Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1848-08-24

be thus reduced. If the action of serving a
man, not in the way he wishes to be served
De carried to certain length, it becomes
tyranny, not benefcence; an exercise OF
power Tor the satisfaction Of the sef-regard-
ing affections. not an act o. benifcence for
the qualification of the sympathetic or social
afiec'lons.-Jeremy Bentham.
lHE more we are destitute of opportuni-
ties for indulging our feelings, as is the case
when we live in uncongenial society, the
more we are apt to crisp and harden our out
ward manner, 10 save our real feelings from
exposure. Thus believe that some of the
most delicate minded men get to appear
thoroughly coarse, from their unsuccessful
efforts to mask their real nature. And
have known men disagreeably forward from
their shyness. But doubt whether man
does not suffer from habit of sef-conslran,,
and whether his feelings do not become real
~, as well as apparently, chilled. 1t is an
immense blessing to be perfectly calIous to
rIdcule; or, which comes to the same thing,
TO be conscious thoroughly that what we
have IN us of noble and delicate, is not rid-
culous to any but fools; and that, if fools
will laugh, wise men will do we'll 10 lei
them.-.4rnold.
JEALoUsY.-Jealousy is that pain which
man feels from the apprehension that he
Is not equally beloved by the person whom
he entirely loves. Now, because our in
ward passions and incIinations can never
make themselves visible, it is impossible for
a jealous man to be thoroughly cured Of his
suspicious. His thoughts hang at best in a
state Of doubtiulness and uncertainty, and
are never capable of receiving any satisfac-
IIon on the advantageous side, SO that his
inquiries are most successful when they dis
cover nothing. His pleasure arises from his
disappoinments, and his lie is spent in the
pursuit of a secret that destroys his happi
ness if he chance to find it,
IT is not true that the world hates pietv.
The modest and unobtrusive piety which
fills the heart with all human charities, and
makes man gentle TO others and severe to
himself, is an object of universal love and
veneration. But mankind hate the lust of
power, when it is velled under the garb of
piety; they hate can,ing and hypocfisy :;
t@ey hate advertisers and quacks in piety !;
they do not choose TO be insulted they
love to tear folly and impudence from the
altar, which should only be sanctuary for
the wretched and the good.
EVERY soul, i, cannot be doubted, bears
within itself a treasure Of sadness. And it
is even a condition of our nature that always.
amidst our brightest joys, there flows, min
gled, something sorrowful. as with song
OF JOY, distant murmur, an ill-s,fed sigh.
One would say that the very noise of our
joy goes and wakens up from the bottom Of
our soul slumberIng grief; one would say
that the feeling of our wretchedness waits
that very moment 10 seize and clasp US, and
that the fires lighted up in our night seem
as signals to the phantom.
NOTHING hinders the constant agreement
of people who live together, bu, mere vanity
"a secret insisting upon what they think
their dignity or merit. and inward expecta-
tlon OF such an overmeasure Of Difference
and regard as answers to their own extrava-
giant false scale, and which nobody can pay,
because none bu. themselves can tell readi-
ly to what pitch it tamounts.-Pope.
Thousands of houses would be happy to-
morrow, if this passage were written in let
tiers of gold over the man,lepiece, and the
offenders could have the courage to apply it
to lhemselves.-Leigh Hunt.
How TO EDUCATE CHlLDREN.-I was
once present when an old mother, who had
brought mp large family Of children with
eminent success, was asked by young one
what she would recommend in The case of
some children who were too anxiously ed
and her reply was, 81 think, my
dear, little wholesome neglect .''-Ibid.
FRIENDSHIP IS seldom truly tried but in
extremes. To find friends when we have
no need of them, and to want them when
we have, are both alike easy and common
Felktam.
Truth AND FIcTioN.-The Archbishop of