The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-02-24
MISTAKES OF THE RICH.
FROM THE FRENCH.

The Egyptian King, who, swollen with grand
eur, ordered colossal staircase built TO his new
palace, discovered TO his chagrin, when it was
completed, that he required ladder to get from
one step to the other. He had forgotten that
Kings legs, after all, short as a beggar's.
AggrandiZe as we may, the limits of our senses
check us mlserably at every moment. You call
yourself proprietor! Houses and pictures out.
live you, and after taking your will of them for
short time, you are carried out of your own
door, feet Foremost, never again to enter it
"Proprietors" you were, perhaps, of farms and
castles, estates and mountains-but now YOU
own nothing but hole in the ground, SIX feet by
two!
The artist who visits your gallery while YOU
live and own it, enjoys it more than YOU. You
are rich enough 10 dine twenty -four times dav
but you must eat sparingly to enjoy dining even
once. Your cellar is full of exquisite wines. but
you can only drink one bottle yourself, and. to
heiP you use your store, you are obliged to call
around you friends, relatives, parasites-a little
world who live upon your substance, and who
instead of gratitude, are likelier TO make Won a
return in envy. You have thirty horses in vour
stable; you cannot mount but one-ride alter hut
two to four.
10 be truly rich, one should have stomashs in
proportion to the number OF dinners he could at
ford, senses excluded according to stock in b.nk
sextuple vigor and sensbhty to concentrate and
return all the love he could proptiate with oifts
AT the close of his lite the richest man has hard
ly spent more upon his own employment Than tho
poor man. He has eaten twice dav. SILENT in =
bed alone or with one wife, and the poor MAJ,
can do as much and the proprietor scarcely
more
Rothschild is forced to content himself with tho
same sky as the poor newspaper writer, and The
great banker cannot order private sunset nor add
one ray to the magni6cence OF the NIGHT Tho
same air swells all lungs. The same hind If
blood fills all veins. Each one posses. renlJ, IN.
ly his own thoughts and his own senses Sonl
and body-these all the property W bicb a
man completely owns.
I'LL that IS valuabLe in this ,pord is tn he bod
for nothing. Genius beauty and love. are NOT
bought and sold. You may buy rich bracaIet
but not a well turned arm on which to wear -
pearl necklace, but not a pearly throat with
which it shall vie. The richest banker nm ear,h
would vanly offer his fortune to be able to write
verse like Byron One comes info tho ,vonl5
naked and goes out naked. The difference in tbo
tneness OF bit of linen for shroud is mot much
Man Is handful oil clay which turns randi,
back again to dust, and which is compelled nioht
iy to relapse into the nothingness of sepn ~ ~.
strength to commence life again on the norra f.
In tfls lie, so partaken by annihlaton Dhot
Is there that is real 1t is our sleeping o. 10y
Waklng-our dreaming or our thought n ~
ARISE 10 the more valuable lite) when we 90 -
ped' or go to bed when we arise Nol s. ~
70 proprietor Or he owns but the bre,,h ~ :.
traVerses his lips, and the idea as it flitq
mind And even the idea often belonra aV 30 MS
other.-Hsme Journul ~ ah'