The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1849-04-14
Mistakes Of the Rich.

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The Egyptian king. swollen with hisp9
grandeur, ordered colossal staircase
built TO his new palace, but discovered =
to his chagrin, when It was completely
that he required ladder 10 get from
one step to another. He had forgotten.
that a king legs, after all. were as short
as beggar's. Aggrandize as we may,
the limits of our senses check US nisef-i
ably at every moment. You call your
self proprietor! House and pictures
outllve you, and after taking your will
Of them for a short time, you are carr
ried out Of your own door feet fore-1
most, never again to enter it. NsPro.sl
prietors' you were, perhaps, OF farms p
and castles, estates and mountains -butq
now you own nothing but hole in the
ground six feet by two! ~ e5Ss' 's1sish
The artist. who visits your gallery
while you live and own il, enjoys itii
more than you. You are rich enough
to dine twenty.four times a day, but
you must eat sparingly to enjoy dining
even once. Your cellar is foil of exss
quisie wines, but YOU can drink only
one bottle yourself and, to help youe
use your store, you are obliged TO caltl
around your friends, relatives, para.s
sites--a little world who live upon yours
substances, and who, instead of grati-a
tude, are likeIer TO make you a returnq
in envy. You have thirty horses i'm
your stable; you can mount but one---t
ride after but two or four. 1905 notisssP
To be truly rich, one should ahavsi
stomachs in proporticn'to to the numbern
Of dinners he could afford, senses yex-)
tended according to stock in bank, ,sex-i
tuple vigor and sensibiity to concen.s
trate and return all the love he conlds
propitiate with gifts. At the close ofl
his life, the richest man has hardly
spent more upon his enjoyment than
tho poor man. He has eaten twice a.
day, slept in bed alone or with one
wife, and the poor can do as much andi
1the proprietor scarcely more.a giI1o5ss
Ro,hschild is forced 10 content shinsf
self with the. same sky as the peofo
newspaper writer ;>and the banker caru
not order private sunset nor add onei
ray to its magnifcence of the 7nighL--i
The same air swellsalIlungs. The same
kind Of blood fills all veins Each onei
possesses, really, only bis own thoughtss
and his own senses. Soul and body
these are all the property which manr
completely owns. slsb3fd giao 9ET
All Matis valuable in this ,oorld ist
to be had for nothing. Genius, beauty
and love are not to be bought and soId.i
You may buy rich bracelet,ab but notas
well-turned arm on which to wear it,,
a pearl necklace, butnot pearly, throat
with which it shall vie. The richest
banker on earth would offer his fortunes
TO be able 10 write verse like Byron
One comes into the world naked and
goes out naked. The differencesin the
ineness of a bit oflinen for shroud isl
not much. Man is handful Of clay
which turns rapidly back to dust, and
which is compelled nightly 10 relapse
into the nothingness of sleep, to get
strength to commence life again to-
morrow. 5tte+ ssDoH .lRaa
In this life SO partaken BY annihila-I
ton, what is there real! lsit oursleeP-
ing or our waking--our dreaming or
our thought? Do we arise 10 the more,
life) when we. 60 to bed, or 60
to bed when we arise? No!--man- is,
nc proprietor! orhe owns but the breath,
as it traverses his lips. and the idea as
it fits across bis mind. And even the
idea belongs to another. af' &, eirpa