The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-07-20
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From the Richmond Compiler.l
CHEERFULNESS.,

Burton has written celebrated work
on the Anatomy Of Melancholy. Why
cannot we have parallel treatise CD
Cheerfulness !?
A cheerful temper is the greatest
blessing in the world.
II was such a temper, which views
every object on its brightest side, that
David Hume pronounced to be worth
thousand pounds year.
The springs of happiness and misery
reside more in the mind than any where
else
You hear one man say, /" how warmth
is to-day"-another 8 how cold it is."-
The temperature is the same--the men
When a muu is happy, he is apt TO
think all others SO. When man is mis-
cradle he is disposed to believe the
same of all others.
IL is very amusing to hear the same
man say yesterday, how hard THE
TIMES ARE"-and to-day, "the times are
easier" The only reason is, they are
easier or harder, as relates to himself.
! Yesterday he was dunned, or was puz-
zled to buy dinner-to-day he has
money in his pocket, and may laugh at
the world.
When mans head turns round, he
conceives every thing round him TO be
turning.
There is a jaundice ofthe mind, which
causes every idea TO assume its usual
hue.
| Ifa cheerful temper be worth thou
sand a year, the cheapest way 10 be hap
Ply, the easiest way to be rich, is to have
such temper.
How many indulgencies, Iuxuries,
even coDVeniencies, could we dispense
with. if we were only blessed with this
temper. tits meat and drink and cloth.
lng A man with it is happier when
clothed in rags, than the DISCONTINUED
Cresus, who is arrayed in purple anl
fine linen. 1t is money in bank TO I
lnan--ior though he may have little
money. be does not want much. HI
makes the most of every thing he has
He is the true Economist, for he econo
mizes all the means ofhappiness.
Therefore, instead of saying to you
son g get money, get money"-tell hin
be cheerful look at every thing OIL
, The bright sin, and rouse yourself from
, the ennui which would devour YOU"
, Too much care turns the young man grey,
And too much care turneth the old man to clay
The truth Of the song is better thar
, its metre.
Il A cheerful temper communicates itsel
to all around you. Itdrives away iron
your own bosom the ill passions OF envy
hatred, devouriug ambition, pale face,
avarice, and the "green-eyed mouster.'
Il Whether it depends upon tempera
{ ment or habit or exertion, this is certain
that cheerlulness seldom agrees will
idleness. A man must be employed
! his mind must be occupied to a certain
J extent by some active pursuit--or h
} ibecomes dissatisfied, and he pTeys upol
, himself.
"Give me [said man the other da,
( in fit of spleen) give me something i
l do, that may have something to atten
I TO besides my sensations. They are pain
full and corroding and want somethin,
TO drown the sense of them"
Thompson, in his seasons, has advise
, employment for the sofiening passion Z
!, Love Employment Employment! I'm
I pIoynent! like the Orators action, is
: cure or a relief for the most of the mala
dies Of the mind. They are many {
them giants to appearance but fling
sloGe at them, and the monster dies.