of folly.
1t well becomes the youth who is
setting out in life, surrounded by cir
Gle of gay companions, and often tempt
ed to the place of revelry and dissipa-
ton, to look out dhead--to remember
what is said most truly Of the power of
habit--to reflect on the consequences of
an irregular life--to look to the preci-
pice TO which it leads--to call before his
mind those ghostly monitors which have
passed in poverty, in contempt, in sorrow,
to hopeless end, the victims of intern
perance or crime-to pause-to ponder
to resolve Alright
Nor less does ii become him who has
just set his feet upon the active stage of
business, having arrived at manhood, to
look out ahead He has a character for
industry, and punctuality, and honesty,
to establish, which are Of vital impor-
tauce 20 his future welfare. He has al
so 10 establish those rules for the man
agement Of his business by which, prob
ably, he will fall or rise for careless
method of transacting these matters,
once allowed, and, ten 10 one, things
grow worse and worse-the evil is in.
creased instead of being remedied.
The girls and boys, too, who get into
the old fashioned iotion that they must
get married, as their fathers and mothers
did, ought by all means TO look out a.
head.-The times especially call for it
now, though in all times it is necessary.
Our young gentlemen are some times
dissipated-our young ladies sometimes
extrayagant, and too much given 10
pride and Incidence. These should all
be old bachelors and maids; they would
only be a torment 10 their partners If
they got them. Care should be taken
TO avoid these. TheKthere should be
a unison of feeling, conformity of taste,
suitableues Of temper, and an affec-
ton founded on merit; otherwise there
can he no happiness in marriage-for
as saith Peter Pindar--
" Oh matrimony thou art like
s'To Jeremiah's figs;
Z" The good were rery good-the bad
"Too sour TO give the pigs"
In fne--it becomes all men to look
ont ahead THE man whose polar star
is ambition, should so temporize his thirst
for glory, as that disappointment take
him unawares, and bring not sorrow
with it. The politician should beware
J that TO present passion he sacrifice not