The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-10-09
MORAL COURAGE IN EVERY DAY LIFE

Have the courage to discharge a debt while
you nave the money in your pocket. Have the
courage to do without that what you do not need.
however much you admire it. Have the cour-
age to speak your mind, when it is necessary that
you should do so, and to hold your tongue when
it is better that you should be silent. Have the
courage to speak to friend in .seedy' coat,
even In the street, and when a rich one is nigh
the effort IS less than many people take it to be-
and the act is worthy of king have the cour-
age 10 set down every penny you spend and add
ltup weekly. Have the courage to pass your
hosts lackey at the door, without giving him a
shilling, when you know yeu cannot afford it
and what's more, that the man has not earned it.
Have the courage to own that you are poor, and
you disarm poverty of her sharpest sting. Have
the courage to tell your personal defects, and the
world Will be deprived of that pleasure by being
remedled OF their own. Have the courage to adj
NIT that they have been in the wrong, and YOU
VIII remove the fact from the mind of others, put
ung desirable impression in the place of an un-
favorable one. Have the courage to adhere to
hrst resolution when you cannot change it for
better, and to abandon it at the eleventh hour up
on conviction. Have the courage TO acknowledge
your age to-day and compare it with the average
HE OF man. Have the courage to make a will
ana what Is more, a just one. Have the courage
to face difficulty, lest it kick you harder than
you bargain for ; difficulties like thieves. often
ulSdPPedr al glance. Have the courage to avoid
accommodation bills, however badly YOU want mon
ey and decline pecuniary assistance from your
dearest friend. Have the courage to shut your
eyes al the prospect of large profits and to be con-
tent with small ones. Have the courage to tell
man why you will not lend him your money:
he Will respect you more than if YOU tell him YOU
can't Have the courage to cut the most agree
aple acquaintance you possess, when heconync,
es you that he lacks principle sa friend should
bear with friend sinfirmites-not his vices
Have the courage to show your preference for
honesty. IN whatever guise it appears and YOUR
contempt for vice surrounded by attractions
Have the courage to give, occasionally, that
which you can i'll afford to spare giving what
you do not want nor value, neither brings nor
deserves thanks in return who is grateful for a
drink OF water from another's overlooking well
however delicious the draught? Have the cour-
! age to wear your old clothes until you can paw
Tor new ones. Have the courage to obey YOUR
Maker at the risk OF icing ridicued by man.
Have the courage to WIN Slick boots in winter,
ana 10 INSIST upon your and daughters doing
/ the IKE. Have the courag to - knowledge ig-
norance OF every kind every dy will immedi-
ately doubt you, and more credit than any false
| pretenslons could secure. Have the cou ge to
! prefer propriety to fashon-one is but the abuse
OF the other. Have the courage to listen to your
wife when you should do So and not to listen
when you should not. TThis applies to husbands. I
Have the courage to provide frugal dinner for a
friend whom you ssdelight to honor" Have the
courage to throw your snuf-box in the fire or the
melt-pot; to pass tobacconists shop and to de-
cine the use OF a friends box, or even one pinch
Have the courage to be independent if you can
and actlndependently when you may.