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we nave always believed that the worla
YIELDS great deal moro JOY than il cets
Sreoit Tor Thinking SO little as it certainly
qoes, = ought to afford perfect elysium !.
How lew people think, and how well those
tnat DO, know the cost. One grataitous al.
wee Is, think as little as possible Sofrow
ana thought are akin to each other. ard the
marks OF each on the eountenanoe are tbe
same. We shall never forget the remark 81
one young lady to another in our hear;ng
once " You should never think, ii makes
kyeu look old.n To complete the advice she
( ought to have added, j" Tou should never he
sorrovful, for it makes you think
Sorrow IS the well Of thought. and when
you descend, the mind isimmersstl n \ n,,l.
titude Of ideas that impress themselves in.
deilbiy upon it. The ideas of gaietv mass
by like visions; they are merely the sallies
OF wit and humor; meteors that Glance a.
cross the armament of the mind and dis.n.
pear for ever But thoughts that are lin.
died IN the atmosphere of sorrow. are ner.
manent and solemn la their movement
1hey abide your inspection, though thew
paf1e your pursuit They are beacons that
blink on the cold, dark horizon. to remind
you OF the dangers that await you-stars
that may tell you what light is, but are vet
TOO feeble, TO cast even a shadow on vanr
path. In this state of isolation, with no
OBJECTIVE world of details to centemplate
you naturally retreat to the subjective world F
OF imagination within. The souI is oblioed
70 fali back on ITSELF and travel alone
through Its vast variety of untried being
Sorrow is the night of the mind What #
Wonld be day without its night? The day
reveals the sun only; the night brings to i
light the whole universe. This analogy is
complete-sorrow is the armament Of tbongbt
ana the school of intelligence In sadness
sources of faith and hope spring
up. When the poet lived with his iIieb.
land Mary" be thought of life and Mary n.
lone BUT when at length Mary was taken
rom HIM, he began to think more deeply,
and looking upward, exclaimed
~0h Mary dear departed shade,
Where IS thy place Of peaceful restl4a
And his joys fled to follow vision in the s
rackless realms of ether.
indeed, SO very thoughtfuliy disposed is1 ,,
srief, that 1t gives precocity Of understand
ne, to the young The want of bread
makes the children of the poor intensely
mink OF the means of procuring it. The
.oung outoasts Of civilization are all preco,
Ious IN intellect, and more than matches for t
helr rich coeyals, in devising original /
ehemes, and reducing them to practice i
or ne who walks on smooth road has no v
ccas,on to, look to, his steps but he who l
rayels amid stones- aaal- a
The clouds. or the landscape. And what h
i'll he think when he looks to the heavens !
S he an artist2 He will think perhaps of 4
presenting the sunset on canvass and the =
lere circle of the sun he may draw in al
lost an instant But to represent its glo-
ious radiation-that is the dificult-and
here is the thought and its energy employed r
making at the same time on his counte- Il
apce the lines of anxiety. Were there no r
ificulty there would be no occasion for i
bought, and, therefore, there would be n
one; for nature produces only that which
wants.
He, therefore, who would be a deep think, q
r. must become acquainted with grief. and t
difficulties of every description. Some of {
hose difficulties are distributed among men,
nd some are common to all But every t
nan who thinks has his full share Of them, Q
Sorrow may endure for season, but Joy I
,ometh with the morn4n Though for the J
mere sake of the latter, we need never Dor !
.ow the former for nature has imprinted !
he mark Of immortality on the eeuntenance
IF ioy, in the full eye and sllobserTant look,
with which it greets all that approaches
Sorrow is particular and special, joy is gen 2
eral and universal-the one is temporal, the
other is eternal l--Pubtit Sentiment.
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