The North-Carolina standard., 1841-08-18
VOL. VINO. 1855.

that all the mysteries of universal and iIIimitabe
nature have been sounded-its depths and shoals
been distinctly recognized or it's nice proportions
settled beyond caVils The field is yet wide, the
prospect as varied, the prize as glorious, and
the need as immortal to successive pioneers in
the boundless regions Of the intellectual and NOR,
al world. Hesitate not-proceed with cautious
but unerring step to win the respect and esteem
OF poraries-bequeath to your children a.
name they may reverence, and to your country
a memory that it may be proud to cherish
| Every member OF a community is in debt to the
aggregate mass. His infancy and youth have
been protected from violence by The bonds of cir
vilIaw; ease and security have permitted him
TO cultivate those powers whose growth and ma.
turty should yield harvest to protect age and
innocence. How lost then to all manly virtue,
how dead to the vibrations of noble sentiment is
he who can madly forego such exalted prospects
for the mere qualification OF momentary i'm.
pulse, or the appetites of depraved sense At
present perhaps none can expect to increase
greatly the sum Of human learn:ng-but forget
not that the ocean itself consists of particles,
which, though severaIly Insignificant, when uni7
led overwhelm the stoutest ship that was ever
manned.
To acquire all that is desirable remember
that diligence, integrity and truth, are alone ne,
cessary. The name Of Shakespeare has been OF.
| IL
fairs Of men, which taken at the food leads on
10 fortune" 1t resembles much the notion of
Epicures, that earth and all other substances
consist of PARTICLES which chance has mingled
together; to admit which, would be as idle as
that the most cet brateG code of laws was invent.
ed by the fortuitous mixture Of the alphabet If
you should begn with such impressions, all ef.
fort will be labor lost. Pin YOUR Leliefto the
faith of no man, not even that of the great Shake
speare himself Remember that time is repre-
sented with hair on the forehead and bald behind,
to intimate that he who is ambitious of fame
must seize it by the forelock. Lei not then the
lust of ambition, avarIGe and power, occupy the
soul-=let not these 6ends and foes 10 human ha ..
piness gain the mastery-=Iet them not become
settled habits, but impeIled by more exalted mo-
liVes run the race OF virtuous competition. The
world WIDE and various is spread before you,
| to become notorious as partlZnn is easy, but to
be really great and arduous. He who rules n
party is very much like the stately ship which
is supported by the waves of old ocean, without
any selfeXertion But recolIect that as the pel-
| Ity craft which plumbers some coastwise village,
rides the Wages as well as the gallant bark, SO
The driveller OF an hour may excite 6tfu no.
tofiety. Strict truth and stern unbending nteg-
rty In all the transactions OF life are necessary to
ensure success. TheFe is no friend who can
yield aid SO powerful, assistance so cfeclual,
With these you need not dread an army of fops
without them al endeavor will be fruilless The
goddess OF truth is properly represented without
armor. LIT the garment which you wear be as
spotess as that of any man who walks the earth
I-as stainless as that which clothed the eremite
OF old. Never couQtenance even q slight depar.
ture from those rules of decorum whiah custom
has prescribed. He who assumes merit from O.
reckless indifference 10 the opinions OF society,"
may perhaps hear warm professions of oftriendshin
from his unworthy associates bu, it will be ruera
1POfeSsion for tho
each other is it that he will lose sooner or lateT
the gid1y applause OF even his youthful play.
mates. 1t IS lmporan Mt 10 be thought man Of
integrity that we are prone 10 ieign what do
not possess The man that reveres virtue and re-.
commends its practice, often. know. f1atters
himself into the be lief OF Rraccing IT while pay-
ling no homage at her shrine. whrn ia contraGic=
ion to his appetite or ambition. Controlled hy
caprice or selfshness, vices and passion dispute
the empire over his mind. while he vainly sup=
poses himself above suspicion because protesting
that which his actions beiie But men af thS
highest address and the deepest cunning, cannot
always CONCEAL their own deformieS even by in.
discriminate accusation and vehement suspicion
of others. Each of these devices and every sub
ferfuge however degrading to proper self-cstee1R
are seized on for the purpose of deceiving others
under the pretence of despising crime, with the
hope to partake its pleasures without incurring
the penalty. The guilty wretch, whose life has
been but one scene Of pain, suffering and remorsp,
is often more desirous to blind the gaze of
neighbor than to quiet the admoni!ions of cons
science. The approving whisper of reason and
compliance with the demands of duty. he is
anxious to obtain though not at the sacrifice of
his lusts. 10 stlfle every sense Of propriety and
dream away life OF voluptuous ease now be-
comes paramount object. and hence every
phantasy is conjured, every meanness resorred to
and every chimera of diseased Imagination is
summoned TO satisfy the inward craving, till the
poor victim ceases 10 breathe. His last Struggle
was to oppose the God who created him. aud his
last effort TO drown the intellectual spirt.
! An L99xt10Ordinarv Reseue.-The New York