The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-08

gazers and as such, would do we'll to profit by
tne exclamation of the old lady above quoted.
ny attending to it they would often save them
serves infinite trouble and vexatious NORTH
cation.
Those who are constantly looking into the
actions OF their neighbors, calculating their
prohts, losses, and prospects, negIecting their
own business, are star-gazing they are attend
ing 10 things beyond their sphere, and will be
extremely fortunate if their own affairs do not
ge' entanged in difficulty, and they finally
brought to their senses, by being suddenly plung-
ca IN The ditch of public reprobation, and
smeared with the mud of their own tattling in
quisitiveness.
. lie who devotes his time to politics, neglect
Fhg ms business TO advance the interest of
parry Tor mere party purposes, talking loudly in
nVerns and grog-shops of the great interests of
NE country, and railing at moral men who are
iosent, and at morality in general, while his
y de and family are starving or freezing at
no'he'is star-gazng he is talking of things he
does not understand, and medding with affairs
LOOK to his own standing, and attend to his own
business, OF he will suddenly find himselfin the
ditch OF detestation for his course, in Jail for
MS debts, and his family drawing the means Of
a scanty subsistence from the town.
Inc young man who associates with dssi-
pated companions for the purpose of enjoying
their mlrth and wit, fondy expecting his own
morals Will not be corrupted and his good name
ruined by ms associates, is star-gazing, and ten
TO one vii! sooner or later find himself plunged
IN the ditch of misery as deep, if not deeper,
than his companions.
The man who expects to reform the public
by declalmlng against vice, while his examples
90 not coincide with his precepts, is entitled to
the reputation Of a star-gaZer; and will find
that the public consider him deeply sunk in the
ditch of hypocrisy and deception.
he who expects to get fortune by specula-
ton without ind s'fy and economy, either in
trade or by .oirr !, will eventually find that
by his star-gazing plans he has lost the good he
might have securci and plunged into the ditch
OF poverty and idlehess. Few gain in this way,
and sudden gains arc seldom spent sparingly.
When man resolves to continue the use of
intoxicating liquors, imagining he is in no
danger OF becoming dissipated because he
drinks but little, he is in great danger of STUN
bling into the ditch OF drunkenness. No man
was ever born drunkurd, therefore look out
tor temperate drinkers.
The man who imagines his own knowledge
moro valuable than that obtained by any one
else, or his profession and pursuits more honor
able and useful to the community than those of
others, Is star-gazer kind of comet in the
literary world, and may well be suspected of
having taken plunge in the ditch of pride
and self-importance
He who thinks to revolutionize the world,
and reform all its follies and hard-heartedness
by his own unaided efforts, and imagines de-
is equal to sound argument and
solld reasoning, is star-gazer, and will be very
likely, when he finds that public reformation is
a progressive work, to be brought ABOUT only
by unfemitted and arduous exertons, to fall
into the ditch of melancholy and discontent-
He had better show by his own life and CONVEX
sation that public reform is practicable; that
others may be induced to copy his example. d.
The editor who thinks to enrich himself
and gain the applause of the public without
spending wearsome days and watchful nights
in ardnous labors, or who has an idea he can
please all his readers, is star-gazer: he will
find himself deeply immersed in the ditch of
and not unfrcquently bedaubed
with the curses of those he has been most So
licitous to please. In short, stars of all kinds
are twnklng in every direction, and it is not
to be wondered at that almost all men should
employ themselves in gazing at them. The
stars OF ambition, of fame, of wealth. of learn
ing, of power, and of infidelity, have all had
their gazers, who, while intent on admirinr
their lustre have plunged into bitches of trou
BILE, distress, and despair. One star alone,
never led its gazer into difficulty; and though
many have followed its light through rugged
paths and thorny mazcs, its lustre has been
sufficient to dispel the surrounding darkness,
and reveal the pits and snares in the path of
life. The light Of this star is never uncertain,
but will lead all its followers to life everlast-
ing ;-it is the STAR OF BETHLEHEM